More augmented reality links…

Hope to be around for the convergence of augmented reality, wearable computing, and haptics…

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision (article)

“Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.”
University of Washington Office of News and Information

Haptic Laptop Installation (video from June 2006)

marbles appear to be loose in a laptop display

CNET: Novint Falcon (video)

new gaming device delivers tactile feedback (see also: Novint Falcon Haptics Controller)

Four Angry Men experience (video)

“Four Angry Men is a first-person immersive experience based on the American courtroom drama ‘12 Angry Men’. In this experience, participants see video-based virtual jurors through a head-mounted display and can switch between different points of view by physically moving between chairs.” Posted by Steven Dow, doctoral student in the Augmented Environments Laboratory of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing

Augmented Reality (video demos)

“Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data…most AR research is concerned with the use of live video imagery which is digitally processed and ‘augmented’ by the addition of computer-generated graphics. Advanced research includes the use of motion-tracking data, fiducial marker recognition using machine vision, and the construction of controlled environments containing any number of sensors and actuators.”
– Wikipedia

Physics and Augmented Reality – Part 1

AR demonstration of physics enabled interactivity; virtual spheres fall to – and bounce off of – an actual object on actual tabletop

Physics and Augmented Reality – Part 2

Similar to Part 1 video, manual interaction with a virtual car on a tabletop

Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Worspaces – extra

Demonstration of real-world image tracking for overlaying of virtual objects. (Research of Georg Klein)

Augmented Architecture

“Application of Augmented Reality in Architecture and Urban Space – Architecture thesis project by Quck Zhong Yi,” (in which a virtual Mario Brothers game is projected on an urban street.

Second Life as a Platform for Augmented Reality

AR using modified Second Life viewer which places a live SL avatar within the image of the real world

TOTAL IMMERSION

Link to video gallery for a company developing AR for theme parks and entertainment, events, retail, and mobile phone operators

Wearable technology in the news

Brain control headset for gamers (BBC)

“Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone. A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.”

Video glasses

“22Moo has unveiled a new range of video eyewear and Bluetooth accessories for Apple’s iPod and iPhone that includes a pair of sub-$200 35-inch video glasses…”

Integrated Circuits

“A wireless silicon monitor that can be worn like a Band-Aid and then thrown away. A chip that could become one of the first commercial retina replacements. A device that measures waveforms still being discovered deep within the brain.”

A metaverse looms

3pointD points to an article at ComputerworldUK describing a virtual world summit…

IBM is set to debate these issues on Friday at a virtual worlds event it is co-hosting with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge.

Among others, academics and companies including Toyota and PepsiCo are meeting, perhaps to explore a path toward interoperability standards according to Bob Sutor. In his series of posts describing his virtual world requirements, Sutor explains some of what is necessary for interconnected VR grids to allow for a user to travel between.

Video: Ray Kurzweil (May, ‘07)

Killer App Expo – Ray Kurzweil: Technology Evangelist

At the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ray Kurzweil gave the evening Keynote speech. … grabbed the entire keynote with house audio.

Applying technology of Second Life

Once before, in my short time in Second Life, have I seen the work of Kisa Naumova. Here is an extraordinary video of Kisa showing how she…

“…ran through a PHP script to extract the object info and convert it to something I could paste in a notecard. Then I made 11 objects (the little cubes in front of me in the video) that scoot themselves off to a predetermined location, spew out prims based on the notecards

Wow.

Interface-free, touch-driven computer screen

Wow. And this video is nearly a year old…

“Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen…(Duration: 09:32)”