Augmented And Virtual Reality To Hit $150 Billion, Disrupting Mobile By 2020

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/augmented-and-virtual-reality-to-hit-150-billion-by-2020/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook

New Augmented Reality Prototype Can Make Any Object A Touch-Sensitive Visual Display

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/augmented-reality-prototype-can-make-any-object-a-touch-sensitive-visual-display
http://www.geek.com/tablets/thermal-touch-can-turn-any-surface-into-a-tablet-1594779/

Get Fit This Year by Fleeing From Augmented Reality Zombies: Race Yourself Transforms Exercise Into a Game on Google Glass

http://press.raceyourself.com/tech.html

Augmented-reality contact lenses to be human-ready at CES

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57616459-76/augmented-reality-contact-lenses-to-be-human-ready-at-ces/

Japan tourist attraction uses digital penguins to increase visits

http://www.tnooz.com/penguin-japan-tourist-attraction

How the holographic gaming rig Valve didn't want aims to conquer the virtual world

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/22/4853888/castar-holographic-gaming-is-ready-to-face-the-world

castAR: bridging the physical world with the virtual worlds; 3D holographic like projections in AR, fully immersive environments in VR.

Depth-Sensing Cameras Head to Mobile Devices

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519546/depth-sensing-cameras-head-to-mobile-devices/

Adding 3-D sensors to existing and future mobile devices will enable augmented-reality games, handheld 3-D scanning, and better photography.

Virtual Reality Sandbox Shows The Movement Of Natural Terrain

http://www.psfk.com/2013/09/virtual-reality-sandbox.html

education uses w/AR

최근 AR 제품 소개

AR은 스마트폰의 확산과 함께 앱을 통해 다양한 분야에서 사용될 것으로 예상했는데 생각만큼 널리 사용되지는 않는 것 같다. 그 이유는 이용자가 쉽고 편리하게 그리고 유용하게 사용되어야 하는데, AR 테크는 아직까지 많은 한계를 지니고 있기 때문이다. AR을 활용하기 위해 AR 안에 정보가 코딩되어야 하고, 그 정보를 이용자가 쉽고 유용하게 사용해야 하는데, 충분한 정보를 제공하기에 많은 비용이 들고, 그 비용만큼 수익이 나올 수 있는 시장 환경이 되지 않으니 기껏 소개되는 AR 제품이라고 해봐야 유치한 단계의, 소비자의 관심을 끌지 못하는 것 뿐이다. 미래 사회를 보여주는 영상에서 가장 많이 소개되는 테크가 바로 AR인데 현재는 단지 컨셉 단계에만 머물고 있는 실정이다. 미래에 AR이 앱을 통해 어떻게 활용될지 보여주는 간단한 영화가 있다.

A short futuristic film "Sight"


콘택트 렌즈처럼 껴서 언제고 자기가 원하는 정보를 얻는다는 내용이지만, 이런 기술이 쉽사리 소개될 것 같지는 않다. 최근 google glasses를 통해 AR이 일부 적용될 것으로 보이지만, 매우 기본적인 단계일 것으로 예상한다.



이러한 한계에도 불구하고 몇몇 제품들은 눈길을 끌고 있기도 하다. 대부분 아이들을 대상으로 하기도 하지만, 성인들에게도 소구할만한 제품도 보인다.

여자 아이들을 대상으로 한 steady seller인 바비 인형과 공주놀이도 AR을 통해 그 인기를 유지할 수 있을지 모르겠다.

Barbie Digital Makeover Mirror


Mattel Disney Princess Ultimate Dream Castle


남자 아이들을 대상으로 한 게임도 있고...
Imaginext Apptivity Fortress



이런 놀이는 어른들도 재미있어 하지 않을까?
Sphero AR: Sharky the Beaver

교육용으로 꽤 쓸모있는 AR

PopAR Books "Planet 3D"


The Tokyo Shimbun: Share the Newspaper with Children



Nukotoys Tap Video



Golden-i Featuring Police Pro Application by Ikanos Consulting

일찌기 콘솔 게임에도 AR이 활용되었지만, 조만간 소개된 PS4에서는 더욱 더 많이 활용될 수 있을 것 같다. 

Media Molecule's PS4 Tech Demo



다른 미디어와 함께 사용해서 현실감을 증가시킬 수도 있다
Visual SyncAR breaks the fourth wall, brings TV content into your living room

이건 어른용...?@@? 흐흠...
the Virtualhumanoid



예술에서도 중요한 역할을 하는 AR
Urban Augmented Reality Full

앞으로 미디어 환경, 특히 비주얼은 UHD, 3D, 궁극적으로 hologram으로 진행되겠지만, AR은 현실과 가상의 혼재된(mixed) 경험을 부여한다는 점에서 나름의 위치를 차지할 것으로 생각한다.

Ikea’s augmented reality catalog will let you peek inside furniture

http://ispr.info/2012/08/07/ikeas-augmented-reality-catalog-will-let-you-peek-inside-furniture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ikeas-augmented-reality-catalog-will-let-you-peek-inside-furniture

Virtual Shoe Stores Uses Augmented Reality To Find Your Perfect Footwear

http://designtaxi.com/news/353110/Virtual-Shoe-Stores-Uses-Augmented-Reality-To-Find-Your-Perfect-Footwear/

With Augmented Reality, Wallit App Assigns Virtual Walls to Physical Places

http://mashable.com/2012/03/06/wallit-app/

Wallit App.
“People have wanted to leave their mark since the beginning of humanity,” says Veysel Berk, creator of the mobile app Wallit. “Now they are going to be able to do that digitally using their smartphones.”

'A living dream': The 'augmented reality' helmet that turns walk in the park into an encounter with alien creatures under a psychedelic sky

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2110286/Virtual-unreality-Hi-tech-VR-helmet-turns-walk-park-living-dream-world.html

The world as seen through the LifeClipper helmet - it mixes the 'real' as seen thorugh cameras with hallucinations created by computers

Trippy: Jan Torpus, director of lifeClipper project, tests his gear

Screenshots captured by users of the LifeClipper system show how the helmet adds dream-like visions to a normal view of the world

Sci-Fi-Infused Videos Show Off Keiichi Matsuda’s Vision of the Future

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/01/keiichi-matsuda/?pid=6053&pageid=91116

Augmented reality and virtual reality may be thought of as Hollywood visual effects more than real-world applications. However, with recent technological leaps in smartphones, videogames and motion tracking, augmented reality is coming off the screens of Minority Report and other sci-fi entertainment and into reality.

KINECT-POWERED AMUSEMENT PARK WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

http://news.discovery.com/tech/kinect-powered-amusement-park-120206.html

Visitors wear RFID wristbands so that Kinect sensors can distinguish their movements, faces and voices. They are encouraged to create an avatar of themselves so they can interact with the attractions.Holograms, 3D video and augmented reality technology are used to enhance visitors' virtual tour with an array of exhibits, such as:

How Augmented Reality Will Change Everything, Just Not Yet

http://www.fastcompany.com/1795437/augmented-reality-mobile-apps

AR has been around for decades, but nothing much happened on the consumer front until the late 90s when some genius figured out how to overlay the first-down line on the TV broadcast of football games. Today we have the capacity to make AR a household reality through smartphones, cameras, and location-sensing, but will we put it to good use?

LEGO® Life of George

Introducing LEGO® Life of George: the world's first interactive game combining real LEGO bricks with apps for your iPhone/iPod Touch.


Follow George around the world as he challenges you to a series of fun building tasks. Build as fast as possible, capture your model with your iPhone/iPod camera and get scored on your building skills.
 
gamification - becoming real...
 

How Augmented Reality Is Going Viral in the Art World, From the Omi Sculpture Park to a 9/11 Memorial

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38499/how-augmented-reality-is-going-viral-in-the-art-world-from-the-omi-sculpture-park-to-a-911-memorial/

AR imagination

Martian Attack - Zapparel from Zappar on Vimeo.

HyperReality Helmet Uses Kinect To Create An Out-Of-Body Experience

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664609/hyperreality-helmet-uses-kinect-to-create-an-out-of-body-experience

what if i know how somebody see me?


Hyper(reality) - The Last Tuesday Society from Maxence on Vimeo.



Hyper(reality) - Geffrye Museum from Maxence on Vimeo.