Another and even bigger update about augmented reality. From the videos that I found over the last 3 weeks you can see that the context gets more and more integrated in the digital projection. VR glasses seem to finally find the way with the help of AR to the consumer, especially for the gaming industry this will be very interesting. For latest updates you can also follow: http://twitter.com/AugmentedAdvert

Augmented reality, remote control cars:

Interaction with an Augmented Reality Avatar

Physics and Augmented Reality – Part 1

Physics and Augmented Reality – Part 2

Gizmondo Augmented Reality Game

AR video projection

AR baseball cards and game
http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/319/
Very impressive to see that you can already play small casual games with AR characters. I expect that we are going to see a lot more of this stuff in the next months.

GE smart grid

Explaination: http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

Introversion’s DefconAR: apocolypse augmented

Augmented Reality toys

Augmented Reality Toys (Work in progress) from Frantz Lasorne on Vimeo.
http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/03/16/surreal-becomes-real-with-toys-and-ar/
Even it’s work in progress this already looks very advanced and I think that there are a lot of board/card games that could easily be re-interpreted with AR tools like this.

AR worms & MRToolKit

AR Lego

This video shows that when you add some animations to AR the user experience get’s even better. Especially for LEGO this totally fits since the brand is all about building up something by your own.

3 years old but still one of the best AR presentations
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6523761027552517909
The helicopter is very impressive and this toy would find a lot of friends in ad agencies

Looks pretty wacky right now but I think this can be possible quite soon. The first solutions for shopping advices already exist and it doesn’t take a lot to transfer into other areas and connect it with social networks.

via: Mirror Image

It started with Wikitude, Enkin and Mini and now also more and more games using augmented reality are popping up on all 3 major platforms: iPhone OS, Android and Symbian. Even if the graphics are still crappy and the game-play doesn’t feel good, it’s another small step to understand what’s possible nowadays.

Tower defense

MScape Game Demo: Roku’s Reward

HP already gives us a hint how the future of mobile gaming will look like. Seems pretty progress but we will get used to it very soon.

I’m curious when the first augmented reality application that connects QR codes and social networking profiles pops up? Can only be a matter of days.

Last month the Wikitude project released the second trailer clip explaining augmented reality and the progress of Wikitude.

Wikitude Part 2

Wikitude Part 1

Some days ago ING realeased their augmented reality software to locate ATMs.

ING – ATM (in dutch)

Can’t wait till we see more applications that mash up video, GPS data and knowledge from the cloud. We are just at the beginning. Imaging what’s possible when we stop using old thinking models in combination with new technology and finally understand what we can do with the technology that we have in our hands.