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An odd, echo-y voice says “one of your evaporators has been damaged”. “Attention: bantha heard nearby”.

Yes you read correctly, this is an augmented reality Tatooine. One can almost smell the banthas but I’m only scared the voice will say “Let the Tusken Raiders win”.  Let’s see if we can find the the table-top battle chess from Episode 4.

This video is by a French company that here demos AR for auto manufacturing. Video dates to 2005. If you can determine the name of the firm please let me know. Now, this video itself is created “virtually” meaning the audience was viewing the demo on a screen, not seeing the live cars as you see it.

This video shows some really practical applications and the animations are top notch.

If I can find out more about this I’ll update the post.

This article dates to 2002.  It explains what computer interfaces will look like “in the next 10 years”.  Now, it’s 2007 and we’re almost halfway there.  Or are we?  Remember – Da Vinci invented the helicopter 500 years ago.  Whatever we see emerge from augmented reality will likely look as different from what’s in the lab now, as Da Vinci’s model helicopters look compared to today’s real ones.  This is an interesting article with lots of historical information.

Read the article: Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing 

Now this is what I’m talking about. Developers Daniel Wagner, Thomas Pintaric, Florian Ledermann, and Dieter Schmalstieg of Vienna University of Technology created this project in which a 3D train is displayed on an HP Ipaq. The track exists in “real life” (aka. RL) and the train is augmented. The site contains lots of movies and a PDF explaining the approach.

PDF: http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/invisible_train/documents/wagner05_pervasive.pdf

Site: http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/invisible_train/

Photo credit: Vienna University of Technology

A-Rage is an augmented reality game development platform. Based in Australia, they have been active since 2003.

They have developed a few games with dinosaurs and flying saucers that ov

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