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Web Discoveries for January 14th

These are my del.icio.us links for January 14th Augmented Reality Year in Review – 2009 « The Future Digital Life – An excellent month-by-month rundown of AR ongoings/events last year, the year AR entered popular consciousness. How to Build a Memory Palace – wikiHow – Instructions to create your own memory palace: a useful and […]

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Conclusion

I set out to assess the implications of a wholly new medium, one which had received little academic attention written from a media theoretical perspective. I made clear use of an industry connection to gain inside knowledge of the developments occurring to bring this medium to the mainstream. Building a methodology that could sustain the […]

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Reverse-Engineering AR

This section seeks to locate AR’s position within a wider context. There are three media that converge in Mobile AR: Virtual Reality; the Internet and the mobile telephone, with other, subsidiary technologies as enablers to this end. Assessing the three of these in turn, we can glean knowledge of these highly influential media forms and […]

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Gameware: A Case-Study in AR Development

I have been aided in this series by a connection with Gameware Development Limited, a Cambridge-based commercial enterprise working in the entertainment industry. Gameware was formed in May 2003 from Creature Labs Ltd, developing for the PC games market which produced the market leading game in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Creatures. When Gameware was formed, a […]

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What is AR and What is it Capable Of?

Presently, most AR research is concerned with live video imagery and it’s processing, which allows the addition of live-rendered 3D digital images. This new augmented reality is viewable through a suitably equipped device, which incorporates a camera, a screen and a CPU capable of running specially developed software. This software is written by specialist software […]

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