Augmented Reality: Practical Guide

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Archos 5 32GB SSD Flash Internet Tablet

HTC Touch HD T8282 Unlocked Phone

Motorola GSM with 5 MP Camera, MP3, GPS, Android, AR

Archos 5 250GB Android Internet Media Tablet

Acer AOD250-1613 10.1-Inch Black Android/XP Netbook

iPhone AR SDK

Professional Android Application Programming

Android Wireless Application Development

Android: Googles Mobile Development OS

Android Application Programming Development

MSI Android Tablet:

Tablet computers represent the push for visual squeeze and pinch iphone (and now iPad tablet) interface users to obliterate the horizontal evolutionary line of the keyboard. Independent of the battle between the two camps, tablet computing, outside of the medical profession and television anchors, is really being promoted as a prime opportunity for augmented reality application developers. Previously, its been the Archos 5 internet tablet with Android OS thats held the spot open, and now, theres an open source tablet coming out from MSI (netbook design competitor) in 5 months that will run the android software platform. What will this do for such toolkit projects as (gnu licensed) ARToolkit? From the looks of early presentation models, theres clearly some memory management issues to deal with. Also, the SSD Solid State Flash drive industry can always use a kick in the tuch. But the freedom to play around with platforms without licensing overhead cant be overlooked. The Android Tablet Rumor is it might run around $500.

are2010 conference:

finally, Augmented Reality Events and Conferences get their own. ARE2010, a promo event to network "the business of augmented reality" into existence, is going to be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, June 2 - 3, 2010. Naturally, they have recruited a primary Augmented Reality recruiter to keynote it,Bruce Sterling (although, a Rudy Rucker might be somehow fitting also, for the more "augmented" aspect...) Either way check it out at the promoters website. Look for an AR amalgam of industry sectors, as in government, healthcare, tourism, education, cross-media, hollywood, startups, augmented reality developers, and cool AR mobile software and hardware gadgeteers. Virtual or Real Schwag? A new question for conference designers.

ARMAR: Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair on Android

Columbia Universitys Computer Graphics and User Interface Lab created this cool interface for mechanical repairr, and call it ARMAR (Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair). ARMAR works as a head mounted display with graphic popups overlaying the "reality" camera output. It uses, awesomely enough, an Android phone for interface control. See the IEEE for more info, or watch this augmented reality android video:

Augmented Reality iPhone RC Controlled Helicopter:

This new gadget from Parrot combines an iphone controller (no android app yet?) for a remote control helicopter toy... with a caveat: the rc copter has an embedded webcam the phone controller can access and view in realtime. The camera also allows augmented reality games to be played on your rc controller.