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Visual Search, Augmented Reality, and Physical Hyperlinks for Playfulness, Not just Purchases: Talking with Paige Saez about ImageWiki

The video above, The Imawik commercial, is a collaboration between In The Can Productions and Paige Saez for Makerlab “The Imawik (ImageWiki) is a visual search tool for mobile devices. It allows for the ability to turn images into physical hyperlinks, conflating visual culture with a community-editable universal namespace for images.” Paige Saez is an [...]

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ISMAR 2009: An Augmented Reality “Top Chef” Coopetition

ISMAR 2009 -  was an extraordinary mix of  high geek, academic eminence, gungho Dutch Cowboy entrepreneurial spirit, German engineering and industry, brilliant artistry, and invention, all fueled by a sense, and a very active presence in the case of Diamond Sponsor – Qualcomm, that the big technology players are waking up to augmented reality. In [...]

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Total Immersion and the “Transfigured City:” Shared Augmented Realities, the “Web Squared Era,” and Google Wave

Above is an image above  from Total Immersion’s augmented reality experience developed for the “Networked City” exhibition in South Korea, – “a fun scenario created for a u-City’s infrastructure and city management service” “To the naked eye, the exhibit looks like a bare bones model of a city. But when visitors put on the special [...]

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