augmented reality

yapf: a local POI finder with augmented reality

November 11, 2011 | By ardit

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yapf (yet another POI finder) is a local POI finder. Use Google local search to find places nearby, view places on a map or through your camera with the augmented reality feature.

FEATURES

AUGMENTED REALITY
GOOGLE LOCAL SEARCH
MULTIPLE LIVE TILES (secondary tiles display the distance from you and your pined places. Main live tile displays the distance from your favorites places)
INTEGRATION WITH PHONE ACCENT COLOR
SEND PLACES WITH MAIL OR SMS
FULL MANGO SUPPORT

LANGUAGE SUPPORTED

ENGLISH
ITALIAN

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NOTE: I forgot the “Calibration Needed” notification so if the augmented reality is not working properly try to calibrate the compass by moving your wrist in a 8 pattern for 2-3 seconds. I will add the Calibration Needed notification in the next update.

yapf is a FREE application (no ads), is available world-wide and can be found in Marketplace here.

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Heads Up Compass for Windows Phone

October 20, 2011 | By Linknode

Heads Up Compass is an augmented reality compass display. Using the video feed and camera sensors, the Heads Up Compass creates an integrated display with bearings and directions on top of the live image from your camera.

Heads Up Compass allows you to see and accurately determine the features you are interested in without needing to look away.

Augmented Reality Display

Overlay of compass rose and bearing on the camera video feed
Indication of cardinal points and half cardinal points
Filtered display for smooth output

Automatic Device Identification

Overlays for heads up portrait and landscape orientation
Plus traditional horizontal compass rose display
Includes compass calibration detection requirement

Heads Up Compass is $0.99 with a free ad supported trial mode.

Full Details and Download Here

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Hot or not Scanner for Mango uses Augmented Reality, lets you cheat

September 24, 2011 | By Surur

Hot or not scanner claims to use augmented reality to scan for faces and analyse facial structure in real time to answer that all-important question – is she (or he) hot or not.

However given that most of us have pretty accurate Hot or Not scanners built-in, the app also allows one to adjust the score to one’s taste by sliding one’s finger to the left or right on the screen.

I have no idea if the app actually does any analysing, but it seems at least to be able to tell the difference between a face and a cup, supports uploading to Facebook, and comes with a free trial, so as a gag app $0.99 does not seem too much to ask.

Hot or not Scanner can be found in Marketplace here.

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Gratuitous–a gratuitous augmented reality app for Windows Phone 7.5

September 4, 2011 | By Surur

If one would ask what a tip calculator app needed to set itself apart, I suspect very few people would have said an augmented reality restaurant guide.

Andrew Clay Long is however one of the select group who thinks this is exactly what such an app needs, as can be seen in the video above. His tip calculator also includes a foursquare app and Yelp integration, making it a virtual Swiss army knife of Dining out tools.

If that sounds like exactly what you need, the the non-Mango version can be found in Marketplace here.

For Developers: Guide to building Augmented Reality Layer-like Apps on Windows Phone 7

August 8, 2011 | By Surur

Windows Phone Mango AR Part 1 from Sangar ANNADORAI on Vimeo.

Shank, an intern at Microsoft Singapore, has put together a guide to help developers create Layer-like Augmented Reality apps on Windows Phone 7 Mango.

The video above discuss in detail about various APIs and Sensors involved in building these types of application. A second video after the break show step by step how to build the entire AR Application.

Continue reading →

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First Mango Augmented Reality app in action

July 11, 2011 | By Surur

Mango will for the first time allow 3rd party developers direct access to the camera without hacking the OS.

Apeoholic is one of the first to put this new-found permission in action with the above Augmented Reality app, which created a 3D ZX Spectrum out of thin air.

The demo, which uses the freely available SLARToolkit combined both Silverlight and XNA, and is likely the first of a wave of apps which will make use of the new feature.

First 3rd party Augmented Reality app already demoed, developers to have early Mango updates

May 24, 2011 | By Surur

belfiore Rene Schulte, the PictureLab dev, seems to have had an early hands-on with a Mango handset, and had the phone running his Augmented Reality Silverlight toolkit is seems in no time at all.

While Rene is a Microsoft MVP and very successful WP7 developer, via WPSauce we hear that Microsoft will be releasing Mango updates for their phones well before the official Fall release. Might be time to get that developer account after all…

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WP7 History Channel Augmented Reality app demoed

May 24, 2011 | By Surur

Engadget has uploaded a video demonstrating the Augmented Reality features of the History Channel app running on a HTC Trophy with Mango, and in the video demonstrated the use of the Motion API and the new Live Tiles.

Windows Phone ‘Mango"’ includes 1500 new API’s and supposedly 500 new features which Microsoft promised to trickle out over the next few weeks.

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LG updates ScanSearch, releases Korean text entry app

April 25, 2011 | By Surur

Richard has written to let us know that LG has updated some apps in its OEM-specific Marketplace.

LG has released a new application called LG Hangul which allows for Korean text entry.

They have also updated their augmented reality app ScanSearch, but unfortunately no change log is available.

Do any of our readers know what’s new in this app? Let us know below.

Thanks Richard for the tip.

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Current generation Windows Phone 7 handsets will still be able to do Augmented Reality

April 14, 2011 | By Surur

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With gyroscopes joining the Chassis 1 spec there has been some concern that the platform is fragmenting.

WPCentral, who is reporting from MIX11, reports that Mark Paley, Principal Lead Program Manager for Windows Phone has been reassuring.

With the new Motion Sensor API the present sensors are synthesized into a single virtual sensor, the so-called Motion Sensor, from which developers will be able to read motion directly. Each sensor will just add to the accuracy of the Motion Sensor, but 3rd party software will generally remain largely agnostic to the actual number of sensors in the device, unless the developer specifically checks for the presence of a gyroscope using ‘Motion.IsSupported’.

This means Augmented Reality Apps will work perfectly fine on all devices, and just a bit better on the ones with gyroscopes.

Read more about the technology at WPCentral here.

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A brief look at Augmented Reality Search on the LG Optimus 7

December 14, 2010 | By Surur

Most ;video demoes of ScanSearch on the LG Optimus 7 demonstrates it inside, where the real benefit of the Augmented Reality Search system can not be seen.

PhoneArena has published this video showing the software in action outside, and one can see pretty accurate tracking due to the built-in compass, which 3rd parties still do not have access to, and which makes the application unique on the selection of Windows phone 7 handsets.

Are any of our LG Optimus owning readers found this software useful? Let us know below.

Via PhoneArena.com

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Forget Google Goggles–Wizup for Windows Phone 7 is WOW!

September 25, 2010 | By Surur

Wizup is an augmented reality app for Windows Phone 7 that is able to recognize media from the radio, television, posters and magazines, and if reality is anywhere close to the video demo is pretty amazing.

The software can analyse and recognizes, in time real , content of:

150 radio stations or 97% of the national audience
1200 Press titles to be 99% of the national audience
100 TV channels or 96% of the national audience
8 500 000 titles
4 major national networks display

See the video above for the application of this technology ( only 5 minutes of the 13 minute video should give more than a taste of the potential).

The software is an entry in Microsoft’s Developeurs contest in France, and you can vote for it to win at on FaceBook here by liking it.

Anyone as impressed as me? Let us know below.

Via MobilityDigest.com

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Augmented Reality used to simulate an accelerometer in Windows Phone 7 emulator

September 14, 2010 | By Surur

We have seen many creative approaches to implementing accelerometer input in windows phone 7, including using Wii remotes, but Nikos Kastellanos’s approach clearly takes the crown for the most innovative and unusual approach.

Using the ARToolkit, they implemented a method where a user will be able to hold a cardboard cut-out of a device with a special pattern in front of a webcam and see, on their screen, an apparently real device responding to their movements, running the code they had just written in the emulator.

Nikos from tainicom.net promise to release the software to developers soon.

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