AR Weekly Digest #49

1. Intelligent Headset Augments The World Around With 3D Sounds

Who told you that augmented reality can be created only with visional images. Meet a new product from Intelligent Headset, which aims to immerse you into the world of AR filled with sound and space.

The hardware in the headphones presented combines 3D audio, GPS, and head tracking. It also features compass, gyroscope, and accelerometer that help the system tracks which way the user is moving and in which direction they’re looking. Users can trigger an action withing apps assisting the device by pushing a button on the outside of the earpiece.

More than 50 apps have currently been prototyped, some based on partnerships with Clio Online and HearPlanet for educational and tourism content, but the company also encourages third-party developers to create apps for the headset by opening a developer portal and giving access to a snap-on module.

URL: http://www.gizmag.com/intelligent-headset-augmented-reality-gps-3d-audio/29028

2. Programming functionalities of real objects with Augmented Reality

Reality Editor: Programming Smarter Objects from Fluid Interfaces on Vimeo.

A new interesting project was presented by MIT media lab. It is called the Reality Editor. It is a system that supports editing the behavior and interfaces of socalled “smarter objects”, i.e. objects or devices that have an embedded processor and communication capability. Using augmented reality techniques, the Reality Editor maps graphical elements directly on top of the tangible interfaces found on physical objects, such as push buttons or knobs. The Reality Editor allows flexible reprogramming of the interfaces and behavior of the objects as well as defining relationships between smarter objects in order to easily create new functionalities. The goal of the research group is to rethink the human-machine interactive experience. By designing interfaces that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive they are changing the human-machine relationship and creating systems that are more responsive to people’s needs and actions.

URL: http://fluid.media.mit.edu/node/227

3. Augmented Reality Magazine Helps Readers Learn Sign Language

To break down the communication barrier between the world of the death and the hearing and increase awareness of sign language in Germany, a group of designers Morphoria has created a magazine that hopes to bridge these two worlds. They created a concept magazine that focuses on the culture of the German sign language community called Deaf.

With text, pictures and videos with subtitles, the magazine would show digital information when the printed pages are scanned with a smart device (smarphones and tablets), so that it’s easier for viewers to understand what is written on the pages—and the deaf can learn new words, while the hearing can learn sign language.

DEAF MAGAZINE from MORPHORIA DESIGN COLLECTIVE on Vimeo.

URL: http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/10/deaf-magazine-uses-augmented-reality-to-teach-readers-sign-language

4. New App from Stoll von Gáti visualizes entire bathroom collections at home

The customer-oriented solution has been created by Stoll von Gáti of Crailsheim called The Villeroy & Boch Augmented Reality (AR) app. It allows potential customers to preview the bath designer’s products in a real environment, e.g. their own bathrooms. The app, in conjunction with the marker, can project products virtually in the relevant space. Moreover, users can experiment in real time with various designs and colors, and then decide which bathroom sink or furnishing they like most.

“Accuracy and realism are guaranteed by directly importing the CAD data. As a result, the virtual photographs ensure consistent quality and a coherent style. What’s more, despite the fact that the digital 3D workflow provides heightened flexibility, overall production costs drop over time,” explains Dietrich Stoll, Managing Director of Stoll von Gáti GmbH.

URL: http://www.villeroy-boch.com/ru/ru/home/vannaja-i-velnes/oformlenie-vannoi/augmented-reality.html

5. 15-year-old arrested for using augmented reality iPhone app

A student at H. L. Bourgeois High School in the USA accused of using an augmented reality mobile phone app The Real Strike to simulate shooting in the classroom was arrested in Terrebonne Parish. It happened after he posted a video on YouTube using the Real Strike app to shoot other kids.

“You can’t ignore it,” says Major Malcolm Wolfe. “We don’t know at what time that game becomes reality.”

The child said he did it to get back at students in the school who were bullying him but did not want to hurt anyone. Whether it is true or not, such case should be taken into consideration in society as far as children should not suffer from using augmented reality apps.

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