Paul Milne Honours Project

Epson has joined the race to make the first consumer available smart glasses, having joined forces with Meta and Columbia University.  However, as with Project Glass, remains to be seen whether they can live up to the hype and exciting features as shown in the promotional video.

It was only a matter of time before this happened.  Playboy has teamed up with Layar to create an 'enhanced' experience for viewers of their Dutch edition of the magazine, likely to be a controversial piece of marketing.

Just a wee bit of fun, definitely worth checking out!

A fantastic app allowing users to find out more information about where the ingredients in their food came from, pinpointing the customers location, date, and time.

Innovega have demonstrated a wearable transparent HUD at CES, similar to that suggested by Google Project Glass, however instead of a pair of glasses, iOptik works through a contact lens.

Amutsu have released a new idea of interactive t-shirts.  Their app will recognise the dragon print on the t-shirt and bring it to life!

A nice wee article by Joel Willans, explaining briefly some key points of the history of AR, then going on to a selling campaign for the Nokia City Lens app.

Based on Project Glass, I have started work on a user interface for a pair of Smart Glasses.  Simple start, I thought it would be a good feature to have a clock displayed, taking into account the information you are always able to see on a Smartphone.  Only a rough idea so far.  To start with, I used a rounded rectangle with corners radius rounded to 50px, with a black fill and grey border.  I then changed both the fill and opacity of the layer to %75, added a drop shadow, and a digital style font.

I should have posted this a very long time ago, but here are few screenshots of Googles proposed Smart Glasses, Project Glass.  For the video, follow this link http://youtu.be/9c6W4CCU9M4

Starwalk is the app that I have enjoyed the most.  Users can see the night sky, find out information about the stars, planets, constellations etc.  For me, I found that the User Interface was well done, minimalist on the live view, but with access to a large number of features.

After creating some basic shapes as potential point of interest markers, I played around with colours to see if this could be a potential way of distinguishing categories, such as using a blue marker for social networking feeds, a yellow marker for cafe's and restaurants etc.  Will be looking more into this for the final project.

Just came across this a blog by Markus Caspari focusing on Augmented Reality & Marketing.  While the rest of his blog is very interesting, I wanted to draw particular attention to his overview of the augmented reality landscape, showing different organisations, developers, applications, events etc. involved in AR.  Although I have heard of a good number of these, there is clearly still a lot of research to be done.

Worksnug allows users to locate wifi hotspots and laptop friendly places, somewhere the user can relax and get on with their work.

Tagwhat allows users to explore new places around them, sort of like a virtual tour guide.  Very good app for finding interesting places in your general area, linking the user to the locations Wikipedia page.

Mashable takes a look at 10 great ways of utilising Augmented Reality as a marketing tool

Another alternative use for AR, this time an augmented reality puzzle by Ravensburger, a leading global supplier of puzzles and games.  the app brings the puzzle to life, allowing the user to explore the scenic location, allowing a 360 degree rotation to see information of the surrounding area also.

Junaio is an augmented reality browser, similar to Wikitude and Layar, but focusing mainly on points of interests and landmarks.  Appears to have quite a good database, and a nice, simple user interface.