Image courtesy of KPI's website

From their website:

Augmented Reality (AR) is the overlay of multimedia elements (video, images, 3D Digital imagery) over a camera view of the real world – it allows the viewer to see computer media as if it exists alongside real objects. Our Augmented Reality Festival presented the work of 14 students from the interactive Art And the Web class and a few other examples of AR. The show included images on the wall, magazines, framed art, and books that students enhanced with AR imagery visible with an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone.

Some projects in the show:  Student Roxanne Charles will show a framed a black and white photo of Chief Dan George that becomes an animated video. Roxanne Charles: “The video will contrast cultural in the city with the struggle of addiction that faces many aboriginal people in the downtown eastside. There will be a layering of sound that is competing with the words of Chief Dan George as it is becoming harder to hear the voice of our ancestors in an ever growing metropolis.”  Mark Stewart presented “Dissappearing CMYK” a copy of CMYK magazine “50″ edition that erases itself when viewed in AR.

KPI put together a video demonstrating all of the individual projects- make sure to check it out to see all of the artisitc ways the students used junaio. Do you have a junaio project you’re working on? Tell us about it at feedback@junaio.com, and who knows- you may see yourself up here sometime.

Have a good weekend, and we’ll see you Monday for Weekest Links!

(Download junaio 3.5)

Mmm. Pudding.

Remember when we announced the release of junaio 3.5? Since then we’ve been toying around with it on various devices, comparing it to its predecessor and testing its limits. Turns out the limits are pretty impressive, so we thought we’d share this nifty video with all of you. Haters beware! This is completely unadulterated, real-time footage from the labs of metaio. Let’s break it down for you:

Faster Recognition (0:14)

junaio 3.5 initializes faster with quicker image recognition, tracking, and the overlaying of virtual information. We get you the content faster.

Extreme Perspectives (0:28) & Solid Animations (0:39)

Since everyday we’re delivering more content to our users, we wanted to make sure that content arrives and stays. That’s why we’ve improved the tracking and recognition of junaio that it functions even at extreme angles. Less shaking, models don’t randomly disappear, and the overall experience is smoother and less interrupted. If you notice in the video, even at extreme and steep angles the content remains fixed to the magazine. On that same note, animations and 3D models are anchored better, with less jittering and less motion blur.

Even at Great Distances (0:50)

The animations, virtual and interactive content will now track and initialize from much farther away than was previously possible. The difference in the video is clear- whether it’s at a distance, up close, extreme angle or moving around, virtual content is better with junaio. That’s probably because we have some of the best tracking around. All in all, we think you’d agree with us when we say that junaio-

Creates a More Natural Experience. 

Because it does. Now go out and download it!

metaio / junaio recap:

metaio taps itelligence to implement SAP ByDesign for its infrastructure, read the Press Release.

Texas Instruments announces partnership with metaio to optimize metaio’s software for the OMAP mobile platform. Press Release.

Just in case you missed it,we launched junaio 3.5 for Android and iOS.

Drupa uses junaio for interactive print campaign, check out the article in PrintWeek.

TABWorld Media (junaio Certified Developer) will be teaming up with the Mobile World Congress this year for a junaio project.

The same team responsible for the #AROccupy project has developed an AR  Memorial for the US / Mexico border that uses junaio.

Artist Jacob Garbe uses junaio in his latest installation- read his blog to learn more.

N-spired uses junaio to augment T-Shirts to fund social justice.

From outside our ecosystem:

The Augmented Reality Event (ARE) has announced their Open Call For Proposals- start drafting those sessions now and hopefully we’ll see you in Santa Clara this year.

Our pick from last week- the Mercedes DICE Augmented Windshield Demo:  

Everyone loves to feature new technology in San Francisco. I still sometimes make this drive on my way to the metaio office- it’s never this interesting though.

goAugmented, one of our junaio Certified Developers, recently worked with Adidas and More Creative to design an interactive launch of the new Scotland Home football jersey. The video above is from the November 11, 2011 experience at the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

Though this example wasn’t created using junaio or metaio software, we thought we’d give a quick shout-out and congratulations to goAugmented for their great work. And based on personal experience, it’s always fun to work with great brands like Adidas.

Check out the goAugmented blog for more info,

Read about becoming a Certified Developer,

And most importantly, enjoy your weekend!

(Don’t forget about Squirrel Appreciation Day tomorrow either)

(Image courtesy of Fast Company)

metaio / junaio recap:

We launched junaio 3.5 for Android and iOS! If you haven’t read the about the improved performance and usability yet, you can do so here. And while you’re at it, check out the post about junaio user Blickpunk, who won the junaio Christmas AR-Special.

(If you haven’t signed up for our newsletters, you can read the release email on Bruce Sterling’s Wired Column)

Texas Instruments and metaio team up to optimize the OMAP mobile processors with metaio’s software. Read all about it in Texas Instruments’ CES ’12 Press Release.

ST-Ericsson’s Björn Ekelund interviews metaio CTO Peter Meier on the St-Ericsson blog, where he talks about what got him excited about AR in the first place, plus what the future may hold for metaio and the industry.

If you haven’t heard, one of our junaio Certified Developers, TABWorld Media, will be teaming up with the Mobile World Congress this year for a junaio project.

From outside our ecosystem:

Though it was posted before Christmas, wanted to highlight one of our favorite tech journalists, Kit Eaton, as he both informs and excites us about the possible advent of Google AR Eyewear.

Our pick from last week: 

Must see this incredible CES 2012 Demo. Evidently these are going into Mass Production in the very near future- corner offices just got swankier.

Also, congratulations to Samsung for winning a CES 2012 Innovation award for this- they definitely deserved it.

If you’d like to submit things for Weekest Links, post it on our wall and we’ll check it out!

"Would you like junaio with that?"

Gregory Scalet of the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) has put together a Augmented Reality research project concentrating on 9th Century Frescoes and their visualizations in the 21st century.

Scalet was able to construct a 3D model of the scanned images of the Frescoes using Maya, a popular 3D modeling tool. He then integrated the model into a junaio Channel, using a basic (but original) marker to display the experience . This kind of interface is perfect for people who want to explore 3D models in real-time and real-space.

If you would however like to explore it in real-real-space, you can do what Greg did and attach your iPad 2 to the dashboard of your car. After Greg anchored the model to a physical location using junaio’s GPS & location-based development features, he was able to literally drive through and around the 3D model while exploring it from his car. Please don’t try this at home unless you 1) have very carefully anchored your tablet device to your dashboard, and 2) are idling.

Great work Greg!

Check out the video of Greg’s project and junaio footage, and enjoy your weekend- we’ll see you on Monday for Weekest Links!

Disclaimer- it has however not been 1999 for quite some time

We are ushering in this brand new year with a major performance and usability update to our award-winning augmented reality browser and platform- that’s right, you guessed it – junaio.

We’re constantly working to ensure that junaio only gets better for both develops and users. Whether you downloaded the app at 2.0 and have been upgrading ever since or you’re starting with 3.5, everyone should be able to access information from the world around them conveniently and efficiently.

To start, we made searching faster and stronger- not only did we cut loading times, we’ve extended our search engine to search content and names of individual channels. That means when you search “Supermarkets” in junaio you’ll find all the channels that have the corresponding content listed. Since we’ve optimized the regional filtering, the search results you get back will be more relevant to your location.

And to help  you discover all of this real-world information, we’ve enhanced both the Map View and List View. Both will now update automatically and dynamically as you move around your general area- no need to refresh! Even better, the List View now has a dynamic compass arrow displayed next to every location so you can always be pointed in the right direction.

The update wouldn’t be complete without major improvements to image recognition, visual search, and barcode scanning. They’re work better and faster- including speedier content downloads and interactions. After you update, make sure to test the performance of this latest version (including the newly updated 3D rendering engine) using the examples on our website.

So update junaio to version 3.5, available on the Android Market and the Apple Appstore today!

As always we are looking forward to your feedback, so write us with questions, comments and concerns to feedback@junaio.com

Happy 2012! 

Thanks to everyone that participated- we received a phenomenal response from old and new fans alike, more than we had even hoped for. This certainly bodes well for similar experience in the future, i.e. more fun free stuff for all of you, so many thanks once again for the support and the participation. Check out the gallery below for more photos courtesy of our winner.

Speaking of which, congratulations once again to blickpunk on his success! Enjoy that new iPad2- I think I know a pretty good app to download.

Happy New Year!

The results of the 2011 Augmented Planet Reader’s Choice Awards are in, and junaio has come away with the award for Best Augmented Reality Marketing Campaign for the interactive television experience for the European TV Show Galileo, by ProSieben.  We’re very excited to have received such a positive response from Augmented Planet readers for this campaign- this was the first major use-case for augmented television, and one of the first times it had been implemented by an AR browser on such a massive scale.

Galileo viewers could use their smartphones while watching to participate in an interactive quiz game, all through junaio. After selecting their answers, they would even get feedback in real time. Not only is this a technological answer to SMS texting and marketing, but it opens up yet another way for television viewers to interact and experience their favorite programs- not merely watch them. To watch a video of the experience, check out the clip on ProSieben’s website (with English subtitles).

The junaio channel ran successfully for many months with over 250,000 particpants. ProSieben eventually enlisted metaio Partner and junaio Certified Developer Kreativagentur Thomas to develop an entire Augmented Reality app, “Galileo Zeitreise”  for a recent experience in which users could embark on a Time Travel adventure through the popular TV show.

junaio also placed second for Best AR Browser, and metaio won Best AR Developer Tool Kit for the new (and free!) metaio Mobile SDK. Be sure to check out the Augmented Blog to learn more about their successes.

LiveViewStudios has created a fantastic AR installation in Belgrade for the 2011 Belgrade Science Festival. The installation involved a giant book that featured subjects like History, Geography and Natural Science with which visitors, children, and students alike could experience with a large-scale Augmented Reality display.

All of the subject matter was presented with a unique AR “twist”- as you can see in the video, 3D animations and interactions were triggered by covering and uncovering various markers on the giant pages.

LiveViewStudios also implemented mobile augmented reality features in the surrounding areas using science safety symbols as tracking images. Using junaio, visitors and children could play an interactive discovery game by pointing their phones at the images to reveal 3D animations and objects. The title of this blog post comes from something one of the children said after playing the game:

“This is great, you do not have to swallow TV anymore!”

There was also a facial AR booth that placed the head of a prominent author over the faces of the participants, while the animated author head explained aspects of the exhibition and general thoughts on AR.

Also, he could be Batman.

Great work once again by LiveViewStudio- make sure to check out the links above to learn more about the great projects they do.