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Augmented Reality Ebooks Are Fraught with Technical Problems

February 8th, 2012 · augmented reality

People are putting video, audio, and interactive content in their books, but I’m pretty sure that we’ll never see augmented reality added to an ebook.

A couple weeks back I posted on a new augmented reality book that was just published. The authors had posted an augmented reality demo that you could try, and I had a poor experience. The idea didn’t seem to work all that well, but it did get me interested in the idea.

I got to wondering on how well this would work with an ebook.

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I Hope Digital Pop-Up Books Aren’t the Future

January 27th, 2012 · augmented reality

You’ve seen a pop-up book before right (a paper one, that is)? Here is the digital equivalent.

Over the past couple years a number of publishers have been experimenting with augmented reality apps. Do you know how movie makers can add CGI to  film and insert imagined creatures in among the real actors? In augmented reality, you can do that in real time with your webcam.

Check out the video below. This is something that is easier to show than say.

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