Augmented Reality
August 2, 2010
I love Augmented Reality (AR). It is HOT HOT HOT. But most people don’t know what it is yet ,or if they do, they’re kind of scared of it. I encourage you to take a try with AR once more. We at SJPL have a $50,000 grant to develop historical walking tours using augmented reality and original items in our history collection. So exciting! Below is a presentation I did for Handheld Librarian 3 Conference. It walks you through some of what’s out there, the differences in the equipment and data, and what that means potentially for library services. Be ready to be amazed!
Augmented Reality
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August 2nd, 2010 at 8:26 am
Sarah – Your AR project sounds soooo interesting! I can’t wait to hear more about it. I’m learning more about AR now that I have an Android phone. The links on your presentation will be a big help to me. Please let us know how the project is going as it progresses.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 am
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August 2nd, 2010 at 7:14 pm
This looked so exciting. I really wish I could have been there to hear your presentation on this subject, in fact I wish I could have been there to hear all of your presentations. I don’t think work will go for a trip to the U.S. to hear you speak.
I don’t suppose there is a recording floating around?? Or that you could possibly slidecast some of your presentations??
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:21 am
Sarah, Excellent slide show, I’m sure that your presentation was well received given the thoroughness of your information. I also would like to hear more about your walking tour app. It sounds intriguing given hat you are involved in the project. Many of the mobile augmented reality projects that I’ve seen only provide surface-level information such as a Starbucks is in this direction.
I saw a demo of a real estate-based AR app recently, it basically would inform you if any construction or other publics works projects would happen in a particular area. The ideal user is home buyers or renters. – excellent application in my opinion.
My company is using AR in the greeting card space. We enable people to send a personal and private video message inside the greeting card. So far our customers love the product so we can be added to the “useful” column!
Keep up the great work and I’ll be watching for updates on your walking tours.
Stan Timek
Atomic Greetings
http://atomicgreetings.com
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:42 pm
The Handheld Librarian 3 Conference was, I believe, recorded….so the archived sessions for the whole conference will hopefully be announced soon. So you can not only hear the sessions I did on augmented reality & free/cheap mobile services, but hear me compete in Battledecks too! I don’t know when the link would be announced, but I’m sure it will make the rounds on blogs & Twitter feeds.
August 4th, 2010 at 11:33 am
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August 5th, 2010 at 8:43 am
Thanks, Sarah, for sharing with us (as usual) a very cool project. My colleagues and I are curious to know what sort of grants you applied for to get such great funding for this project.
August 8th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
We got our funding from LSTA, administered in California by the State Library. We have just started the project, so stay tuned.
November 7th, 2010 at 10:43 am
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