The Challenges and Opportunities of AR – Weekly Mashup 134

The Challenge and Opportunity of Augmented Reality
ReCode

"AR will drive massive real-world opportunities right out of the gate ... it feels increasingly inevitable that it will eventually impact just about everything and everyone. But these massive opportunities won’t come easy. Nearly every aspect of a future AR experience is going to require big leaps in new hardware components, new types of interaction models, next-level applications, and connected services we’ve yet to even conceive." Read More

The New Yorker Releases Its First Augmented Reality Cover
FastCompany

"The cover was created for the magazine's annual Innovators Issue by artist Christoph Niemann. Readers can look at the cover through an app on an iOS or Android device to see it spring to life. "If you create a world on paper, you create a window. Usually, you just break the surface with your mind, but you always have the feeling of: What if you could step into that world or if something could come out of it?" Niemann told the New Yorker." Read More

Computer Vision is Key to Amazon Prime Air Drone Deliveries
Engadget

"The group invented methods for reconstructing geometry from images and contextually recognizing environmental objects, giving the drones the ability to differentiate between, say, a swimming pool and your back patio. Both are flat surfaces, but one won't leave your PlayStation VR headset waterlogged after drop-off." Read More

The Roll Helps You Find the Best Photos on Your Phone
TechCrunch

"Wondering which of the tens of thousands of photos on your phone are worth keeping or sharing may be a thing of the past, thanks to The Roll, a brand new app from EyeEm. The iOS app analyzes your camera roll and uses computer vision to tag your images and rank your photos by how good they are." Read More

How The Voice and Twitter Plan to Use Augmented Reality to Boost Social Engagement
AdWeek

"Twitter is setting up an augmented reality (AR) booth backstage tonight at The Voice, which will be shooting live from NBC studios in Universial City, Calif. The celebrity voice coaches—Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and Pharrell Williams—and competing singers will tweet six-second videos of their interactions with animated objects." Read More

Clarifying the Uses of Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise
TechCrunch

"Artificial intelligence. It’s dominating headlines with the promise of self-driving cars and virtual assistants becoming more real every day. But despite all the talk around AI, no one seems to really understand what it is or how companies can use it. Is AI the computer that competed on Jeopardy? Or Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit? Will machines really take our jobs? As data volumes surge and analytic engines become more mature, has technology finally caught up with the hype?" Read More

Augmented Reality, Going Beyond the Video Wall
NewscastStudio

"The studio is the cornerstone of news production and brand-producers are always looking for new ways to make the most of their facilities. In this quest they may face space, set or budget limitations, not to mention scheduling deadlines that make hard set construction impractical. This is when augmented reality can be a producer’s secret weapon." Read More