The New York Times experiment with Google has put remarkable augmented and virtual reality technologies centre stage for publishers. The tech never fails to startle, even though the NYT approach is quite clunky using expensive bespoke videos and … [Read more...] about Easy augmented reality for your publication – a simpler version of the New York Times VR #DNRoadshow
Augmented Reality
Free trial for Augmented Reality
We have been playing about with Geolocation of content and Augmented Reality for a while now here at Talk About Local. Our Nesta & Nominet Trust funded HypARlocal research project ran for 12 months and allowed us to investigate some of the many … [Read more...] about Free trial for Augmented Reality
Independent+ augmented reality content with Blippar – user review
It is good to see The Independent taking the plunge to be the first newspaper to try wholeheartedly to integrate augmented web content into their editorial workflow. We've been playing with location based AR here at TAL for a while and I dived in to … [Read more...] about Independent+ augmented reality content with Blippar – user review
Augmented Planet conference
On Tuesday & Wednesday this week I went along to the Augmented Planet conference in London.I have to say I wasn't too sure what I was expecting but the event wasn’t anywhere as big as I had expected it to be. As it turned out it was a … [Read more...] about Augmented Planet conference
Delighted to be a Knight Foundation news challenge:mobile semi-finalist
It's great to hear that our augmented reality and geolocation toolkit for journalists has got through to the semi finals of the Knight Foundation's News Challenge: mobile. Journalists have always had an acute sense of time about their work. But the … [Read more...] about Delighted to be a Knight Foundation news challenge:mobile semi-finalist
Augmented Reality it's not just for news
Over the past few months I've been working on the Nesta & Nominet Trust funded project HypARlocal (we really should get around to changing the name, suggestions?), where we are focussing on taking geolocated news content from hyperlocal blogs and … [Read more...] about Augmented Reality it's not just for news