The folks over at ARToolWorks look like they’ve got a version of their software running on an iPhone. Since the iPhone SDK doesn’t provide access to the camera for video, I assume they’ve done it using a hacked phone. Speaking of ARToolWorks, they’ve got quite the team over there. Mark Billinghurst has always been an evangelist and Philip Lamb does great wpork with the actual code and infrastructure. Daniel Belcher and Raphael Grasset are both talented AR researchers and developers, too.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-oAmBDcZk

Open the Future: Making the Visible Invisible is Jamais Cascio’s essay/article on augmented reality. He’s made some interesting observations about SPAM (yes, it’ll be in AR too) and such but my sense is that he’s not particularly familiar with the field or research. He uses the notion of making the visible invisible but probably isn’t aware of Thad Starner’s Mediated Reality work. Nor is aware of (or at least he doesn’t mention) Tobias Hollerer’s filtering research from back in his MARS and CGUI days.

e does, however, have some nice imagery and I’m glad to see a thoughtful essay on the topic. I just hope he spends a little more time getting familiar with the subject. 🙂