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Jens and i wrote the first AR demo based on WebGL and X3DOM. It uses FLARToolkit / FLARMaganger for marker tracking and renders via X3DOM. The superimposed model is a globe with NASA satellite texture with live clouds.

The Flash file for tracking and Javascript communication will be open source and available soon. There will be a compiled version with exchangeable markers, too. Thus you don’t have to touch Flash anymore.

Link to AR demo (you’ll need a supporting browser)

Since we can’t use Google’s satellite tiles legally, OpenStreetMap is a great alternative.

Here are the links how to get the tiles:
Slippy Map Tiles URL
Implementation

I could not attend in person but i gave a speech via Skype at AR Dev Camp in Frankfurt today. The talk was about my augmented reality projects, user experience in AR and open standards for sustainable AR.

Presentation PDF

In this talk i announced the open source movement of Open Annotation Engine. It’s the foundation of TwittARound: A Javascript framework for mobile augmented reality applications:
http://code.google.com/p/openannotationengine/

Hugo was so nice to show me around at the dev camp:

I was surprised to read my name in the current Der Spiegel’s cover story about Google. They wrote about privacy issues of today’s mobile phones and used TwittARound as an example. That’s great because TwittARound’s intention is social criticism, too.

It’s like 2005 again. Cory Doctorow gave an interview in Second Life today. It was nice visiting the Metaverse again. But Second Life is still the same.