Archive for January, 2010

AR Dev Camp in Frankfurt

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

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:

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Just read my name today in Der Spiegel

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

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.

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