a computer science prof (Bo Brinkman) who happens to be married to one of
our librarians is working on ShelvAR, a shelf-reading app:

     http://shelvar.com/

there's some youtube videos too....


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:11 PM, William Denton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm writing a chapter about augmented reality and would like to include a
> couple more examples of it in use in libraries and archives.  Are any of
> you using it for something exciting?  I know about SCARLET at U Manchester
> [1] but would love to hear about other work.
>
> I'm especially interested in anyone that's made their own app or otherwise
> gone beyond just popping up POIs in Layar or Junaio or adding an image or
> video overlay to something in print.
>
> While I'm here about AR, the YouTube recording of Geoffrey Alan Rhodes's
> 2012 talk "AR on AR: Occupying Virtual Space" is worth a look as an
> interesting way of mixing and discussing the real and the virtual.
>
> And also, if you haven't seen the video showing of Meta's SpaceGlasses
> [3], it's freaky.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> [1] https://teamscarlet.wordpress.**com/<https://teamscarlet.wordpress.com/>
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=SyAkUJCgDUk<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAkUJCgDUk>
> [3] https://www.spaceglasses.com/
> --
> William Denton
> Toronto, Canada
> http://www.miskatonic.org/
>