3 Tools for Creating Augmented Reality for iPad

Augmented Reality seems popular at the moment although many people think it is still beyond our reach as content providers. This has changed recently with the development of a new range of Apps that allow you to implement AR features on your iPad. Have a look at the three we have featured here for a peek at the way educational information could be presented. If you know of other please let us know so we can include them in the list.

1. Junaio - FREE

The new junaio 3.0 elevates the iPad 2 camera capability to a new level. Point your camera at whatever it is you want information on. This "Scan the World" feature can recognize pictures, QR codes and even product barcodes. Keyword search is still available, but the scanned image itself works now as a search query to get to content in junaio, making other kind of markers obsolete.

Junaio is an advanced mobile augmented reality browser, a mobile companion and instant source of information about places, events or bargains. What’s on at the movies, where is the nearest cash dispenser, taxi stand or subway station? Finding your way inside exhibitions, getting added information on products, ads or news articles. This and more at your finger tips with junaio, your mobile companion. 

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/junaio-augmented-reality-browser/id337415615?mt=8

2. Daqri -FREE

View augmented reality enhanced QR codes created on daqri.com with the daqri App! Keep track of previously visited daqri codes in the History. Save daqri codes you really like to Favorites to check out later. Take photos with augmented reality and post them directly to Facebook!

daqri is an augmented reality platform that allows you to publish and view amazing augmented reality experiences, without writing a single line of code. With the daqri app, you can scan daqri QR codes to gain access to all kinds of content including videos, images, maps, phone numbers, links, and 3D augmented reality.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/daqri/id421508232?mt=8

3. Layar - first 10k views FREE

Layar is a mobile app for discovering information about the world around you. Using Augmented Reality (AR) technology, Layar displays digital information called “layers” into your smartphone’s field of vision.

Share your augmented experiences with your friends and followers. Simply connect to Layar with your Facebook or Twitter account and share your layers, spots and screenshots within your social networks.

Find your way around in Augmented Reality with Layar's intuitive user interface. Start directly from your most favorable and recently used layers. Easily explore brand new and featured layers.

Last year we introduced 3D objects in augmented reality. Now, 3D objects are no longer just waiting to be discovered. They can come alive!

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/layar-reality-browser-augmented/id334404207?mt=8

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iOS 5 download without computer

My iPad 2 is running iOS 4.3. Now I want to update the device to the new OS. How to download iOS 5 straight onto the iPad without a Mac or PC? Unfortunately, you can't. You need a Mac/PC to get the initial iOS 5, and use iTunes to upgrade.

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Shutterstock for iPad

Shutterstock for iPad is a photography app that provides an incredibly impressive way to search, browse and organize more than 16 million beautiful stock photos, illustrations, and vectors. You are able to view high-res preview images, and share lightboxes of images via Twitter, Facebook and email.The app is amazing and fast. It's a great way to explore the library , pull together lightboxes and

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Augmented Reality for Classrooms

AUSTRALIAN researchers aim to build toolkits for teachers to help them use augmented reality techniques in the classroom.

Increasingly used in games, but equally applicable to education, augmented reality combines the real and the virtual. Viewed through a tablet computer's camera, computer visualisations can be grafted on to real-world objects.

University of Canberra Teaching and Learning Centre senior lecturer Danny Munnerley said the project would look at developing mobile augmented reality kits to enable teachers to create tailored learning opportunities. The team also aimed to encourage augmented reality projects across all disciplines at university level.

Danny Munnerley says the project will look at developing mobile augmented reality kits to enable teachers to create tailored learning opportunities. Picture: Michelle McAulay and Matt Bacon Source: Supplied


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iPad Apps for Watching Video

The majority of these free Apps only work in the US, however the last App - Air Video is available everywhere.

Netflix	XFinity	ABC
TW Cable TV	Optimum	Hulu Plus
Vevo	PBS	Watch ESPN
	Air Video

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iOS 5.0.1 brings multitasking gestures to original iPad

The iOS 5.0.1 will bring multitasking gestures to the original iPad, such as use four or five fingers to swipe left or right between apps. Thess new features will help you much easier and faster to do things on original iPad.The iOS 5.0.1 also fix the iPad 2 Passcode bypass security issue and battery life issues.

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iOS 5 calendar today not update in month view

My iPad calendar worked fine in the monthly view. After installed iOS5, the refresh of the today "blue box" at 00:00 am is not working and doesn't update at day change. To get the calendar updated, I have to change to week view.How to fix the calendar issueUnsync with wifi and unsync with calendar, and then sync with calendar to reinstall.

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Cannot open rented movies on iPad iOS 5

I rent 6 movies on iPad 2 runnning iOS 5 today. When I want to watch them, I get the error message "cannot open". But the rented videos are working on my other iPad with iOS 4.3.I think there is an iOS5 issue with authenticating the rental time frame. Just log into a WiFi network and play the movies again. Works for me.

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Creating Books on the iPad

Book Creator for iPad: $7.49
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/book-creator-for-ipad/id442378070?mt=8

eBook Creator: $4.49

‘eBook Creator’ is a simple and easy ebook creation application. It's interface is designed for all ages and skill levels so that young kids are able to make ebooks using the app. Good quality ebooks using the  image brightness/contrast adjustment, voice recording, background musics, etc.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ebook-creator/id448273828

Ebook Magic: $4.49

An easy way to make custom epub books. A book maker for specifically for iPad. iPad users now have the ability to easily create and export their own custom photo books directly from their iPad. With eBook Magic’s easy-to-use interface, users can quickly place photos on pages, add text, and share with their friends in minutes. 

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ebook-magic/id424877762?mt=8

Demibooks: FREE
Demibooks Composer is the first iPad-based authoring software for creating interactive books. Composer is affordable, versatile and incredibly easy-to-use. Create your own book apps with realistic physics, animation, sounds and visual effects. Share your stories with your friends via Composer or  publish your book app back to the App Store!

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/demibooks-composer/id462838680?mt=8

StoryPatch: $2.99

Now you can help your child's creativity grow with Story Patch, a beautiful new application for the iPad that children can use to create their own picture books. With hundreds of included images, easy-to-use controls, and the ability to import photos, your kids will be creating stories in no time! 

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/story-patch/id388613157?mt=8#

And thanks to Scott Meech for letting me know of another great App to include - Creative Book Builder.

Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in minutes. Creative Book Builder can import document from Google Docs and parse HTML output into chapter. Create unlimited number of chapters add title, description, images, videos, audio recording, music, links, and lists. CBB lets you sort your content's ordering within a chapter and customize your cover image.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/creative-book-builder-create/id451mt=8

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SoundCloud for iPad

SoundCloud is the popular social music network app that lets you capture and publish your audio clips from your iPad. You are able to quickly record a voice using the microphone, listen to tracks and comment on waveforms. It's very similar to its Mac App.SoundCloud app is cool and simple to use. With the social features of the service, you can comment on a track right from your device and share

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TV Shows button lost after iOS 5 upgrade

After I upgraded my iPad to iOS 5, the video files show up under TV Shows in iTunes, but the TV Shows button is missing in the Video App on iPad. I can't see my TV Shows and there is only my movies. That's a clumsy upgarde.To get them to show up in the TV section, you have to put in the Season #. You can do a search for them, you will find them and play them on your iPad. This is an Apple issue.

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Ambitious iOS Apps - Fraser Speirs

This is an interesting article and subsequent list from Fraser Speirs about Apps that are pushing the boundaries around iOS 5. Some of these Apps are the obvious ones and not all of them are specifically educational but it makes for a great list. It also gives us, the consumers a set of higher standards to be expecting from Apps developers. If we have the capability to use these new features then we should not just be expecting them we should be demanding them - especially those features that make the learning experience richer or deeper for our students.

I like all of these and would add one myself that I stumbled on the other day - Gamebook Adventures: Temple of the Spider God. Good for decision making and risk taking as well as a great book for getting boys to read. Enjoy!

Read the full article: http://speirs.org/blog/2011/10/30/ambitious-ios-apps.html

See the list of Apps: https://docs.google.com/ambitiousappsspreadsheet

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