… to help find popular content.
The Amsterdam based Mobile Augmented Reality company called Layar have added an extra function to application which lets you view popular content in your area and get rid of all the ‘noise’.

They have also release an Augmented Reality content store a few days ago where developers can sell their creations.

Face.com has mapped thousands of faces and has now opened is software API for others to create their own face recognition applications.
some examples here, i must admit I think the API has greater potential than the examples given.

A really interesting article on how brands can engage consumers via there lust for status in the modern world.

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo.

I believe mobile is the future, I also believe 3D mobile will be hitting the main stream late this year or early next.
Why?

Because Samsung SCH-B710 have already developed a smartphone that is 3D and doesn’t require glasses.

Julien Flack, CTO of Dynamic Digital Depth, who has spent more than a decade perfecting software that can convert 2-D content to 3-D in real time. It could help solve the biggest problem with 3-D: the need for special glasses that deliver a separate image to each eye.

Flack’s software synthesizes 3-D scenes from existing 2-D video by estimating the depth of objects using various cues; a band of sky at the top of a frame probably belongs in the far background, for example. It then creates pairs of slightly different images that the viewer’s brain combines to produce the sensation of depth.

Samsung has licensed 3-D content generated by Dynamic Digital Depth for its latest 3-D phone, the W960, released in March. Research firm DisplaySearch recently predicted that by 2018 there will be 71 million such devices worldwide.

3D content can be found here on yabazam

PayPal launching its Mobile Payments Library to select developers, the company today announced it’s opening its new platform up to the entire iPhone development community.

It seems like it’s been a long time coming, but PayPal’s new Mobile Payments Library is a quick and easy way to add checkout functionality for physical goods and services sold through apps on the iPhone, without having to worry about keeping customers’ personal financial information secure.

The company announced the platform will be available for other mobile OS platforms in the future, but is already boasting some unique iPhone apps that have already built-in PayPal’s new mobile payment technology.

A new Library from the Barbican group.
Its well impressive with a vast library, but before I list some of the nerd facts, take a look at the end results.

Some of the library features

Standalone Mac & Pc Applications
Platform-Native Windowing And Event Handling

Screensavers
Create Native Mac Os X And Windows Screensavers

Internet I/O
Load Media Via Http And Ftp Natively

Full I/O Abstraction
Seamless I/O From Flat Files, Memory, Resources And Networks

C++ Core
Internally Reference-Counted Design Prevents Leaks, C++0X Std::Thread For Multithreading

Cocoa Touch Support
Targets The Iphone & Ipad; Provides A Growing List Of Device-Specific Features

Ui Events
Full Keyboard, Mouse (Including Scroll Wheel), Window And File Drag & Drop

Xml Dom Parser
Built-In Object Oriented Xml Parsing Api

Serial Port

Core Classes
Perspective And Orthographic Cameras, Triangle Meshes, Obj Loading, Geometric Primitives

Opengl Core
Multisampled Antialiasing, Dynamic Switching Between Full-Screen & Windowed Modes, Convenience Methods For Rapid Development

Opengl Classes
Full-Featured Classes For Textures, Fbos, Glsl, Vbos, Lights, Materials And Display Lists

Tile-Based Renderer
Render Arbitrarily Large Images (For Print & Other Applications)

Gui Parameters
Gl-Based Gui For Powerful, Convenient Manipulation Of Parameters

Math Primitives
Full-Featured Matrix, Vector And Quaternion Classes

Utilities
Colors, Random Numbers, Perlin Noise (Up To 4D, With Analytical Derivatives)

Geometric Primitives
Poly-Bezier Paths, Polygons, Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes, B-Splines, Least-Squares B-Spline Curve Fitting

Robust Image I/O
Png, Jpeg, Tiff, Bmp & Others Via Platform-Native Libraries. Preservation Of Premultiplication And High Dynamic Range Information

2D Image Processing
Professional Quality Image Resizing, Edge Detection, Desaturation, Adaptive Thresholding

High Dynamic Range Imaging
Full Support For Floating Point Hdr Pixel Processing In Image I/O, Opengl And Software

Powerful 2D Rasterizer Via Cairo
Full Featured Vector Renderer Exports To Svg, Pdf, Postscript, Eps, Coregraphics, Gdi And A Pixel-Based Antialiasing Rasterizer

Fonts & Text
Font Enumeration, Glyph Path Extraction, Unicode Text Layout And Rasterization, Custom Fonts Via Flat Files Or Resources

Video Capture
Webcam Support Via Platform Native Libraries

Full-Featured Quicktime
Frame Extraction, Native Accelerated Opengl Path, Audio Playback, Fft Analysis, Asynchronous Network Loading

Audio Support
Loading Standard File Formats, Access To Raw Pcm Data And Fft, Microphones

More information and download the Library here