More Augmented Business Cards

More Augmented Business Cards

A couple of months ago, the ARSphere was gushing over James Alliban's augmented business card (the one with the pixelated talking 3d face).

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

That nice little creative work led Alliban to recently launch Augmatic, a company that provides augmented reality services, and yes, among them is a personalized augmented business card.

Of course, Alliban is not the only one in the augmented business-cards-business. We have previously featured Toxin Labs. This week sees another implementation, by one Burton Posey, which can only be described as cute (of course, you can choose a more menacing avatar):

Augmented Reality Business Card - Avatar Concept from Burton Posey on Vimeo.

Says Posey:

This is an idea I'd been kicking around in my head since February. I wanted to find a way that a company could deliver a catchy identity for themselves. Avatars, be it the Mii's on the Nintendo Wii, or an Xbox Live Avatar, have become extensions of the people who use them.

You can try his implementation over here. I wonder if any of the guys at ISMAR 09 is going to have augmented business cards.