Posts tagged reality
Halloween Augmented Reality Special
Oct 27th
Following are some AR tricks and treats I’ve collected over the last month, which make me think this Halloween should be declared as the first augmented holiday. Judge for yourself.
First we have the interactive Halloween mirror from Instructables. This little do-it-yourself project will let you and your party guests try out gory and scary masks without spending money or buying makeup. Just remember to turn-off the screen saver before installing it in your living room. (Note, you can stop watching this video after the 1 minute mark, it just repeats itself)
Taking the same face detection approach, Disney lets you become one of the villains from their animated movies. However, their Halloween Time application spice things up by including a mini-game, so kids may find it interesting: Read the rest of this entry »
Augmented Reality: Tonchidot
Oct 26th
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonchidot/
*It’s gonna be some kinda scene in the streets when these Tonchidot dudes
rule the augmentiverse.
Chris Hughes: Augmented reality made easy – UPDATE
Jun 23rd
Hacker Chris Hughes, who won internet fame by being among the first to jailbreak the iPhone, demos an open source software project that makes creating “augmented reality” a cinch. He shows how a virtual object (like a 3D spaceship), in cahoots with live footage, can interact with the real world using just Adobe Flash and a web browser.
source: TED
UPDATE: it comes out that there was some misleading information around the demo Chris Hughes did on TED. Below the comments of Chris Anderson, curator of TED:
Our posting this morning of Chris Hughes’ mini-TEDTalk from TED@PalmSprings has prompted a flurry of aggrieved responses [GIF] from the open source software community.
The talk was a two-minute demo of “augmented reality” software (in which real-world video is combined with computer-generated graphics). Hughes showed it working inside a browser using Flash and won enthusiastic applause from the live audience. But when we posted the video today, commenters felt he was claiming too much personal credit for the software and had not mentioned the two development projects on which it was based, Papervision 3D and the FLARToolkit.
Real 3D gaming and virtual worlds on your mobile with OTOY
Jun 23rd
otoy rendering
OTOY is a serverside rendering service that can stream 3D games to your computer through any web browser. It let’s you play games like Crysis in HD quality in your browser. You just have to open an (mobile) browser and just get into the game with no real plugins installed.
OTOY has been working with microprocessor manufacturer AMD since 2006 to make the idea of server-side graphics processing a reality. If all goes as planned, 3D rendering will become just another computer task that jumps from the client to the cloud Read the rest of this entry »
Ways that alternative reality gaming is changing TV
Jun 21st
Kevin Slavin, the co-founder of Area/Code that is known from their iPhone game Drop7, is speaking about the future of TV at the recent 5D Immersive Design Conference. He ends with a strong point, contending that any screen without a mouse ships “broken”.
Kevin Slavin points out that television at its best is a massevent in realtime. The future of television in that context, with all the new tech and development at hand, will be quite exciting.
The blending of gaming and information tech and the ubiquity of mobile devices is going to supplant the existing passive viewer paradigm of the old television industry and replace it with something much more beyond and interactive than that. There will always be a place for linear narrative withint the emerging models and there will always be mass audience real-time events, but they will be so distorted by the emerging differences that it will be almost impossible to compare them directly to anything that has gone before.
source: millworks
Will Augmented Reality be the future of advertising?
Jun 19th
Will Augmented Reality change our marketing perspective?
A few days ago we wrote about Layar. An Augmented Reality browser for mobile. It is at this moment only available for Android smartphones, but soon also for other phones with a compass like the iPhone 3GS and HTC Magic.
But will Augmented Reality be the future? By seeing the personal demo at Engadget you could say it will be Read the rest of this entry »
Using augmented reality shooter to get dedicated customers
Jun 17th
ARhrrrr is an augmented reality (AR) shooter for mobile camera-phones, created at Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD-Atlanta). The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. Point the camera at the special game map to mix virtual and real world content. Civilians are trapped in the town, and must escape before the zombies eat them! From your vantage point in a helicopter overhead, you must shoot the zombies to clear the path for the civilians to get out. Watch out though as the zombies will fight back, throwing bloody organs to bring down your copter. Move the phone quickly to dodge them. You can also use Skittles as tangible inputs to the game, placing one on the board and shooting it to trigger an explosion Read the rest of this entry »
