Category: AR

Students from my alma mater put together a promising prototype to show how augmented reality works in conjunction with the Android API (you know, that google cellphone thing). Their location-based tool might let you augment your handheld-video-view with city annotations, road marks, waypoints and lets you find your favorite apple store or to pinpoint your pals in the city’s districts. […]

The CARCADE guys did a pretty cool demo of an augmented reality game. The concept: while driving your car down the road you will see a spacecraft in the streets (when the tech is ready eventually projected to your car window) and steer it. The coolest part: the skyline of the city will collide with it (i.e. computer vision and […]

At the Saint Elisabeth church in Paris the team “VIDA” from the Computer Sciences Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences did a pretty neat demonstration of augmented reality – real-time visualising sounds from that huge organ. People! AR is flooding over society more and more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGakj4kofk The video could need some editing, though. If you don’t have time jump to […]

A cool new weird spicy kind-of-augmented reality application comes from a Berlin artist called Julius von Bismarck: he hacks your reality when taking a picture. For you unnoticed at first, it will reveal your screwed up sweet spot touristic shot only once you take a look at your frame! Check out his website and see the video and description for […]

Cam-Trax has released a video for their camspace project. They do real-time 2D tracking of arbitrary objects using off the shelf webcams. The quality looks pretty stable and even the fastest movements (throwing a rod through air, flipping it) won’t kill the tracking. Take a peek look at the game demos (AR Pong, etc.) and wait like me for the […]

All documentation to the Augmented Reality Music Production project (by Daniel Hienert) are now online as well! Play augmented drums on a stereo projection screen and use AR technology to compose music, play instruments, mix up your tracks and replay midi files to learn by watching and doing… Check out the media section and the videos in Project: AR Musicproduction […]

Finally, I put up my documentation and the videos to the “Augmented Television” project. The idea is to overlay television images with additional annotations and 3D graphics in real-time – but not a priori or at the broadcaster side, but instead at the very end of the chain: I do the overlay inside the television set of each viewer in […]

Oxford University presented their AR tracking at ISMAR 2007. Their approach for marker-free environment feature tracking looks pretty promising. Be sure to check out their website and the latest videos.