http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/ Engadget Comments for Flapi: YDreams' augmented reality mascot http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 19th 2008 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 19th 2008 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 20th 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 19th 2008 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/
When you can make holograms, that will be good. :-)]]>Apr 19th 2008 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/But wait it's blended in with a real person, why didn't the movie industry think of th.. oh wait..
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The fact that this isn't pre-recorded cinematics is what's amazing. It's live fake reality. Next up: stereoscopic contact lenses that allow this live fake reality to be constant, like actually being in the same room (or appearing so) as your friend in Europe. I'm sure this and the upcoming fiber optic "The Grid" internet will make this all too creepily possible soon.
]]>Apr 20th 2008 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/I just don't see anything new apart from perhaps the shadows on real 3D objects, but as I previously stated I'm not sure they aren't cheating a bit with that and pre-calculated the legs 'objects'.
]]>Apr 20th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 19th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/And also the shadow goes the wrong direction compared to the scene, which is a bit odd since they control the whole setup and they could have filmed it from another angle to make it fit, and to show off the shadow
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Kind of eerie to think what "reality" will be like pretty soon. Kind of like the Matrix, only not as cheesy.]]>Apr 20th 2008 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 20th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/
There are many other field this could be used for aswell when adequately modified for that purpose. Live interaction with digital characters or objects where the performer can see exacly what their doing at that moment in time.

Not bad.]]>Apr 20th 2008 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 20th 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/
Here is just one of the tools for doing this...
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6837710&siteID=123112

Maybe I'm missing something but I really don't see what's so groundbreaking about this...

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Unless I'm mistaken, that link is to a piece of software used to make live animation character etc. This technology uses live animation mixed with live reality. Sure movies use reality and animation, but neither are live.]]>Apr 20th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/]]>Apr 20th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/
Wrong...
TV DOES in fact do Real Time animated character interaction and has done it for quite some time.

I first saw this back at the NAB convention in 2005 from a company called Kaydara. Autodesk bought a company called Alias which subsequently bought Kaydara. Both Alias and Kaydara were involved in real time 3D character animation.

Once you have the real time character animation mixing it with real time images is relatively easy. TV has been doing Chroma Keying for years to put humans into CG images in real time.

It sounds like YDreams may be using existing tools and technology to develop innovative advertising techniques more than anything else.

I didn't see anything on their website that indicated they were doing anything more than integrating existing technologies for new applications.]]>Apr 21st 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/flapi-ydreams-augmented-reality-mascot/Apr 20th 2008 7:47PM