This is not the most prurient example of augmented reality we've seen, and it may not have an obvious movie tie-in, but we will give it bonus points for being educational. Visitors to an exhibit titled "A Future for the Past," currently at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, can peep context specific info and virtual reconstructions of Satricum and the Forum Romanum, superimposed on large scale photographs of each respective site. There are two types of hardware on hand -- both the MovableScreen-packin' iMac stationary display and the UMPC devices allow the user to seemingly view through the photos, exploring specific points of interest. There's no telling how much a setup like this would run you if you wanted to, for example, let your friends and neighbors virtually peruse that massive Lego city you built in the garage, but make sure you let us know when you get it up and running. That would be so sweet. Video after the break.
The site for Assassins Creed 2 contains a bit of AR, which i've never seen before, and damn it startled me a little too much.
Basically you have to print the symbol and show it to your webcam, but if you have enough screen state (and a wired non-integrated cam, yes I'm talking about notebooks and DELL and Apple's mounted webcams displays), you can just open the pdf in another window and retro-feed it to the flash based app.
Unless the screen is semi-transparent or equipped with a backwards looking camera there is nothing "augmented" in the reality I see documented. This guy can't see the 'augmented' photo on the wall, and he could be doing this inside a lab or the subway and experience the same immersion...
Bring that apparatus to the center of real ancient ruins and You have my attention.
I find the interface a little poor... things just seem to pop up constantly and make it confusing. Also, is turning the display itself the best way to control it? It looks clunky...
AR technology is awesome but this one seems like a less than extraordinary interpretation of it.
“Getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that's fascinating to us.”
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posted Apr 13th 2009 11:09AM
oh yeah go to a cafe and chill then go to the museum and see some heady art
Suckers! Learning will never be cool.
I'll see you guys in summer school.
This is very cool. Wait until AR goes mobile...
We have quite a few other AR examples on our blog here - http://weareorganizedchaos.com/index.php/2009/03/13/augmented-reality/
IMO, the Topps interactive gameplay is still the best example of AR's potential...
This is amazing!
The fact that this museum is next door to my university offices in Amsterdam is even more amazing!
Judging by the display, it runs on Apples 'Reality Distortion' technology. I hope they liscenced it...
The site for Assassins Creed 2 contains a bit of AR, which i've never seen before, and damn it startled me a little too much.
Basically you have to print the symbol and show it to your webcam, but if you have enough screen state (and a wired non-integrated cam, yes I'm talking about notebooks and DELL and Apple's mounted webcams displays), you can just open the pdf in another window and retro-feed it to the flash based app.
augment: to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent;
yes, I'm that guy.
Pfft...Steve Jobs ripoff.
Unless the screen is semi-transparent or equipped with a backwards looking camera there is nothing "augmented" in the reality I see documented. This guy can't see the 'augmented' photo on the wall, and he could be doing this inside a lab or the subway and experience the same immersion...
Bring that apparatus to the center of real ancient ruins and You have my attention.
I made a podcast last week about Augmented Reality, and showed it in use with the Topps System, Spore Skeleton Viewer, the GE, & Mini website... Kewl stuff, and fun to play with. http://www.vizworld.com/2009/04/special-edition-video-augmented-reality/
I find the interface a little poor... things just seem to pop up constantly and make it confusing. Also, is turning the display itself the best way to control it? It looks clunky...
AR technology is awesome but this one seems like a less than extraordinary interpretation of it.