Edge: August 2009 - Learn to augment reality using a webcam and Flash CS4. By Samuel Asher Rivello Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer science that involves combining the physical world and an interactive, three-dimensional virtual world.
While mainstream audiences are now becoming aware of AR, it is not new. Its background is intertwined with decades of computer science development. Virtual reality (VR), AR's more familiar counterpart, is the replacement of the user's physical reality (particularly that which is experienced through sight and hearing) with a computer-generated reality. The idea of a virtual experience is exciting — creating entertaining and educational sensory encounters that do not exist in our everyday lives. From a consumer standpoint, it seems that AR advances have come out of nowhere to surpass VR advances. Let's take a look at augmented reality, its current uses, and its future potential. Applications of augmented reality The video game industry has released major augmented reality products for more than a decade.
Augmented Reality Wiki. Getting Started with Augmented Reality / FLARToolKit. Table of Contents Overview What is Augmented Reality?
Augmented Reality is a technology that allows you to superimpose images into real-time environments. For the purposes of this tutorial, you just need to know that it reads a marker (shape/symbol), interprets the angle and size of that marker and then allows you to place objects at that size and position on the screen (or whatever your medium is). Here are a couple example videos: Mini Video and the GE Site What is FLARToolKit? To start with ARToolKit is the development package that has allowed developers to tap into the power of Augmented Reality. What do I need for this tutorial? In this tutorial, we are going to use FLAR Manager, which is a framework setup to make the combination of Papervision 3D and FLARToolKit easy and quick to setup/use. If you would like to simply use FLARToolKit (or just get a little more information about it) clik on the following link: Otherwise, download FLARManager (using v0.1 in this tutorial) from .
ARTag. Tutorial - Quick and Easy Augmented Reality from SketchUp/3DMax etc. Creating your own Augmented Reality is, thanks to ARTAG, staggeringly easy.
Yet behind the simplicity lays a serious potential for both the hobbyist, local government use and the professional practice. The only requirements are a webcam, printer and the ability to export models in either .obj, .wrl or .ase formats. As such if you have a model in SketchUp, 3DMax or any other common 3D package you can now view it on your desk using Augmented Reality. Step 1 Download ARTag and unzip the contents to a folder. Step 2 Open your newly created folder - in our case under its default name of 'artag_rev2k_sdk_windows_1207' and navigate to the 'patterns' directory. Step 3 Open both base0.gif and toolbar0_7.gif as pictured to the right. Lay both these printouts side by side on your desk or workspace.
Step 4 Making sure your webcam is plugged in navigate to the 'compiled_demos' folder and double click on 3d_augmentations_usb.exe. Step 5. Projects - WCL - University of South Australia. The Wearable Computer Lab conducts world class research in a variety of fields, including augmented reality, wearable computing, 3D Computer Graphics, and human/computer interfaces.
This page gives an overview of our work, for more information on a project please visit its project page. Spatial Augmented Reality Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) is a branch of AR research utilising digital projectors as the display technology. The lab conducts research into novel interaction techniques and systems for SAR, presentation of information, and advanced rendering techniques. Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality For several years, the Wearable Computer Lab has been at the forefront of outdoor AR research. New Input Devices and Hardware Our research into interaction techniques and HCI issues sometimes requires us to develop new hardware and input devices.
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