Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling. Augmented Steps This “haptic” floor can mimic the look and feel of sand.Credit: Yon Visell Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot.
Such a tool could perhaps be used for augmented reality applications, tele-presence, training, rehabilitation or even as virtual foot controllers. The modular “haptic” floor tiling system is made up of a deformable plate suspended on a platform. Between the plate and platform are sensors that detect forces from the user’s foot. And the plate can give off vibrations that mimic the feeling of stepping on different materials.
Yon Visell, a researcher at McGill’s Center for Intelligent Machines and first author of the paper, says the tiles could be used “either for human computer interaction or immersive virtual reality applications.” FLARToolKit/en. Spark project Wiki ナビゲーション (Japanese page) What is FLARToolKit ¶ AS3 ported version of ARToolKit. Actually, FLARToolKit is based on NyARToolkit, Java ported version of ARToolKit. The license ¶ FLARToolKit is free to use for non-commercial applications under the GPL license. For more information about the conditions of the GNU General Public License, version 3, click here.
Plug Into the Smart Grid. Aurasma. Google Goggles does not do facial recognition but it could... are you ready for the implications that presents?! The big news out of Hot Chips on Monday was Google's promise to have its Goggles visual search app ready for the iPhoneby the end of 2010.
Google Goggles project lead David Petrous also provided the inside scoop into how Goggles deciphers your images in the cloud. But the most interesting takeaway from Petrous' talk was his repeated insistence that Google Goggles does not do facial recognition—interspersed by a long tutorial on how well it would work if it did. Augmenting your reality Augmented reality is a step toward intuitive search, like having an insightful personal assistant following your every move, answering not just "what am I looking at? " but intuiting exactly what you want to know about it and why.
For a machine, contextualizing and anticipating what you actually want is pretty difficult. It gets harder when you're pointing at something ambiguous. 6.5 seconds later three results came back. Augmented Reality « Dedric Mauriac. I started playing a little bit with Augmented Reality tonight.
Perhaps it is more like augmented virtual reality. I was mainly playing with ARtag. I don’t have a webcam to play with at the moment, so I decided to see what I could do with virtual worlds. Thankfully, a program from ARTag had some sample patterns that I could upload, as well as a program to read images besides video camers and then Augment Reality to display a computer generated image. I had quite a few problems getting the image to work. I found that image with multiple patterns caused problems, as well as images that were too large. The augmented reality showed an image of myself in-world standing behind a giant floating fish. With the plug-in archtecture that the Second Life Viewer 2.0 is going to expose, I am curious if we can add in plug-ins to augment virtual reality. AR Business card « James Alliban. Inspired by this guy, I just got a fresh batch of business cards from moo.com.
There’s not really enough space on a business card to explain yourself in any detail so I thought I’d extend it using augmented reality. I recorded a short video bio and created a 3D grid of coloured planes. These planes are updated with the colours from the video and extruded depending on the level of brightness. This is now online for all to enjoy. First print out this (or open it on you’re phone). Mac users with iSight camera who are experiencing a black screen might be able to get around this by Following these steps: Right click on the app and select settings.
Failing that apparantly it won’t work if you have any other apps that use the iSight open at the same time, so close PhotoBooth, Quicktime etc. Thanks to JereDog and Bish for these workarounds. Education Futures - Timeline 1657-2045. Inflammatory Speech and Bumpy Roads. Layar - mobile augmented reality browser. Not Just Reality - Where the real, augmented and virtual worlds meet. Prepare Yourselves: Augmented Reality Hype on the Rise. Augmented reality -- or the addition of a layer to the world before your eyes (aka the "real world") using technology -- is the next big tech trend.
Already making its debut in everything from mobile apps to kids toys, "AR" will clearly soon be talked about by everyone the way they used to talk about "social media" and "Web 2.0" before that. While augmented reality has its uses -- although many of them just involve oohing and aahing at nifty apps -- this trend is already in danger of being over-hyped, even though it has barely gotten off the ground.
AR Apps We've Seen So Far We've been fascinated by augmented reality for some time now, especially after we got wind of a new mobile application built for Google's Android platform called Layar. The app, an augmented reality browser, "layers" sets of data on top of your mobile phone's viewfinder as you point the camera at the city around you. AR Discovered by Marketers. Time to Dial Down the Hype?