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Sunday, I clicked a link from Twitter friend, Daynah, the PHP Princess . It took me to a Seesmic video posted by Eric Rice. The video is an augmented reality demonstration that gives us a glimpse into the future. Eric also blogged about the potential of augmented reality at ericrice.com/spin.
This kind of stuff is what The Big Trip is all about. I’d travel the world if I could, capturing innovation in HD and sharing what I find. I want to be Indiana Jones in reverse! Buying a bus is a pain in the butt, it turns out. You can track our progress (and lack of it) at BigTrip.TV.
Obscura Digital has also been showing off some beautiful tech. They combined their multi-touch research with a Musion Eyeliner holographic projection system to demonstrate the future of presentations.
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August 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
if you liked that augmented reality video you have to check my former company’s work on the field, i can assure that you’ll love it!
http://www.ydreams.com , they lot’s of cool stuff :).
And for really cool environment interaction with augmented reality check out their lab video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5N32xGRaw.
Cheers.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
id is not pronounced ” i d “, but “id”. Just take off the “d” in “did” to say “id” right.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Cool stuff! Although there’s someone ironic about filming Edison fiddle with artificial light with HD gear.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Aww! Thanks for the link Cali! After seeing Eric’s video, he went on Ustream and showed us some more augmented reality stuff! Ask him about the car chase on a coffee table. :)
August 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
wow… pretty neat on all fronts.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Hiya, thanks for the link.
A couple of resources… ARtag.net is a kit for Windows, and that particular demo came from t-immersion.com…the demo that Daynah was referring to was some students from Georgia Tech using a virtual world (Second Life) to create a small scene that was displayed on a coffee table. And a blog I like reading that I just found is gamesalfresco.com –they link to everyone.
Playstation3 owners can play with a pseudo-augmented reality game called Eye of Judgment, which uses RL cards and the PS Camera to affect the action on screen.
Fun times ahead!
August 6th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I’m really sorry but i think this episode was rather lame and uninteresting. Hope the next one is back at the old mix of interesting news.
August 7th, 2008 at 6:13 am
I have to wonder if Eric Rice was paid by Starbucks to take that drink during the video. :P Nevertheless, awesome technology! I especially liked the 3D model attached to the card. Reminds me of the old Megee and Me movies.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:52 am
How can I read the show notes?
August 7th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
@Vladimir The shownotes are the text about the comments – the explanation of what the show is about and links to find out more information.
August 7th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Thanks for bring up Erc’s video Cali, that is something that i am working on myself.
It is both a theory that will lead to physical product. But it seems like the easiest way to represent the augmented reality will be through video, to capture the intention; but the greater question is how we can bring this to life. There are the walking treadmill for virtual tour of Popae, but that is more of a commercial product that consumer item; what can we do? what can we make to overlap analogue and digital data in our living environment? Is the projector our holly grail for this quest? or do we have to wait for the holograph machine? who knows.
I am trying to contact Eric, hopefully he will reply and share some thoughts about his research. But again, thanks Cali!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I l_o_v_e_d the features about the Seesmic video and Obscura Digital technolgy. Most certainlly, this is real technological progress in that realm of inter-connected networked machines we call “the Internet.”