Cubo Realidad Aumentada

Hola Amigos!

I am in Bilbao, Spain on the last day of the Jetlag BIO festival. If you didn't already know we are here to run an Interactive Augmented Reality stand that is a kind of information point for festival goers. I will write a more detailed post with pictures soon but for now you can go to urbanreaction.org, click on "interact" and follow the instructions to have a play with the "Augmented Reality Cube" or as I like to call it "Cubo Realidad Aumentada".

FLAR Adaptive Threshold

FLAR-What? I hear you ask.

It simply means that FLAR Augmented Reality now works in varied and (more importantly) variable lighting conditions. Which means great news for us when we go to Jetlag BIO in september!

Eric Socolofsky is the guy behind this fantastic addition to the world of FLAR (though not the inventor as it were). Read more at his blog

Vote For Mr Squidling!

Mr Squidling - Augmented Reality Demo from Gordon Everett on Vimeo.
So I entered the Augmented reality contest over at the Papervision3D forum. You can see my entry here. You need to have a webcam on your monitor that you can point down at your desk just in front of your keyboard. Then you need to print out the special marker (link provided on the page) and follow the instructions.

Voting starts tomorrow!

My Augmented Reality Progress

So I'm currently using Google Chrome to upload images. Its a ridiculous situation but its the only browser that works....

So anyway, just thought I'd post a screenshot of my Augmented reality project I'm working on. Its hard to explain but, well here goes..... I'm holding a piece of card with a marker on it (something like the one below) in front of my webcam. When the webcam registers it the computer draws a box in its place and out of this box all sorts of things jump, including my name. Pretty cool eh? This is the demo that got us a gig at Creative Capital in Canary Wharf. The actual version we use there will be a bit different. I'll be sure to post a link for when its over so you can have a go yourselves.

Augmented Reality Webcam Trickery

If you don't know what Augmented Reality is then I'll tell you.

It's magic!

Well nearly, it's webcam magic. There's open source software available called ARToolkit in c++ or there's FLARToolkit for the Flash platform which is really taking off at the moment. In a month or two you'll probably be sick of it. This demo was put together by John Lindquist with some help from Seb Lee-Delisle and it rocks! Check out more AR examples on John's blog, Seb's blog or at squidder.