We have covered quite a few art projects using augmented reality as their canvas, but nothing of the scale of Biggâr. Created by Sander Veenhof, can best be described as a virtual sculpture composed of more than 7 billion blocks encompassing the whole world. Using Layar, you can not only view Biggâr but also interact [...]
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The Kinect has become the all-in-one sensor bar of choice for modders everywhere. The ability for the Kinect to do facial and gesture recognition, sensing 3D under any ambient light condition, combined with a rapidly expanding hacker tools, has made it indispensable for true AR. While the Kinect Hacks site has been documenting the every aspect of the accelerating [...]
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If you have been reading this blog for a while, you might remember Albert Hwang’s concept videos titled “Spatial Computing”, discussing futuristic augmented user interfaces. I was fairly impressed with them, that’s for sure. Turns out Hwang worked on each one for six months, which might explain why he never got to producing a third [...]
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Helen Papagiannis opens her talk with a question: “Think about how you saw something new for the first time.” She goes on to relate that to the magic of her augmented reality piece at the Ontario Science Centre and how the first movies invoked the same sense of wonderment. I agree with her assessment [...]
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No doubt about it, this week was under the sign of Kinect. Dozens of amateur programers used the OpenKinect drivers to create wonderful, many times AR related, demos. These and more in this week’s linkfest: Kinect hacking is nice, but the biggest news of the week is coming from Layar which raised another $14M. Follow [...]
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I know that envy is allegedly a deadly sin. But, common, what a man supposed to do when witnessing Oliver Kreylos amazing work with a hacked Kinect. If you were living under a rock for the last couple of days, Kreylos is the guy behind the 1 million views strong video, showing 3d video capture [...]
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We’ve come so far since the days of shadow puppets on the living room wall.
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While Microsoft denies that the Xbox has been hacked, pure semantics I tell you, the new Kinect system has been unleashed for uses other than the ones planned by the giant of the redwoods. Adafruit Industries offered a $3,000 prize which was collected by “Hector” for completing the task. The hacking was important enough to get noticed [...]
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Here are some of the stories you might have missed this passing week from around the AR-sphere: Total Immersion uploaded videos of the two keynotes given in their AR Immersion conference. I find the Adobe one is quite boring, but TI’s CEO, Bruno Uzzan gives a very good talk on the past, present and future [...]
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