Not the snazziest of article titles but I couldn’t think of anything catchier. That point brings me to the addendum topic of this blog post, which is the unsexy nature of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes in the AR movement. But first, let’s see what’s going on in the scene.
W. Lee, Y. Park, V. Lepetit and W.Woo, showed off their paper “Point-and-Shoot for Ubiquitous Tagging on Mobile Phones,” at ISMAR10. These two nifty videos show off some crazy-good in situ markerless detection, including an x-wing fighter, complete with shadows, flying over a parking lot. Cue the movies:
The addendum point I wish to make today is that how much we forget all this amazing technology has been built on the backs of some amazing researchers. Back over a year and a half ago, most of the content online was from researchers. Now-a-days, we’re usually only showing the commercial videos which tend to be better constructed.
However, there’s something truly awesome about the unvarnished videos from pre-hype days like the ones here. You can almost feel the excitement when they got the project working and rushed to the camera to record their efforts and upload it to YouTube–more Wright Brothers than Donald Trump.
So if you’re a researcher and I’ve missed your AR research video, please send me a note, along with some background information on the project and I’ll be happy to highlight you here on Games Alfresco.
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I’m sure I’ve seen that video before
https://gamesalfresco.com/2010/08/31/online-image-learning-the-next-big-leap-in-mobile-ar/
:)
There are also very unvarnished videos from a founder of Total Immersion that were done several years ago that can stil be seen :
It goes from the hard to understand at first :
to the typical “in your garage” performance demo :
There are many more on this account, but it’s not updated anymore.
Not really a research, but a founder of Total Immersion had the habit to put on Youtube lots of unvarnished videos a few years back. Some are really interesting to see the kind of tests a company has to do to go from research to mass market. For instance, researchers will care about tracking a public building seen from an Iphone, but what about what happens when passer-bys are actually there ? Etc.
Here is a link to a typical “in the garage” video, from it you can find many more :