Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps at TED
In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. Read More…
Posts Tagged ‘Augmented Reality’
Watch Pranav Mistry’s “The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology” demos at TED
We’ve already seen MIT researcher Pranav Mistry’s SixthSense projector-based augmented-reality system in some cool demos, but he just gave a TED talk and his latest ideas are the wildest yet. At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. Read More…
Frantz Lasorne’s “Toys and Augmented Reality” video at ComputerLove
The project of Designer Frantz Lasorne combines the joys of virtual reality, and tangible toys. Using Augmented Reality Tangible User Interface via head-mounted glasses, and old toys, a new environment is created that allows childs to play new games. Read More…
Look Into the Future with Autodesk Labs: Augmented Reality
Long before Autodesk Labs showed augmented reality on AU main stage and in the Discovery Space in the AU Exhibit Hall, Eddy Kuo and Brian Pene had this prototype working for adding 3D computer models to real world scenes at the Customer Briefing Center at One Market in San Francisco.
This is typically made possible by inserting a marker into a scene, viewing the scene with a video camera, and using computer software to replace the marker with an image of the model. As the marker is moved, the computer model is correspondingly moved, and the streaming video is updated. All of this happens in real time.
