Archive for September 10th, 2009
Facial Augmented Reality from Playstation Eye
Posted by Tom Carpenter in augmented reality on September 10th, 2009
Engadget and Gizmodo have both reported this morning on the facial recognition technology called the Vision Library from Sony.
It’s called the Vision Library and, once a face has been analyzed, the machine can tell it apart from others, determine orientation, identify gender, tell what expression that face is… expressing, and then superimpose some big-eyed anime head right on top of it real-time. We fear this might take some of the fun out of cosplay night, but could make life rather more interesting for freaks with bovine fetishes.
The video shows amazing stickiness to the AR face. If they can do this for the PS Eye when it comes out, then we’ll be seeing this technology and others like it spreading faster than originally anticipated. If this kind of work can be done by smaller machines (i.e. - smartphones) in the future and AR glasses become reality, then expect to have your latte served to you by a Wookie at your local Starbucks.
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ISMAR09: Manufacturing Discussion
Posted by Tom Carpenter in Industrial AR, augmented reality on September 10th, 2009
ISMAR09 Sympsium & Expo is right around the corner and I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be not only attending ISMAR09, but I will be presenting during the Manufacturing section on Monday and joining the panel discussion as a representative of Toyota. I’ll be reviewing the possibilities of augmented reality in an industrial setting, including a project that I’m working on with Metaio. Hopefully I can enlighten participants on the constraints and challenges of implementing augmented reality on the factory floor.
I’m announcing this on my blog, so if anyone has any requests for topics during the discussion, I can be sure to bring them up. I was only able to confirm attendance last week, so there’s still plenty of time to update my presentation.
Not only am I excited about presenting, but I’m more excited about getting to meet a lot of the people I’ve interacted with throughout the AR world. I’ll be there from Sunday until Tuesday afternoon, so if you’re going to be there then, I’d love to meet up, chat and maybe, share a drink.
To reach me before or to contact me during the conferance, email me at tom.carpenter (@) tema.toyota.com or twitter to thomaskcarpente. (Yes, the name is missing the ‘r’ since my name was too big for twitter.) I’ll be tweeting updates during the conferance (as well, I use it regularly for posts and other augmented reality related news.)
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