Archive for October 27th, 2009
Time Travel with Augmented Reality
Posted by Tom Carpenter in AR Games, augmented reality on October 27, 2009
Augmented reality can help us see back in time, making history come alive.
The presentation at ISMAR from the Beijing Instituite of Technology showed how they could use AR to reconstruct the Yuanmingyuan, or “Garden of All Gardens” without damaging the current appearance of the ruins. The Yuanmingyuan was burnt down by Anglo-French forces in 1860 and their project uses AR to project the original architecture onto the site.
They plan to utilize a coin-operated viewer to allow tourists to see the AR version of the site.
This type of historical eye is also being demonstrated in Cluny France to show what the abby looked like before it’d been destroyed during the French Revolution.
I predict (since we’re all busy predicting the AR future) that you won’t be able to visit a historical site in five years without an AR viewer to see the past. Old civil war sites won’t be the same when you can watch a thousand Union troops storm the Confederate lines. Maybe kids will cheer when dad fires up the old Studebaker for a trip across the country to revisit historical sites.
But the real question is–will AR be able to help when you have to drive eighty miles out of the way to visit the giant ball of twine?
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25 Things I Learned At ISMAR09
Posted by Tom Carpenter in augmented reality on October 27, 2009
Inspired by Joe’s “50 Things I Learned at ISMAR“, I’m going to take a crack at 25 things since I was only there for half the conferance.
1. Participation in ISMAR doubled from 2008 to 2009.
2. In the next six months it’s important that a few AR companies have success so funding will flow for the others.
3. Projections should be used in big interactive spaces to allow for a shared augmented experience.
4. The Disney Imagineers showed us how AR can make a difference right now.
5. HMDs will bring stripper poles to every corner.
6. Magic lens is or isn’t the answer for AR.
7. Lots of great research isn’t making it to commercial usage.
8. Apple must open up their video API, now!
9. Don’t wait. Use the technology at hand to make the killer AR app.
10. Place is the new social networking.
11. Augmented reality is NOT following Moore’s Law (but it can with enough money.)
12. Disney teaches us that the technology has to be invisible.
13. Sell the experience not the technology.
14. Stop trying to reinvent old games using AR. Create your own category.
15. Augmented reality should be about 4D (don’t forget about time!)
16. We need indoor locative solutions.
17. History can be reborn with the right magic telescope.
18. Light-weight, fashionable HMDs aren’t ready yet.
19. Conferances at the same hotel at the Mountain Dew Tour makes for interesting people watching.
20. I’m excited about the future of AR.
21. I saw at least five applications for AR on my factory floor, but no one is developing a commercial product for me to purchase.
22. Leverage the military to fund development for commercial.
23. I learned as much in conversations outside of the conference rooms than I did in them.
24. Don’t forget to tell a story.
25. Augmented reality pets don’t chew on the furniture (unless you want them to.)
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