Tag Archives: markerless

AR T-Shirt Fitting Room

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

While this video is from last fall, I hadn’t seen it before, so I wanted to put it up because it shows high-quality augmented reality for a “Magic T-Shirt” fitting room.  The technology hails from the scientists at the Fraunhofer Instituite for Telecommunications (HHI).  … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality Bikini

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

In this video an AR bikini is pasted over the model showcasing a manually selected marker.  The video isn’t doesn’t show much new, but I’m curious about the software kit shown.  It looks like user-friendly AR software in development since the … Continue reading →

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Ghostwire AR Game

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

The Swedish Game studio A Different World has brought the award-winning AR game Ghostwire to the Nintendo DSi.  The move to the platform of the DSi should help bring AR games to kids and gain a wider audience for the … Continue reading →

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Link-a-palooza

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I’m typing this post on my kids computer since my motherboard crashed on mine.  I had some more in-depth posts planned, but until I can get my computer up and running (new MB is currently installed and now partitioning the … Continue reading →

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Steal This Idea – The Marble Run

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

If you’ve ever bought a marble run, rollercoaster or any other type of plastic track that requires hours of set up and falls to pieces at the wrong touch, then you’ll appreciate this idea.  Last week, my wife and kids … Continue reading →

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AR Weather

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

This wearable augmented reality system simulates different weather systems in an outdoor settings.  The hail simulation looks realistic because of the way it bounces off the ground.  This research project is from ISMAR2008.

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Core Tools for Augmented Reality

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

In this video Simon Wynda (I’m guessing at the spelling) gives a Core Tools for Augmented Reality demo.  This demo was featured at the Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab on May 6th. Simon demonstrates a geospatial AR application that recognizes its … Continue reading →

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The Path to Augmented Vision

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Augmented Vision will be available in 2015. Am I prophetic?  Delusional?  Or merely guessing?  How does an deluded prophetic hand-waving guess sound? The reality is the development of complex systems like Augmented Vision will take something more than putting the … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality Primer

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I’ve been wanting to do a nice post showing the basics of augmented reality for those that might be new to the technology, but Rusty has saved me the trouble by making this nice post explaining the basics.  I’m going … Continue reading →

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SREngine’s Item Recognition

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Rouli at the Augmented Times found an interesting AR project from a Japanese developer, Sein Kanemura.   The key facet of his engine is that it is markerless.  While I couldn’t quite pick up the exact method of his markerless technology, … Continue reading →

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