Tag Archives: papervision

Mirrors, Shadows and Occlusion

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Rendering real-time graphics comes with more challenges than just slapping a 3D object onto an AR marker.  Real life comes with some complicated visual effects like mirrors, shadows and objects overlapping each other.  For AR to be realistic, these challenges … Continue reading →

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Trekkie AR Enterprise

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

While I’m excited to see the new Star Trek movie this weekend.  I’m not as excited to see another AR marker marketing promotion.  At Experience the Enterprise you can play with your very own Enterprise including some special effects like photons and warp … Continue reading →

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AR Plug-In for Google SketchUp

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

AR Media, a brand of Inglobe Technologies, has released an AR plug-in for Google SketchUp.  Google SketchUp is a program that can create, modify and share 3D models.  The plug-in allows for use those models in an AR environment.  They … 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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AR Anime Girl

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Warning! The video contains a Japanese anime AR cutie.  Over on Spill they bring us three videos.  One is the Eye of Judgement video that has been seen many times around various AR sites.  The middle AR anime video shows us how simple … Continue reading →

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Toyota iQ AR Video

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I’m almost embarrassed I haven’t seen this earlier, since I work for Toyota, but better late than never.  Not much to it, but it’s nice to see AR popping up in my neck of the woods.  The best part comes … Continue reading →

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Text Bubbles

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Not all applications of Augmented Reality immediately jump out as revolutionary, but the revolution will happen with a million tiny papervision cuts.  Pek Pongpaet shows us on his blog how he converted his tweets to AR text bubbles. It would … Continue reading →

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