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3D printer provides woman with a brand new jaw.

In this operation, a 3D printed titanium scaffold was steeped in stem cells and allowed to grow biocompatible tissue inside the abdomen of the recipient. No detail was spared: it even had dimples and cavities that promoted muscle attachment, and sleeves that allowed mandibular nerves to pass through - plus support structures for dental implants the patient might need in future.

Impressive 3D printing!

Contact lenses let you see AR on lightweight glasses, in development by Innovega. A ‘special filter’ in the lens enables the eye to focus on projected wide field of view megapixel images projected on the inside of the glass, whilst not impairing your ability to focus on the real world (I think).

(via Viodi)

Augmented reality manikin makes designing clothes easy.

The 3D tracked manikin and controllers enable the user to cut and shape the design on the manikin whilst previewing it on a screen. I was going to suggest that projecting the result in real-time on the manikin would be good but realised that it would only be useful for fabric on the surface!

The work has been done byAmi Wibowo and three other designers at Igarashi Design Project where they appear to have loads of interesting projects, such as:

• Walky - Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot through Personalized Gestures Expression of Fingers 
• Push-pins - A Tangible Programming Interface Using Physical Tags for Home Automation
• RoboJockey - real-time, simultaneous, and continuous creation of robot actions for everyone

(via One Per Cent)

PS3 Move + camera rig + projection mapping = impressive ‘immersive’ promotion for PS’s video store. The irony being that the actor would not feel immersed at all because all they see is a jumble of skewed projections. The three videos were produced by three different directors: (Memo Akten, Barney Steel and Robin McNicholas)

The PS3 Move controller tracks the camera’s position and orientation, which was fitted into an auto-levelling steadicam MK-V-AR rig (video example of use). 

Based on my understanding from the explanation by Thomas English (the cameraman) and his scratch reel here’s what’s going on in a nutshell:

The real camera is tracked in studio space and a virtual camera follows it in a wacky virtual 3D space. The view that this virtual camera sees is projected onto a virtual 3D model of the room. Virtual cameras in this space capture what they see (highly perspective-skewed projections that only make sense from the observer’s point of view, just like these 3D illusion pavement drawings) and these are sent to the projectors in the real room. The real camera sees the projections from their intended point of view. 

The Move’s 3D tracking is impressive and looks like it could provide a very cheap virtual studio technology. 

As an aside, it’s great to see more stuff being projected everywhere, such as on water and on toys. As projectors get smaller and cheaper expect to see more of it embedded in the environment. 

(via ElectricTV)

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Fashion shop Net-a-Porter.com goes Tesco AR. Well, similar principle, enabling customers to interact with the products sold on an on-line store. Here we see an evolution of the Tesco implementation where, for both technical and product/audience reasons, Net-a-porter have used NFT AR where as Tesco used QR codes.

(via NET-A-PORTER: Augmented reality pop-up store fashion app promo | ElectricTV.com)

Toyota’s concept car is a touchsceen and does augmented-reality. Cool.

(via Toyota Fun-Vii = Gamers FunCar | Thomas K. Carpenter)

Tiny 3D Printed Car! (With Moving Wheels)

The Objet Eden 3D printer can deposit  two build materials and a removable support at the same time enabling something like this car with functioning wheels and axles to be printed in a single step with no assembly required. 3D printing and 3D scanning is transforming the toy industry.

Read the full blog post for more info and the STL file to print one yourself (or more likely get Industrial Plastic Fabrications to print for you).

Related, Cambridge University have just succeeded in inkjet-printing graphene electronics. Graphene is a wonder material with potentially amazing electrical and structural qualities.

(via ObjetBlog)

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