February 2010
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps
The most impressive bit is where the live video image is mapped in real-time to the interior of the market. Well, that’s what it looks like but unfortunately Blaise did not finish what he was saying on this.
(on TED.com)
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Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop
A (possibly cynical?) view of the future of advertising in an AR age.
“The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in...
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This Digital Graffiti Wall from Canadian-based Tangible Interaction provides stencils which is a neat idea. They were commissioned to produce one for the 2010 Olympic Winter Village. It’s written in C++ using openFrameworks, a framework library for creative experimentation (maybe a little like processing?).
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Off-the-shelf camera hacked to grab high-speed video.
Temporal Pixel Multiplexing sends each frame to a different set or pixels on a large sensor using a chip of mirrors, enabling high-resolution images to be reconstructed from frames. This approach is a lot cheaper than professional high-speed cameras. There are more details here.
A simpler, portable, out-of-the-box (but more constrained)...
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