A few weeks ago I was busy finding a graduate project. And during that time augmented reality looked very interesting. Most of you know what it means, for the others here a small explaining line from wikipedia: Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.
I’m not going deeper into this subject I only made this post to show some of the cool examples:
Marketing
Mini Cooper (youtube)
TvTotaal / Wall-e (youtube)
Ways to use it
BMW: new way of fixing a car (youtube)
ARSights: 3D buildings (youtube)
ARSights.com
Ray-Ban: test sunglasses on your computer click “virtual mirror” to see the example and test it yourself
iPhone
tonchidot: iPhone app to tage everything around you (youtube)
Augmented reality navigation (youtube)
Games
LevelHead: Use AR as controls (youtube)
EyePet Trailer: Playstation 3 virtual pet (youtube)
Hardware
AR glasses Images projected on your glasses
FLARToolKit
The FLARToolKit is a flash toolkit to create your own Augmented Reality software that supports Away3D, Papervision3D and Sandy. So if you are exited after watching all those videos and are eager to make something yourself you can start HERE
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