Just in time for Christmas, or maybe not…maybe it’s the new version of those electronic picture frame things that you keep on your desk, a new way to while the time at the office maybe instead of solitaire. Vint recently posted about a 3D virtual girlfriend, and I kind of lost track of it, Vint being a blogging superstar and all, it’s just hard to keep up.
In any case, if tickling a little animated 3D character isn’t your thing, maybe a little cute squishy animal is more up your alley:
Papervision - Augmented Reality (extended) from dpinteractive on Vimeo.
The above character is a test of Papervision motion tracking.
But back to the Japanese girlfriend, here she is:
Just admit it, you’ve placed your pre-order for the Japanese Immersionalist Chick ten minutes ago! :d
There is something fake about these AR stuffs. Like CNN’s fake holographic display.
Maybe the jap text mentions it but I doubt since this is one thing (actually the most important one) that a lot of these AR videos fail to mention: you DON’T actually see anything on your desk. Everything is happening on your screen.
The Jap text mentions it all right. And most people will realise that the cube does not contain a hologram projector?
(They specify you need the software, cubes, sticks & webcam and you will see the results on your screen.)
Naw, this is easy, the kits are out there, I’ve put up vids on Seesmic and YouTube. Most Augmented Reality work is around 5ish years old and starting to emerge more and more. Watch the mobile space in particular + various flash things like papervision. This will be one of the blindside technologies (I hope) that will disrupt the heck out of those that cling to 3D -so- passionately as The Absolute.
Good points Eric. In fact, the first example above DOES use Papervision which is mainly why I posted it - first use of PPV I’ve seen like that (I’m a huge fan of Papervision).
Point us in the direction of the videos you’ve posted if you have the chance.