Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Augmented Reality... Second experience

Delayed blog writing:

Sunday 1st Feb

Today I explored handheld AR, basically any device with a camera, a screen and a reasonable processing speed can be ultilised to perform AR. The most common platforms being PDAs, UMPCs, camera phones and some handheld games consoles.

I found an interesting website which demonstrated projects of handheld AR:

http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/handheld_ar/

Which is fantastic at outlining the various facets of AR interaction, and some of the projects that have been carried out are great, after seeing this I emailed Daniel Wagner the website's creator and a scientific leader in handheld AR, to which he replied.

"There is unfortunately very little tutorial material on AR in general. There is basically nothing about AR on mobile phones."

But a light at the end of that tunnel is he pointed me in the direction of his thesis on handheld AR, which at 150+ pages is quite a definitive guide... all thats next is learning to program... *cough*
I've also emailed metaio.com

FOUND: http://www.mikkoh.com/blog/?p=129 a nice little walk through of FLARtoolkit

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