Experimenting with ARTag

Delayed blog writing:

Monday 2nd Feb

Today the book Augmented Reality - A Practical Guide arrive in the post... delayed after a very snowy and icey couple of days. This book gives you an introduction into AR, and uses ARtag to explain and walk you through various examples of AR.

DISCOVERED: magic lens AR (this is what I will be doing)

Firstly, we went to http://www.artag.net/ and downloaded the example codes and AR library, with this we were able to quite easily run some applications to create AR

Here is the first test, a simple 2d image augmented on a printed out cybercode.


Here is an arrow augmented on an array of cybercodes which allow it to still be visible and the correct directed even if some are covered.


Augmented fish...


Here is an example of multiple augmentations. There is a simple code file which we edited to include one of our own images



Ordered a Gizmondo bundle for handheld AR...