This. Is. Awesome!

Posted at 6:23 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Manifesto

woah, thats freaking sweet.

Posted at 6:36 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by nick

imagine coupling this with a pair of video goggles! board games will never be the same.

Posted at 6:51 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by polgmail.comymath

if adobe continues down this path, flash might even reach the level of java applets, 10 years ago, sometimes :D

sorry, but I’m too bedazzled by the really amazing speed, I still thought of flash as “kinda cool 2D vector engine with bad ECMAscript implementation attached”.
well it still takes a lot more coding skill, to get stuff running at this (high) speed in flash — in a real language, using a real compiler, you could be more wasteful and slackish and still reach interactive speeds. thus, as a slacker, I prefer not flash, makes me think less about optimisation :)

Posted at 6:52 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by pascal

if you dont want to print it open it in a separate window and point your cam to it! Ha, saved a sheet of paper! Then you can even change the size. Hum do they have a Pillsbury dough boy? I wanna poke his stomach! This is really cool.

Posted at 8:15 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by arthur92710

While tag based AR was fun once, now it just seems tacky to me.

Posted at 8:35 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by tom

any idea why I’m just getting a black screen? it’s not turning my camera on…

Posted at 9:31 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by tscot

If you have Nokia N95 or similar Nokia smartphone (Symbian OS 9.x)you can download games which use similar, albeit more advanced technology. If you don’t you stll can check the videos:
http://cellagames.com
Other people develop this tech for PC(ARToolkit), Linux, Android, windows mobiles, iPhone etc. though not all of those apps available for download now, many are just experiments yet.

Posted at 10:52 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by serge

“It’s entirely flash based, so there’s not install necessary”. -ah….I believe you will need to install *Flash* if you don’t already have it?

Posted at 1:15 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by fractalrock

Also, see this BoingBoing post for a similar…possibly nsfw version of this tech.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/13/your-virtual-girlfri.html

Posted at 1:21 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by fractalrock

A W E S O M E!

Posted at 1:31 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by ak Yip

I’m going to keep posting until a.) somebody stops me b.) I can fall back asleep..

To use this flash app full screen and full speed, download it to your local machine: http://interactive.digitalpictures.com.au/wp-content/uploads/augmentedreality/sample.swf
(in your browser…file/save page as)

Now use your browser to open the file locally. There are probably flash viewing apps for your OS too….but firefox is a sure thing.

Posted at 1:48 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by fractalrock

One cool aplication I can think of for this is a business card. Have the image on the back, and the website on the front. Point them at your website and get them to follow the instructions to get a virtual you talking to them.

Posted at 2:44 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by Dave

wow, just wow. thank you for posting this, i watched the episode of prototype this where they did this, and i was sort of mad that joe didn’t post the code on his blog. it might have been zoz that did it, but whatever.

Posted at 4:41 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by mxjf

seems like a home version of what CNN did on election night

Posted at 5:35 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by AbuMaia

@Dave:
fantastic idea…

Posted at 3:19 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by fractalrock

So if I printed out an army of these symbols would it create an army of little green guys??? That could be useful.

Posted at 3:54 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by RidoKilos

heh, sorry for the plug but i got the ep on alluc.org, but damn, back when i used do flash…. it wasnt anywhere able to do this, by the way, open gl has been done in java, when a believable quake 3 engine is able to run in flash then it will surpass java, hey joe, wanna post code? thatd be fun to play around with

Posted at 8:47 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by frogz

So has anyone been able to download the .swf and play it on their computer because I cannot seem to get it to work.

Posted at 5:53 am on Nov 21st, 2008 by squirrel007

hmmmmm. as the marker with “Hiro” on it is definitely the 7+ years old one from the AR Toolkit, could it be that those guys simply used that C to Flash compiler I’ve recently seen demoed somewhere and just hacked ARToolkit a bit? If so, I believe they are obliged to release the source (ARToolkit is GPL).

Floe

Posted at 7:16 am on Nov 21st, 2008 by floe

This is pretty neat, it will make for some great games someday. It took a while to finally get it to work on my macbook. To get the camera to work with a mac:
control-click on the flash window, go to “Settings…”, and then select the webcam setting and switch the webcam type as “USB Video Class Video”

Posted at 3:14 pm on Nov 21st, 2008 by kungwill

@squirrel007 and anyone else who tried my suggestion to download the swf and play it locally:
Don’t bother. It doesn’t work, for whatever reason.

So my suggestions for trying this, after a bit of trial and error:

1.) when printing the pdf, make sure you print it actual size (it will be a box about 7cm square, in the middle of the page) By default, Foxit reader wants to print it expanded to page. Don’t let it, it doesn’t work well that large. That’s what she said.

2) it is important that the printed box be against a light background….don’t fold up the page like the guy in the video; leave it. Even better, set it on a light colored desk.

Posted at 11:16 pm on Nov 21st, 2008 by fractalrock

Even if they use GPL, they are only required to release the source if they redistribute their program, and even then only to the people they destribute it to. I doubt viewing a flash applet counts…

Posted at 1:12 pm on Nov 22nd, 2008 by mydnight

Wow this is very impressive I would like to see this implemented into a game where you cast spells and stuff. That could be very cool for a webcam do you guys not think?

Posted at 3:15 pm on Nov 22nd, 2008 by Wade

@Wade

Yeah It would be really cool to mixed with a tabletop RPG or something like D&D, where you can print different symbols for different kinds of units (squares, triangles, circles, etc) And see them fight in via the web cam in you Desktop !

Posted at 1:22 am on Nov 26th, 2008 by uLe

This would be awesome for product size/placement visualization. Imagine printing out a product symbol on a sheet of paper and putting it in the corner of your room then with the webcam you see your prospective entertainment center on your wall.

With some good maths based off a standard 8.5×11in sheet of paper the consumer would be able to tell if the unit will be to large.

I just bought a Sieg X3 vertical milling machine and i made a cardboard box with the dimensions for bench placement and holly god was I wrong…

Posted at 2:19 pm on Dec 5th, 2008 by Blu

everyone put the same animated “green eye monster”..i’ve managed to import many still obj, with tones of baked texture, but nobody had said nothing about animated object(with ik, without bones..i dont know ). how do they worked!! how ??? i ve asked many people , but nobody respond

Posted at 2:06 am on Feb 11th, 2009 by cris

Saw this at a Star Wars exhibit a year or so ago. It was a game where you built a spaceport on tatooine using cards that each represented a different building. Relative placement was important, and you could rotate the table to see the spaceport from different angles. It was VERY cool.

Posted at 8:46 am on Feb 22nd, 2009 by Brian

pretty cool…after doing a little research managed to build one for Earth hour at earthhour.org/earthinyourhands Basicaly its what it says you hold the earth in your hands, added a reflection from the video feed, set the suns position depending what time it is. On the dark side you can make out the city lights. Also added google geocoding and take a snapshot which can be saved to the desktop.

Posted at 6:30 pm on Mar 24th, 2009 by Chris J

Al we need now is a pair nice 3D goggles with a build in webcam and we can go DragonBall Z on eachother!
The down site of this technolgy: imagine how popular the sims game will be with this stuff. My sister wil go besurk and never leave the pc

Posted at 2:30 pm on May 14th, 2009 by Sailor