Augmented reality in Flash

posted Nov 19th 2008 6:10pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: downloads hacks, home entertainment hacks, misc hacks

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Digital Pictures Interactive has put together a great augmented reality demo. Unlike many others, it’s entirely Flash based, so there’s no install necessary. Print out the custom symbol and try it out for yourself in your browser. Augmented reality refers to any mashup that combines computer generated content with a live video stream. We see great potential for this technology and the large number of consumer webcams would certainly help consumer adoption. Video demo embedded below. Read the rest of this entry »

Fun with Radiohead’s data from ‘House of Cards’

posted Jul 21st 2008 1:10pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: laser hacks, misc hacks


Radiohead recently released the 3D data that was used to create the video for their song ‘House of Cards’. You can see the original video and grab the data from here. [Micheal_z] sent in some of the results of his groups playtime with the data. The first effort involved some data translation. Then they created an atomizer of the head and put it up on their ungodly huge 8160×4000 pixel multi-touch display. The video above was created by tracking the background image to orient and overlay the projection.




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