Augmented Reality

Previously…

• We saw the “Sixth Sense” Ted Talk

• Object recognition and video overlay is Augmented Reality

History

• In 1990, Tom Caudell coins the phrase Augmented Reality while at Boeing helping workers assemble cables into aircraft (Wikipedia)

Processing 1.0 Library

Using your computer’s webcam

Fiduciual Mark (the program searches the video stream for this symbol)

The yellow wireframe box is a virtual object

Processing 1.0 Library

Screen shots don’t do this justice – check out the videos for yourself.

Moving the Fiducial Mark moves the 3D virtual object too!

Processing 1.0 LibraryVideo overlay is also possible. Here the Fiducial Mark

is completely replaced by video.

Human Face as a Fiducial MarkHere a Processing Library for Human Face Recognition is used to track the location of the face and overlay an image.

This idea is taken from The Laughing Man character in Ghost in the Shell

Commercial Product

ARSights

Download 3D Objects from the Google 3D Warehouse and view them in Augmented Reality.

Note the Fiducial Mark

Show 3D Prototypes in Augmented Reality

Screen shots don’t do this justice – check out the videos for yourself.