Thursday 2 October 2008

A-B-C of Augmented Reality (I)

Hi everyone!. We're back with a new entry. Today we're gonna talk about Augmented Reality, one of the main concepts of this project.

Basically, augmented reality is a real time union of the real images we can see at every moment, with other computer-generated. That's just a concept, but it gives us some hints about what we're talking about.

This technology adds information to the real world allowing the users a new type of interaction, in which the focus is not in one specific point, it's everywhere around the user. I mean, a 3D information.

To simplify it, think in someone with a sheet with an square drawn on it. Just like this from Tum' web (Thanks!):



Well, it's just a sheet, nothing special happens.

Ok, now, take a look to the next image with augmented reality.


Maybe you're thinking that it's just a drawing onto the first image. Well, look at this Quicktime video.



Not enough? Here we have a Youtube video showing us a similar test, but, this time with some advertising.



We hope you've learned something new about this interesting technology. We'll continue talking about it in the very next days.

See you!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Amazing!!!!!