Showing posts with label Museums and Exhibitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museums and Exhibitions. Show all posts
Augmented Mammals of the past
Last week I wrote about using augmented reality to experience hypothetical animals from the far future. Now, the American Museum of Natural History in New York brings us augmented mammals of the distant past*:I don't have my web camera to try it out, but as you can see, there's nothing special there. Currently, you can only play with the batodonoides, the smallest mammal to ever live, though you can leave them your email to get an update when they add other models. It's just a nice break from all those commercially oriented AR applications.
Via Tethys News.
* Well, to be truthful, the exhibition is called extreme mammals, and some of the mammals are contemporary and are still living among us (if you happen to live in Australia).
Augmented Animals of the Future
It's old news, but I'm allowed to be late since I had to overcome a language barrier. Since 2008, Le Futuroscope, which is a really cool theme park in France with many cinematographic related attractions, has a ride named "les Animaux du Futur" (animals of the future). Based on the BBC show "The Future is Wild", this ride, created by Total Immersion, takes you through futuristic landscapes and lets you interact with the animals occupying them.Since its inception, the ride had a home version, that enabled you to see some animals come to life on an AR marker. To welcome a new version of the ride, launched last month, the home version went one step further, and enabled users to play with the dreaded "octopus monkey", without any need of printed markers. It looks like great fun -
You can try it yourself at this mini-site (via Development notes for ourselves)
Weekly Linkfest and Site News
Hey all, today I'm happy to bring you some exciting news. Ori from Games Alfresco and yours truly have decided to join forces in hopes of creating a central hub for all augmented reality fans and professionals. At first, I'll publish some of my posts both over here and on Games Alfresco, starting from today's linkfest (due to some technical problems, it may take some time for this first post to appear in Games Alfresco). Please leave a comment and tell us what you think about this collaboration!And now for some other AR news from around the web -
- Visitors at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam can see a reconstruction of the Roman Forum overlayed on top a current image of the site, using a movable iMac display (via engadget)
- JSARToolKit, the old augmented reality tool kit, now for Javascript, as long as you read Japanese, (via development memo for ourselves)
- Microsoft Israel employees are having fun creating a semi-augmented reality car race.
- Want to read augmented reality news in Polish? Then this is the site for you (but I wish they would link to their sources, *cough*).
- Tom Carpenter on AR concepts to a manufacturing enviroment. I've just found his blog, and his other posts are interesting as well.
It's iVisit's SeeScan, an application under development for Windows Mobile that intends to help the visually impaired, but could have other uses for AR (a bit more information here).
Oxford Augments your Museum Visit
I know, I used the "* Augments your Museum Visit" template just yesterday. However, unlike Alcatel-Lucent, Oxford really does have a working technology demo to brag around with. Robert Castle of the Active Vision Labratory at Oxford University has posted a few videos earlier this week showcasing his "Parallel Tracking and Multiple Mapping" technique for augmented reality. In a nutshell (and I can't say I understand it in any deeper sense), this technique uses SIFT for object identification and SLAM for camera tracking, in order to identify and augment the current scene.This technique has won the ISMAR 2008 tracking competition, and the best paper award at ISWC 2008. Apart from that, the following video is cool -
You could see the other 18 videos and read more details here.
Alcatel-Lucent Augments your Museum Visit
As I predicted here, Alcatel-Lucent just posted another AR concept video to Youtbue. The video shows how a visit to the Centre Pompidou would like using an augmented reality device. Nothing really revolutionary is shown, and the interface looks clunky, but I do like the transformation of Picasso's Guernica to three-dimensions.This is yet another video attributed to Stephane Dufosse, who, according to his Linkedin profile is a business development manager at Alcatel-Lucent, responsible for "business development of video applications" including augmented reality.
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