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Edutainment using Augmented Reality

November 23rd, 2009

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AR Digital Binocular Station brings Museum to Life

The Digital Binocular Station (DBS) is based on a traditional binocular station, but adds a layer of interactive, 3D stereoscopic digital content between the user and their view of the real world.

This DBS is in the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand – 10 artifacts are glowing, and when looked at for 3 seconds, come to life in various ways. The main aim was to add a deeper layer of context and understanding to the artifacts – how they were made, how they were used or experienced in their original environment and the stories or legends that are associated with them.

Bring your location to life and create a new revenue stream:

Increase interest, relevance and accessibility of your location with this unique, compelling installation.
Create another revenue stream with its pay per use (e.g. coin-operated) features.
Peace of mind – robust, self-contained, easy to use, and has a small footprint.
Affordable – available to lease, and can be paid for by a fraction of the revenue collected.

source: http://www.DigitalBinocularStation.com

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Augmented Reality of the Transept in Cluny France

October 30th, 2009

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There’s a screen (using augmented reality technology) near the transept in the abbey at Cluny, which is a movable screen that features what the rest of the church would look like if it hadn’t been destroyed during the Wars of Religion and during the French Revolution.

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Historical reconstruction using Augmented Reality

October 28th, 2009

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Digital reconstruction of Yaunmingyuan garden using Augmented reality view

AR-view is an augmented reality device which could be used for digital reconstruction of historical sites. In this video, you can see this device used in Yuanmingyuan for public, an famous historical site in China.

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Halloween moment

October 27th, 2009

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Nice way to use the marker

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Sketches become real

October 16th, 2009

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In-Place Augmented Reality 3D Sketching of Mechanical Systems

In Hit Lab New Zealand and the Visual Media Lab at the Ben Gurion University, Israel Hand sketching is used as a natural way for creating Augmented Reality mechanical experiments.

The user can sketch experiments and watch them simulated in 3D.

The user interacts with the system by creating, modifying, and presenting sketches to the camera.

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Dollhouse Virtual Echo gets Augmented

October 4th, 2009

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Ever wanted a pint-sized Eliza Dushku running around your computer monitor? Well now you can.

Virtual Echo is an application released by Fox which uses Adobe Air to put Echo on your computer. You can interact with her, or just let the nine random persons appear and leave you a little message as you go about skiving off browsing the internet.

With Desktop Echo you can turn any computer into your own little Dollhouse by installing a miniaturised Echo on screen who will appear at regular interviews to help motivate you as you work.

You can increase the interaction with Augmented Reality Echo, print out a Dollhouse card icon and by holding it up to your webcam you can control a digital hologram of Echo.

download it from here: http://www.fox.com/dollhouse/virtualecho/

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Flyar – Augmented Twitter

September 28th, 2009

Rating: +3 (from 3 votes)

Augmented Reality Twitter visualization app

Flyar is a screensaver, Twitter visualization application that uses Augmented Reality and gesture interaction. It enables users to see themselves in real time, inside a pc screen, surrounded by virtual birds that flutter about or fly towards them to deliver incoming tweets. Developed by YDreams.

Get it at: http://ww2.ydreams.com/flyar/

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Augmented Reality Pool table

September 18th, 2009

Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)

Robotics + Augmented Reality demo

The RCVLab at Queen’s University demonstrates Deep Green, a pool playing robot, and ARPool, an augmented reality system for teaching the science of pool.

(Turn off your audio for your own safety)

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Augmented Earth

September 14th, 2009

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The future of Google Earth

At the Georgia Institute of Technology are introducing methods for augmenting aerial visualizations of Earth (from tools such as Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth) with dynamic information obtained from videos. They goal is to make Augmented Earth Maps that visualize the live broadcast of dynamic sceneries within a city. They propose different approaches to analyze videos of pedestrians and cars, under differing conditions and then augment Aerial Earth Maps (AEMs) with live and dynamic information. They also analyze natural phenomenon (clouds) and project information from these to the AEMs to add the visual reality.