Bamzooki – Augmented Reality TV Game Show

December 5th, 2009
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The BBC’s Virtual Studiotechnology was used to enable realtime composition of the 3D rendered graphics with live camera feeds. Each studio camera has a dedicated render PC to render the virtual scene from that camera’s perspective. To know what a studio camera’s perspective is, each camera is fitted with a second ‘Free-D’ camera which points towards the ceiling. On the ceiling are reflective, circular bar codes. The 3-D camera data is fed to a computer system that identifies the targets on the ceiling and calculates that camera’s position and orientation, 50 times a second. Series 4 adopted vinten tracking peds instead of FREE-D as an alternative approach.

ActionScript for Mobiles – for iPhone too!

October 6th, 2009
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One step beyond to have Augmented Reality on Mobiles.

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3! These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year.

How AS3 looks on: Palm, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android OS, Nokia Symbian OS, BlackBerry, TVs…

At MAX 2009, Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, demos Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices, smartphones and netbooks.