Papervision – Augmented Reality (extended) from Boffswana on Vimeo.
A digital design shop in Australia, Boffswana, shows off a neat parlor trick in the video above. It places a 3D Flash character made with Papervision into a regular Webcam video using nothing more than a paper printout. (Update: Oh, and you can print it out yourself and add the character to your own video).
Eat your heart out, George Lucas.
(Hat tip to Cory O’Brien).
Pretty cool!
soon it’ll be on android phones and will allow to add augmented reality to your shopping experience in stores.
*NOM,NOM,NOM*
This could bring stop motion animation to the masses.
You sort of missed the point of this link. The cool part is that you can print out the symbol and use your own webcam to make this creature appear on your desk as well.
http://www.didn...eature-to-life/
There was an update to boffswana’s web page with a link to the source code which you can compile with the PaperVision or FLARToolkit library.
Then you can take any MD2 model file and create your own character(s) and off you go with your animation studio. Though you would need to move the piece of paper by taping a paperclip to it and use a magnet under the table or something.
Though I agree with you, that it is more of a hat-trick than anything else perhaps.
Yes, thank you. Forgot to mention that. You can print out the symbol and include the character in your own video.
The Japanese version is even better:
http://www.yout...h?v=yCCx7zANsGE
we saw a demo of something much more photorealistic in demo couple of years ago (2007 i think!) – the showcasing company had a demo of a CG character popping out of the demoer’s tshirt – the tech though was that a high def camera was used.
the coolness in this demo was bringing computer vision stuff to a normal user’s webcam & flash.
I just saw a presentation the other day by Christian Sandor from the University of Southern Australia. He demoed some cutting edge Augmented Reality stuff, much better than this. With recent advances you can insert characters such as the above in any video stream, but without the need for any markers (e.g. cardboard cutouts). The little dudes just walk around on your desk. This is a huge advancement, and really really cool.
(note: I don’t think he developed the algorithms he demoed. that credit goes somewhere else)
It’s cool. Also character is cute
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that is pretty cool,
similar “Augmented Reality” projects:
http://vj.tv/ne...saqoosha-japan/
http://vj.tv/ne...-julian-oliver/
Hehe, the Chinese version is kinda funny ;D
Can you have a picture of it on your smartphone and do it like that?
It seems like the movement or frame rate for the character is quite slow/low. Is that just the result of the computer it was rendered on, or can it not product smoother animation?
This is amazing, so cool.
A lot can be done with this. Those who AS3 with Papervision, are those who bring the Multimedia-Collaborative-Interactivity to the internet. Now you know.
There is an iphone version of this kind of program
http://www.arto...Kit_iPhone.html
almost the same technology was developed by students in our university in Turkey. The guys even won some price for innovation, dont know what happened to them.
not really something new.
we idid this 2 years ago as a student project:
http://planetd....vin/marvin.html
It’s so funny
that is pretty cool,