{"id":15749,"date":"2009-03-07T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/03\/fun-with-augmented-reality.html"},"modified":"2009-03-07T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:25:28","slug":"fun_with_augmented_reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/07\/fun_with_augmented_reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Augmented Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia describes &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augmented_reality\">augmented reality<\/a>&#8221; as &#8220;the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.&#8221;  Now it&#8217;s come to Flash, with some amazing results.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ecomagination.com\/smartgrid\/?c_id=Matter#\/augmented_reality\">GE Smart Grid<\/a> site lets you print out a sheet of paper, hold it up to your Web cam, and interact with 3D graphics.  I was all set to link to a quick demo of the technology, but it just went MIA from YouTube.  No matter: here&#8217;s a demo of an interactive print piece for Mini:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dBser6_gToA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nThanks to the open-source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libspark.org\/wiki\/saqoosha\/FLARToolKit\/en\">FLARtoolkit for Flash<\/a>, augmented reality is popping up all over, as in this augmented Happy New Year&#8217;s card:<br \/>\n<object width=\"426\" height=\"321\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2734815&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"426\" height=\"321\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s even been <a href=\"http:\/\/comunicadores.info\/2009\/03\/02\/twitter-camiseta-realidade-aumentada-augmented-reality\/\">combined with Twitter + t-shirt printing<\/a>.  For more info, check out David Pogue&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/11\/at-ted-virtual-worlds-collide-with-reality\/\">report from TED<\/a>. [Via lots and lots of people]<br \/>\n<i>Tangentially related: This funny example of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2009\/02\/real_life_multitouch.html\">real-life multitouch<\/a>&#8221; is, indeed, a sign of too much iPhone usage.  (Seeing it reminds me of Photoshop QE Pete du&#8217;Fosse realizing that he was working too much when he found himself hovering a hand over his microwave&#8217;s keypad, getting frustrated when no tool tip appeared.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia describes &#8220;augmented reality&#8221; as &#8220;the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.&#8221; Now it&#8217;s come to Flash, with some amazing results. The GE Smart Grid site lets you print out a sheet of paper, hold it up to your Web cam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}