[Noisebridge-discuss] augmented reality toolkit: ARToolKit

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 23:01:51 UTC 2008


On Jan 29, 2008 2:39 PM, Marc Powell <marc at foodhacking.com> wrote:
> http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/
>
> ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR)
> applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual
> imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a
> three-dimensional virtual character appears standing on a real card. It
> can be seen by the user in the head set display they are wearing. When the
> user moves the card, the virtual character moves with it and appears
> attached to the real object.
>
> http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/projects/
>
> anyone got any hardware to play with??? would be dope to use gps/wifi
> geocoding to annotate the entire city physically.. specially in
> conjunction with a skillshare workshop for a hacker conference-- people
> take a week to annotate the city, then reportback to the main group!
>
> anyone fucked with this stuff before??

It seems similar to what this PhD student was working on using the Wii...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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