Augmented Reality

Hello there!


I just had to blog this.
It's rather exciting for me and I wanted to share it with the world :)

Since dreaming up an idea for a Delta Airlines brief I have been thinking of ways to bring it to life. My idea was to make the Statue of Liberty appear in Manchester city centre in all its green glory using Augmented Reality as the media. Whilst at university I did manage to create a 'version' of this and it was all very exciting!
My first version worked by using my computers webcam to display a model of the Statue of Liberty which was pretty cool but was sadly limited to my Mac and that wasn't a true reflection of the idea.

Since then I've been hell-bent on trying to make the AR portable (like on an iPhone etc) so it's closer to the real idea and FINALLY I managed it.

Below is a screenshot from my iPod touch showing that at long last I can make the Statue of Liberty appear wherever I want! Not only that but I can play with the model - make it bigger and smaller or rotate it or zoom in on the details and I'm extremely happy with the result! It took a lot of hours but I did it and just had to share it with you! (The AR code in the picture is on my computer screen but I can print it off and place anywhere.)

I'd love to hear your feedback on this so please don't hesitate to comment on this post or send me a quick email @ robynkendal@hotmail.co.uk.

Well, I'm off to play with it some more (it's my new toy!) and see what other models I can make appear!
Thanks for viewing and I'll post again soon, cya!

Argh-tissue!

Good evening everyone :)

Hope you've all had a great weekend; mine was pretty good though the next will be even better as it will be my 21st birthday :D

Anyway, the first vid for today's post is one that's been trending quite a lot this past week and with good reason and it's terribly cute:

Haha aww, it's just so adorable and deserves to be trending :) look at that cute little face.

This next vid is one that caught my eye today. Lots of people at the moment are going crazy over the Nintendo 3DS and with good reason as it's the first 3D console and it's a portable one at that. In the box you get 6 Augmented Reality cards which is cool but also expected as it is a 3D hand-held system. But this video takes things a little bit further ...

Amazing isn't it? I wonder if they could get it any bigger :P I guess that's their next challenge but it's certainly a step forward in gaming huh?

That last video was all the way from Japan which, as we're all aware, is still suffering from the effects of that awful earthquake and all the nuclear happenings too. Thankfully, something quite amusing came of it all in the form of this next video created to show children about the nuclear situation.

:D brilliant isn't it? But it gets the point across too which is the main thing :) it always helps to add a bit of humor to it too!

Well, that's all from me this time but I'm sure I'll be back with more updates and things soon. Have a good week everyone, post again soon!
Cya!