Augmented Reality

First, watch this:

Next, head on over here:

http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

At first I thought it was some viral marketing thing, but it appears that this really does work - I'm going to try it at home as I don't have a webcam here at work.

prefer the cosby show :P

quite good keanu reeves shit tho :D

Better than urban camo, you're heating up.

holly shit but i dont have a webcam

thats not real. thats like the kind of stuff that happens in my dreams

(but in the world as opposed to on a laptop screen)

a lot of it has to do with feldenchrist.

  277: 930-933 said:

holly shit but i dont have a webcam

I've got a webcam and no printer, wanna make out?

  Iain C said:

  277: 930-933 said:

holly shit but i dont have a webcam

 

I've got a webcam and no printer, wanna make out?

I've got a weber but no printcam!

this is the sort of shit my dad works on

it works if you take a picture of the shape with your phone

  Iain C said:

  277: 930-933 said:

holly shit but i dont have a webcam

 

I've got a webcam and no printer, wanna make out?

 

*Softly strokes Iain's hair*

*Takes breathmint*

That's all it does?

Cool. How can we use it to do something useful?

Yeah, waste of time and ink for novelty that will wear off in minutes. I've had more fun using the A-B function on my DVD player.

  OneToThirtySix said:

Yeah, waste of time and ink for novelty that will wear off in minutes. I've had more fun using the A-B function on my DVD player.

Tell me more about this "A-B" function...

  assegai said:

Tell me more about this "A-B" function...

Nobody else has this?  It's the best thing ever!  It turns a portion of a DVD into a repeating loop.  Hearing David Duchovny say "Do you think I'm spooky?" thirty times in a row is hysterical fun. Press once to set "A", press again to set "B", and the DVD plays from "A-B". Get it?

might be jazz but another similar thing + real-time physics

  Braintree said:

Cool. How can we use it to do something useful?

i agree, online teaching? guides for the internet? take apart a digital version of something, expanding small parts in size? lectures?

  OneToThirtySix said:

Yeah, waste of time and ink for novelty that will wear off in minutes. I've had more fun using the A-B function on my DVD player.

Till we all have this shit wet wired, and wear 'augmented' clothing.

That second one looks like image metrics.

  funkaholic said:

  Braintree said:

Cool. How can we use it to do something useful?

 

i agree, online teaching? guides for the internet? take apart a digital version of something, expanding small parts in size? lectures?

That would actually be really useful for online classes teaching mechanics or something. If you could have all your students print off sheets that would break apart an engine block or something when you put it on the webcam.

thats all well and good but can i print out a full copy of Half-Life?

  Braintree said:

  funkaholic said:

  Braintree said:

Cool. How can we use it to do something useful?

 

i agree, online teaching? guides for the internet? take apart a digital version of something, expanding small parts in size? lectures?

 

That would actually be really useful for online classes teaching mechanics or something. If you could have all your students print off sheets that would break apart an engine block or something when you put it on the webcam.

that would be great, especially if you need to highlight parts or make them bigger, but this would only really useful once the standard for webcam video quality to be quite high, but then you could also say that a well designed online interactive piece which multiple people could use at the same time with a teacher could have the same effect and that the augmented reality is just a novelty or is better for exhibitions or museums as kids would love it? or that really it is just pointless and the real problem is raising the standard of design for education? WHO KNOWS

you could also do something with some sort of multiplayer game maybe?

i think maybe its perfect for museums

this is fucking baller! i've learned a bit about papervision and motion tracking movie clips to pre-recorded, metadata-filled video through actionscript, but this shit wins.

MY FAITH IS RESTORED IN JOYREX

  funkaholic said:

  Braintree said:

  funkaholic said:

  Braintree said:

Cool. How can we use it to do something useful?

 

i agree, online teaching? guides for the internet? take apart a digital version of something, expanding small parts in size? lectures?

 

That would actually be really useful for online classes teaching mechanics or something. If you could have all your students print off sheets that would break apart an engine block or something when you put it on the webcam.

 

that would be great, especially if you need to highlight parts or make them bigger, but this would only really useful once the standard for webcam video quality to be quite high, but then you could also say that a well designed online interactive piece which multiple people could use at the same time with a teacher could have the same effect and that the augmented reality is just a novelty or is better for exhibitions or museums as kids would love it? or that really it is just pointless and the real problem is raising the standard of design for education? WHO KNOWS

 

you could also do something with some sort of multiplayer game maybe?

 

i think maybe its perfect for museums

Maybe it's one step closer to having holograms