2024

Also see epredator's post: "Blink and you miss the future of sports broadcasting." - http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog... - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

a little hint at the future of sports broadcasting. This example may have come from the F1 company feed, or been part of the upgrade in racing brought by the Abu Dhabi circuit but it was the sort of thing we need to see more of. The live video (replay) was blended into a rendered 3d model so that camera angles and analysis could be made after the event - Opensource Obscure

http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202... - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

OMG - cristian contini

design fiction - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

"Obscura Digital's newest, longest multitouch wall, revealed this weekend at the Hard Rock in Vegas, uses three projectors to handle 100 hi-res images and videos simultaneously in realtime." - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

video depicts an advertising sponsored video that makes use of location aware services on the mobile device - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

"The PicoP Display Engine is an ultra miniature projection module capable of producing full color, high-resolution images but small enough and low power enough to be embedded directly into mobile devices such as cell phones, portable media players, digital cameras, portable computers and more." - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

1. Touchable Holography - 2. Augmented Reality for Ordinary Toys - 3. Hyper-Realistic Virtual Reality - 4. 3D Teleconferencing - 5. Scratchable Input - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

If, as indicated by Lee's blog entry, Project Natal is, among other things, essentially a cheap 3D scanner generating... ... a Hi-Def point cloud, then it's easy to assume the device will be hacked & we'll begin seeing 3D files amass on P2P. Opportunistic types will take those files and, because they're not protected by copyright, will lightly mod, skin & sell. This opens up a can of worms for product manufacturers. Recall Taser's recent aborted lawsuit against Linden Lab. Like musicians, some will instead opt to put mesh files up for d/l. They're making their money via tangible product. For them, those files are raw advertising; at worst background for some bad amateur pron machinima - Opensource Obscure

[EN] This is a copy'n'paste of a few Twitter messages by @rebang - I put them here because Twitter search sucks and I wanted to be able to find these thoughts, that I find very interesting. - Opensource Obscure

This is the article by Johnny Chung Lee mentioned above: http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2009... - Opensource Obscure

The world will become our display. As a stopgap we are busily turning our phones into the lens through which we view floating tweets and wikipedia entries. However designers like Timo Arnall are starting to explore how we will interact with an augmented world when we are able to move past the iPhone crutch. The 30-second video above shows a woman interacting with a map on the ground. She navigates and zooms the plaza-sized subway map with simple hand gestures. - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

* 60" Projected Image 4:3 (in dimly lit room) * 1GB onboard memory + microSD reader * RGB, iPod, PSP, PDA, DVD input * MP4, MP3, AVI, JPG, WMV decoder * VGA (640x480) resolution 12 Lumen LED Light Source - Opensource Obscure

Solo perche' cita l'anno 2024..per il resto oltre che offtopic rispetto a '2024' non penso che le cose andranno a finire cosi'. Lo spero. - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

"Thomas Funkhouser, Princeton University Professor Funkhouser aims to develop methods for automatic construction of semantically-labeled, detailed, and photorealistic 3D models of cities from Street View data. The main efforts will be towards the segmentation and recognition of small objects (e.g. mailboxes, fire hydrants, parking meters, etc.) in Lidar data based on shape classification and contextual reasoning. A second objective will be to construct seamless, photorealistic 3D models of complete cities by extracting and fitting parts from repositories of polygonal models." - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

"Cross Reality". This is when sensor/actuator networks meet online virtual worlds. Cross Reality is about connecting "location-specific 3D animated constructs" in virtual worlds to in-building sensor installations. - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

Articolo off-topic per una giusta causa - Opensource Obscure

"Taking the time to explore SL6B now is not so full and there are only some days more of it. Is surprising what you can find around, or how some stuff can change so much depending the angle of the camera..." - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

Interview with Andy Farnell and Robert Thomas, about the production of the Kids on DSP reactive music album, soon to be released on RjDj on the iPhone and iPod Touch. - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

"La reale efficacia dei mondi virtuali intesi come stage virtuale permanente sta nella loro ’socialita’ cosi come nella loro ‘immersività’" - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

The term "10-foot" refers to the approximate distance of the viewer from a television set, flat-panel screen or other large display. More specifically, this concept is about the GUI (general user interface) -- large menus, buttons, electronic program guides -- that allows users to navigate channels and perform other functions using a handheld remote or similar device. - Opensource Obscure

"Some very early results with Augmented Reality (AR) on an iPhone 3G. This video shows an adaptation of the Parallel Tracking and Mapping system to an iPhone. All processing is done live on the phone. http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk" - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

"it still needs a lot of work - the camera's narrow field-of-view is problematic - but they can already make and track small maps" - Parallel Tracking and Mapping on the iPhone: Augmented Reality App Development - http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2009... - Opensource Obscure

"Passerbys become a part of the film Coraline leaving them with a lasting impact." - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet

Commenti interessanti su questa e altre applicazioni sperimentali in ambito commerciale dell'Augmented Reality: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2009... - Opensource Obscure

"magari si potrebbe fare apparire un ologramma quando l'utente si avvicina.. basterebbe un sensore di prossimita' che fa passare un riquadro dalla trasparenza piena all'opacita'.. un pannello con le scritte simile a questo" (Paol Oh) - Opensource Obscure from Bookmarklet