"Layar Reality Browser adds 3D to its Platform {Oct 6 09}
Layar announced the addition of 3D capabilities to its augmented reality browser platform. With 3D, developers can tag real-life objects with 3D text, place 3D objects in real-world space, and create multi-sensory experiences. The addition of 3D enables Layar developers to create more realistic and immersive augmented reality experiences for mobile devices.
More information at www.layar.com/3D
Layar is GLOBAL. With lots of content layers for everyone. All the news is on the blog and in thepress section.":
Anyway Stop the Press, contemplate some emergent VET job opportunities and cop an optic on this Aussie start up BuildAR.
"Click here for the full blog transcript of the excerpt provided below.
This work riffs around the early mashup from Paul Hagon where he combined the historic photos with Google’s Street View; and the ABC’s Sydney Sidetracks project.
But then makes it mobile – replacing the Street View with the actual view through the camera of your mobile phone.
I asked Rob a few questions -
F&N – What is this Augmented Reality thing you’ve built? What does it do?
The first service is BuildAR and it is a service built upon the Mobile Reality Browser called Layar.
Layar uses the GPS on your mobile to work out where in the world you are, then it uses the digital compass to work out which direction you’re facing (e.g. your orientation). From this it can build a model of the objects and places around you. Then as you hold up your mobile and pan around, it can overlay information on the live video from your camera that you see to highlight where these objects and places are.
BuildAR let’s you quickly and easily add, search and manage your own collection of Points of Interest (POIs) to create your own Augmented Reality layer. You can do this via a standard PC web browser, or you can do it via your mobile phone. You can create a free personal account and get started straight away creating your own private POIs or you can make public POIs that other people can view too. All it takes is a few clicks and they are shared or published in real-time.
You can also use the service to create fully branded and customised layers."
Follow the links for more info, very interesting. Coupled? entangled? with the research scurrying apace at Microsoft's PhotoSynth labs, Washington Universities CrowdFlow [similar to an app from Georgia university which uses live cctv data to populate virtual landscapes with real-time demographics {and google algorithms to auto blur faces and license plates }] and Sameer Agarwal's 'Building Rome in a day' project [machine driven suction of pics from public sites to auto compose 3D VR scapes], to name but a few, it is just getting a whole lot easier to envisage GeoLocative career options for our erstwhile student population.
Consider how many times, from what angles and from what altitudes our very own iconic Ayers Rock has been photographed... In may ways it will be easier to attain VR/AR 'models' from the timeless terrain of our sunburnt centre. The unsealed roads are about the only things that traverse the terrain on a decade by decade time line as floods, termite mounds etc urge road deviations.
The 'granularity' [the volume and density of media available for a given coordinate] of most of the locations along the Red Centre Way will be much less than say the roof of the Cistine Chapel, and it will be a while before google street view arrives, but the research efforts and innitiatives above are talking about building Rome and Dubrovnic models from 50,000 pics, in a day. I'd say right now there's going to be a heluva lot of pics from the Red Centre online.
And this brings us back to memestreme; its great having 3D models of the outback, now the scene without a meme is becoming set: all we need to do now is lay stories and ideas onto this magnificent backdrop. Bring it on.
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F&N – What is this Augmented Reality thing you’ve built? What does it do?
The first service is BuildAR and it is a service built upon the Mobile Reality Browser called Layar.
Layar uses the GPS on your mobile to work out where in the world you are, then it uses the digital compass to work out which direction you’re facing (e.g. your orientation). From this it can build a model of the objects and places around you. Then as you hold up your mobile and pan around, it can overlay information on the live video from your camera that you see to highlight where these objects and places are.
BuildAR let’s you quickly and easily add, search and manage your own collection of Points of Interest (POIs) to create your own Augmented Reality layer. You can do this via a standard PC web browser, or you can do it via your mobile phone. You can create a free personal account and get started straight away creating your own private POIs or you can make public POIs that other people can view too. All it takes is a few clicks and they are shared or published in real-time.
You can also use the service to create fully branded and customised layers."
Follow the links for more info, very interesting. Coupled? entangled? with the research scurrying apace at Microsoft's PhotoSynth labs, Washington Universities CrowdFlow [similar to an app from Georgia university which uses live cctv data to populate virtual landscapes with real-time demographics {and google algorithms to auto blur faces and license plates }] and Sameer Agarwal's 'Building Rome in a day' project [machine driven suction of pics from public sites to auto compose 3D VR scapes], to name but a few, it is just getting a whole lot easier to envisage GeoLocative career options for our erstwhile student population.
Consider how many times, from what angles and from what altitudes our very own iconic Ayers Rock has been photographed... In may ways it will be easier to attain VR/AR 'models' from the timeless terrain of our sunburnt centre. The unsealed roads are about the only things that traverse the terrain on a decade by decade time line as floods, termite mounds etc urge road deviations.
The 'granularity' [the volume and density of media available for a given coordinate] of most of the locations along the Red Centre Way will be much less than say the roof of the Cistine Chapel, and it will be a while before google street view arrives, but the research efforts and innitiatives above are talking about building Rome and Dubrovnic models from 50,000 pics, in a day. I'd say right now there's going to be a heluva lot of pics from the Red Centre online.
And this brings us back to memestreme; its great having 3D models of the outback, now the scene without a meme is becoming set: all we need to do now is lay stories and ideas onto this magnificent backdrop. Bring it on.
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Click here for the fascinating "ABC Innovation's Sidetracks" info page & you'll be able to read about;
ABC Innovation has launched their Sydney Sidetracks project.
This is a lovely experiment in developing a mobile heritage application which takes some of the archives of ABC TV and Radio and combines them with static imagery and research from the cultural heritage partners – Powerhouse Museum, State Library of NSW, National Film & Sound Archives, Museum of Contemporary Art, the City of Sydney Archives, and the Dictionary of Sydney.
ABC have sensibly hedged their bets so the diverse content is available as an interactive website with a simple map interface, and as a multi-platform mobile Java application.
Whilst the mobile application is not yet location-aware, it does provide a simulation of the potential experience that awaits in a future version. The phone version can be ‘sideloaded‘ to a huge range of different devices. Being out and about with the content changes your experience of it greatly but suffice to say, mobile is still in a very immature phase – with significant usability issues to be overcome. Partially to get around these, a whole lot of the ABC Archives content can be downloaded, separately, to your phone to be accessed as podcasts.
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