Another nice video about the future of Augmented Reality (AR). We're talking about AR a lot lately, thanks to the fact that we are enjoying real applications (iPhone and Android phones, e.g.)
I wonder when we will be able to have those glasses.
(Thanks to Jordi Tormo for the link)
From the very beginning, processing was created as a development platform with one objective in mind: generative/procedural art. And this objective is a reality not only because of the tools this language offers, but because some additional libraries some developers are providing to this open community.
People from toxiclibs and their incredible set of libraries for processing is an example.
In the following video you can see a showreel of some of the works created using processing and toxiclibs libraries:
toxiclibs showreel from postspectacular on Vimeo.
TDC 2009 (Thinking Digital Conference) took place last May:
Thinking Digital is an annual conference where the world's greatest thinkers and innovators gather to inspire, to entertain, and to discuss the latest ideas and technologies.
Thinking Digital 2009 Talks: Johnny Chung Lee - Research into Interface Technology from Herb Kim on Vimeo.
With the title Mobile phones get cyborg vision, BBC describes the present and future of some current Augmented Reality applications. It is worth seeing it.
Looking for new material for my students I have found some interesting videos about the history of CGI (Computer Generated Images).
This first one summarizes the use of CGI in the film industry:
The second and third, two parts of the same, describe the evolution of CGI from its beginning to nowadays:
Click here for the second part of the documentary.
Although we have been able to see a lot of Augmented Reality (AR) applications recently, some even online (based on Flash, for example), it is not common to see some real useful examples. I mean, examples where the use of the AR is really interesting and contributes to the final product.
A good example of this is the U.S. Postal Priority Mail with its Virtual Box application. Visit their website, and see the demo video to get the final idea.
"Which box fits your shipment?" By using AR, the user can print a pattern, and can visually explore if the different box sizes are or not appropriate for the object the user want to send. The boxes are visualized with transparency, so they can visually compare the size of the object to send vs. the box. Great and useful.
Another video of a real demo of this new project from Microsoft called Natal project.
This time, it's not an advert but a real and live demo.
It's really impressive what Microsoft is preparing under the codename 'Project Natal'.
Is this the Wii killer ? I don't know but if it works as in the demo, we are going to go beyond the actual standards ...
I'm still attending to Eurographics 2009 at Munich. Eurographics is the most important conference on Computer Graphics in Europe, and this year, in the education programme, I was showing to the audience the benefits of using processing in an introductory computer graphics course.
The material I use in this course is here.
The slides I showed at the conference here.
There's no doubt that the advantages of processing in a lot of different areas are awesome, but it is especially worth when we talk about teaching computer graphics. I'm still working in processing and learning as much as I can.
If there's something really difficult is to predict the future. Microsoft has tried to do it in this video.
What it seems true is that pervasive computing and advanced GUI are going to be an essential key.
Enjoy the video ... what's your opinion ?
