Keeping technology alive with the spectacle of magic (and keeping magic alive with the spectacle of technology), Marco Tempest is at TEDxTokyo performing some infrared tracking and projection visuals. (via @augmented)
Magic Projection Live @ TEDxTokyo 2010 from Marco Tempest on Vimeo.
Another video released just a couple days ago using augmented reality markers as alternative interface and controller for parameters in music programs… in this case, Quartz Composer. I’m not familiar with Quartz Composer so I can’t tell you much detail apart from what the video description and in-video commentary says. Work by Rishabh Rajan.
Augmented Reality in Quartz Composer used to generate OSC messages to manipulate parameters of Buffer Override as an insert in an audio track.
Just a preview, and how you can use the ARDJ software with ableton… basically me messing around with it. Talking about the software a bit and how it works. :) Enjoy!
Get the software free at http://www.lipert.net/ardj
A lot of buzz around AR has been around its use as a means to either modify the information we see about the world around us, gaming, or ‘magic’ (as described in a previous post). Earlier this last week we saw AR not as a result, but as a means input or control in “Home automation through augmented reality” which used QR codes as markers to activate objects around the house. The end result does not involve any augmented or modified vision or perception, but rather, real life changes in physical objects and environments (on or off, dark room or bright room). This example very loosely qualifies as ‘augmented reality’ in my book, but is not undeserving of attention from the AR community as a example of computer vision with (long winded) real world application (not efficiency, but visible to us without aid of a device). ARDJ sort of follows this same track in its purpose– it provides an alternative means of control of particular parameters. The end results is again, not visual. AR or not? Meeeh—- but it is a reminder that AR doesn’t have to be related to navigation or information overlay, and can exist as a broader, more creative technology allowing for organic human gesture and manipulation to come into play.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen some AR magic or ARt, hasn’t it? Here’s some projection work by “virtual magician” Marco Tempest in Tokyo. It’s really refreshing to see some augmented reality that retracts back into the magic (magic as mystery, not performance entertainment, though it is coincidentally so) of technology.
Technical details available via Create Digital Motion.
First thing I pulled from my fishing nets this morning was a nice matome/roundup of computer vision demos on Youtube which included a demo for “BriefCam”. The narration was a bit painful to go through, but the demo itself was impressive. BriefCam indexes, summarizes, and compresses events in video logs from surveillance cameras in a way I can’t quite explain ((maybe that’s why the narration was in staccato)), and most certainly sparked my imagination in terms of the future of computer vision capabilities in augmented reality environments — particularly the possibilities of compressing perception of time.
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