While AR has really taken off in the news and media over the past year, there are hundreds of examples that have been missed, looked over, or forgotten either in the rush of the recent AR ‘browser wars’ and novelty ads … or simply were released before augmented reality caught everyone’s attention. Every week I’ll attempt to post a few videos and links to examples of augmented reality, demos, and toolkits to fill the gaps for those newly interested in augmented reality technology or with less time to peruse the internet for AR goodies.
November 12th, 2009
Cooking with AR: food-based markers… again!
This was never published on ar.m-ato.me (as it happened before this blog started), but many of you will probably be familiar with Mike Clare’s AR cookies. Turns out this was not the only example of food-based fiducial marker floating around. Enter Cheese Toast AR. niconicodouga user フリスクP combines a slice of white bread, mayonnaise, pepper, a slice of cheese, nori, some clever scissor work and a toaster to render a 3D animated model of Hatsune Miku.
Video embedded after the break.
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November 12th, 2009
Sekai Camera working again; SR+AR+TenkiAPI = Shabette Otenki Kensaku
Last night SekaiCamera went down for maintenance, and has since returned and fixed its overseas stuck-on-download problem! Many thanks to the SekaiCamera staff for resolving this issue.
Doing my regular rounds of new AR demos and articles, I came across a fun little demo posted on もじもじTV [mojimojiTV], called Shabette Otenki Kensaku [しゃべってお天気検索]. It combines speech recognition (SR), augmented reality (AR), and the TenkiAPI (an API for weather information). Users can hold the marker before the camera, wait for the count-down, and then say a city-name. The application then uses the TenkiAPI to call current weather for the city-name used, and outputs the information using AR.
By no means meant to be an application used everyday, it’s an interesting little concept piece and definitely has me thinking about other ways we can start combing SR an AR together.