We are autobots.......

Really like this AR piece 'We Are Autobots' set up for the new Transformers film! Aiming to include this kind of face tracking in my installation, alongside the element of pervasive gaming. Want to keep the idea small but have some impact, and be intuitive for the users.

Markers

This is becoming heavy stuff, with all the augmented reality software - Artag, Artoolkit, FlarToolkit, Papervision etc, and then creating markers etc. Thought about making a puzzle of some sort which involves folded markers which when opened up create an optical illusion or something similar, I'm also loking at fake model photography, which fascinates me as another spin off from the whole visual perception project.

Now, this could be more like it.......

Discovered this fantastic game by Julian Oliver and thought, that using augmented reality + webcam + wireless internet = William Gibson’s book, Spook Country! Creating 3D virtual sculptures that can only be seen while wearing goggles and standing in just the right place, or in my projects case, labryinths and games that can only be interacted with when viewing the markers.

To be able to somehow include a second person could be pretty impressive however, and have them interact and also possibly using more visual cognition to solve the puzzles would fit in with my entire research and development of ideas so far. More experimentation is needed!........

Augmented reality part 3

Brilliant - and something I want to explore more. Enjoying exploring various virtual and real visual perceptions.

Augmented reality part 2

I am starting to do some experimentation with augmented reality and trying out visual illusions. Would be great to get some test runs done in time for my presentation in a week or so. Some of them have shown great reults and as I mentioned earlier, I'd like to have some kind of interactivity as per the test run below done in flash using web cam motion detection (very similar to the nintendo Wii idea) to possibly create an augmented reality interaction. Maybe the imagery could be used to create an illusion of some kind, or possibly see if people are initially aware of their visual environment by including something unexpected. It feels like I am getting somewhere now with my development.....