Comments on: Has AR taken off? Is it finally here? http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/2009/09/23/has-ar-taken-off/ Thoughts on AR, technology and anything else I feel compelled to talk about Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:41:26 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: blair http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/2009/09/23/has-ar-taken-off/comment-page-1/#comment-288 blair Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:58:35 +0000 http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/?p=104#comment-288 I just chatted briefly with Bruno yesterday at the NVidia GPU Tech conference about this very thing; both his company (Total Immersion) and Metaio (the CEO, Thomas Alt, was here speaking, too) have markerless tracking solutions in development on the iPhone, and both showed videos of it working. I asked both when it would be available; both pointed out that they have it working, using video access hacks (similar to the hacks my group and others use), but can't release it till Apple opens the API. More interesting to me, both said they didn't even know when it would be available to developers (who, like me, would want to be able to work with it in anticipation of it being available). Regardless of that fact that it's not yet available, I think it's huge news that there are now 4 different NFT demonstrations on the iphone. These two commercial ones, along with research systems shown by Georg Klein and Daniel Wagner. Very very exciting. I just chatted briefly with Bruno yesterday at the NVidia GPU Tech conference about this very thing; both his company (Total Immersion) and Metaio (the CEO, Thomas Alt, was here speaking, too) have markerless tracking solutions in development on the iPhone, and both showed videos of it working. I asked both when it would be available; both pointed out that they have it working, using video access hacks (similar to the hacks my group and others use), but can’t release it till Apple opens the API.

More interesting to me, both said they didn’t even know when it would be available to developers (who, like me, would want to be able to work with it in anticipation of it being available).

Regardless of that fact that it’s not yet available, I think it’s huge news that there are now 4 different NFT demonstrations on the iphone. These two commercial ones, along with research systems shown by Georg Klein and Daniel Wagner. Very very exciting.

]]> By: moombe http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/2009/09/23/has-ar-taken-off/comment-page-1/#comment-287 moombe Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:42:45 +0000 http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/?p=104#comment-287 What I don't get is that in the interview of Bruno Uzzan (Total Immersion), he seems to say he was confident to release soon AR apps for mobile devices that would solve the near field recognition problem. Mentionning, if I'm not mistaken, the iPhone. Knowing the current iPhone SDK does not allow to analyze a live video feed, I simply do not understand how he can claim his words... Anyway, on a jailbroken iPhone, you can do it. I've seen a few demos of AR-marker based applications which seems quite nice. So we need to have apple understand they have to open a bit more the SDK. What I don’t get is that in the interview of Bruno Uzzan (Total Immersion), he seems to say he was confident to release soon AR apps for mobile devices that would solve the near field recognition problem. Mentionning, if I’m not mistaken, the iPhone. Knowing the current iPhone SDK does not allow to analyze a live video feed, I simply do not understand how he can claim his words…
Anyway, on a jailbroken iPhone, you can do it. I’ve seen a few demos of AR-marker based applications which seems quite nice. So we need to have apple understand they have to open a bit more the SDK.

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