April 13, 2005
Magic Cubes
This was one of the more interesting projects I saw at SIGCHI this year. It's called Magic Cubes developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore and Osaka University. It's using video tracking - which as I understand it is a fairly well defined technical operation. But, the really cool part is the way its telling small stories that seem to appear from the magic cube. Each side of the magic cube is a different component of the story, represented by the illustration on that side. As you flip sides, you get a different part of the story that is played out as an animation on the computer screen. Here, just watch a short little video I shot.
Posted by jbleecker at April 13, 2005 06:31 PM | TrackBackComments
There has been an explosion of such AR (Augmented Reality) - MR (Mixed Reality) applications during the past number of years, and I am aware of many computer vision / video tracking software libraries that are available for anyone to use - let me know if anyone is interested to use such a technique for a project.
This type of tracking (using black pictograms that are identifiable with any cheap web cam, under any angle, at any orientation), allows to *augment* a video of the tangible object (a cube, a book) with additional 3D information - this compositing of real image and virtual image can be viewed on a laptop or a HMD for a more impressive effect.
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at April 17, 2005 08:03 PM
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