September 28, 2004
'the invisible train'
from here:
"The Invisible Train is a mobile, collaborative multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) game, in which players control virtual trains on a real wooden miniature railroad track. These virtual trains are only visible to players through their PDA's video see-through display as they don't exist in the physical world. This type of user interface is commonly called the "magic lens metaphor"."
through waxy
personally, almost too close to chojo to make me unnervous.
October 01, 2003
3d Motion Tracking here at USC
This is probably old news to some, but I just learned (thanks to Susana) that Isaac Cohen at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Integrated Media Systems Center, is an Assistant Proffesor heading up research in the area of attachment free 3d human tracking.
Anyone know more about this research team?
Anyone know what sort of relationship or lack there of we have with IMSC?
September 28, 2003
"Look Mom, Nothing To WEAR!"
Kong Man Cheung (aka German Cheung) - PhD student in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, (and others), created a Real-Time 3d Body Tracking solution requiring no body attachments, and published a paper to IEEE in June of 2000. Based on the sillouettes of a human body (or anything else) captured from multiple camera angles, the system constructs a 3d Voxel Model of the person and runs the data through other algorithms to achieve real-time tracking. (If anyone else has seen something similar, please forward it on to me or post it. Apologies if this is old news to some.)
