[Wear-Hard] On-screen Overlay to the world (through an iphone!)

[Andrew Plumb]

Check out ARToolKit:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/

Even exists/runs on iPhone:

http://www.artoolworks.com/ARToolKit_iPhone.html

Andrew.

On 11-Sep-08, at 1:58 PM, Paul R. Bernard wrote:

> "Brian Kuriyama" <yosh.five7 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> http://gizmodo.com/5048302/sekai-camera-turns-on-worlds-balloon-help
>>
>> While I don't know if this group has officially died or not,
>
> Looks it.
>
>> I'm still
>> turned on to the idea of a wearable computer
>
> Me too.  :-)
>
>> I wonder if the developers will make this
>> open source or if they'll make a windows version?
>
> Not in a million years.
>
> However Steve Mann did something like it years ago.  It's discussed in
> both his book (title began like "Cyborg: ..." I can't remember the  
> rest
> of it.) and on the documentary that the CBC made of him called
> "Cyberman".
>
> He called the concept "Mediated Reality" and he used it primarily to
> remove unwanted advertising.  I expect the above technology will be
> used primarily to ADD unwanted advertising.
>
> There's no doubt however that the power of a system used by only one
> man would be overwhelmed by the power of a system used by everyone.
>
> I don't think the problem itself is all that hard to implement the
> second time around, as he published the software and theory that does
> the tricky bit.  (Don't quote me I bet I've missed something. :-)
>
> - paul
>
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