Sunday 10 February 2008

Augmented Reality on a mobile phone



This video demonstrates software running on a mobile phone to generate a virtual image in the position and rotation of the marker. An application for this software could be to track famous landmarks (check out the landmark recognition aspect of the software called Photosynth in one of my earlier posts), and information about the landmark could be viewed on the mobile phone's screen.

Logitech Orbit Cam

This looks like quite a fun toy to use for video messaging, I'm very impressed by the facial features recognition and it's ability to track the orientation of a person's face: