There’s ‘normal’ reality – the physical world around us. There’s ‘virtual’ reality – a digitally created world. And then there’s ‘augmented’ reality – a field of computer research that investigates the combination of real-world and computer-generated data. Augmented Reality blends computer graphics elements into real imagery in real time.
In this demonstration, the first iteration that Syyn Labs created, you can simply download and print the black square in this pdf document (known as a ‘fiducial’). Then watch what happens when you hold the black square up towards your webcam!
Papervision 3D and the FLARToolkit were the open-source technologies that were employed to make this possible.
