FYI, Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Breakdown: Lego's "Digital Box", an Augmented Reality Kiosk http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/11/16/video-augmented-reality-at-lego-store-digital-box/
Metaio in Munich, Germany, developed the Digital Box. They have their own SDK called The Unifeye http://www.metaio.com/products/ This type of Alternate Reality is called Augmented Virtuality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality Blair MacIntyre, Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, is doing this type of work, but mostly on handhelds (i.e., Zune). Horst Bischof, Professor at Graz University of Technology, is doing this type of real-time computer vision ... and then some! They were both keynote speakers at last falls nVidia GPU Conference. Important Trends in Visual Computing (General Session) https://nvidiagtc.wingateweb.com/scheduler/schedule/eventDayView.jsp Check out the video for a kewl real-time real world tire and a virtual rim with shading based on a real-time real world light source!!!! Blair was also involved in www.ismar09.org SmartScene - one of the 2 engineers (way early on) ended up going to work for Lego in Denmark. He did VR research work for them at their Corporate Headquarters. I don't know if that effort turned into a product or not. He hasn't been with them for some time now. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tomlinson, Gordon Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:36 AM To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: Re: [osg-users] Lego Augmented Reality As to who, I would say this would be their internal Software/R&D group, I was interested in joining that group a few years ago especially when I was still involved with Mulitgen and Smartscene, they had a really cool virtual Lego land demo in Smartscene. SmartScene was a great concept which just arrived way to early for the technology especially at the consumer level Gordon Tomlinson Product Manager 3d Technology & Future Products Overwatch(r) An Operating Unit of Textron Systems -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris 'Xenon' Hanson Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:22 AM To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: Re: [osg-users] Lego Augmented Reality On 2/15/2010 9:08 AM, Jason Daly wrote: > Very cool. I'm wondering how they're doing the tracking (I don't see > any fiducials or anything). I wondered that too. They are obviously recognizing the boxcover image somehow too, so they must be running against a database of potential boxcover images and then using THAT at the fiducial rectangle. Rather nice work. Gonna have to go visit my local Lego store and see if THEY have it. > --"J" -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.or g _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
