Johannes and his team are working hard on making X3DOM reality. X3DOM is a solution for a seamless and HTML5 conform integration of 3D content in web pages. Based on WebGL and Javascript it does not need a plug-in anymore. Sounds like the best chance of a 3D internet for years.
Let’s hope Apple enables WebGL on the iPhone soon in order to render augmented reality apps. TwittARound would be happy.
iTACITUS is finished. After 32 month the EU funded project came to an end. The final review took place at Reggia Venaria Reale in Italy.
Fraunhofer IGD presented the final version of our augmented reality application on UMPCs (live markerless tracking) and iPhone (Snapshot AR). The application shows context aware overlays of the architecture and interior of the palace. We only used available historic media linke drawings and paintings. This enables affordable augented reality for cultural heritage compared to expensive 3D reconstructions. For a seamless integration of the overlays we invented Reality Filtering (VAST 2008) which renders the environment in the style of the overlay (black and white drawing, painting).
My paper “Cultural Heritage Layers” about iTACITUS was accepted at VSMM 2009 in Vienna.
berlin again! michael liebe asked me to give a talk at science forum of deutsche gamestage in berlin. it was an introduction about augmented reality starting with a description of how “assassin’s creed” uses augmented reality features, followed by a technical demystification.
image credits: wikimedia
last week i finished a project for the “a future for the past” exhibition at allard pierson museum in amsterdam. we set up two augmented reality cultural heritage applications about satricum and forum romanum. two large photographs in the exhibition are superimposed with 3d reconstructions and context sensitive information. presented on a new version of the movablescreen and umpcs.
project documentation at IGD
i did not even have time for a fast forward sightseeing in amsterdam..
beta 6 is out with a lot of important features:
- the javascript functions have been optimized for live scene manipulation
- 53 tutorials including augmented reality, marker tracking, poster tracking, …
- InstantIO plugin API
