Archive for April, 2009

deutsche gamestage 2009

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

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.

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image credits: wikimedia

slides pdf (1.5 mb)

allard pierson museum in amsterdam

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

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

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i did not even have time for a fast forward sightseeing in amsterdam..

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calculate fov from camera intrinsic

Friday, April 10th, 2009

FoVx=2*atan(0.5/fxNorm)
FoVy=2*atan(0.5/fyNorm)

re:publica 2009 – jimbo wales & cory doctorow

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

jimbo jones from wikipedia..

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and cory doctorow wearing his cowboy jacket..

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re:publica 2009 – laurence lessig

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

i am at re:publica 09 in berlin. finally i saw laurence lessig live. his presentation style is brilliant. so is his message.

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spreadshirt are printing t-shirts with personalized re: remixes in the lobby..

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