How’s this for a cool Friday mini-project…
Having just completed a massive project (which you’ll be reading about here soon), Anthony from our interactive team decided to have a play with the recently released FLARToolKit which uses the Flash player in your browser, your web cam and a specially crafted image to overlay 3d objects onto a real-world scene. The results of this have to be seen to be believed.
To test it out, just follow these instructions:
- Download & print this image
- Connect & turn on your web cam
- Visit this page and allow access to your web cam when prompted
- Hold your print-out in front of your web cam so that the four outer corners of the dark square are visible to the camera and the image isn’t obstructed.
- Be amazed by the awesome, spinning Gruden logo!
For those of you who don’t have a web cam here is a demo:
The possibilities of this technology are just beginning to be realised – however there are a couple of cool examples out there and the ideas were flying rapidly around our office tonight so watch this space!
