| 04 December 2009
So here at the office Matt Brechbuhler and I began experimenting with augmented reality about a month ago. We posted our original experiment which was the iphone test we conducted to show how the AR system don't rely on any proprietary code embedded into the print document, it is just simple image recognition at the simplest level. This is a continuation on our experiments exploring what we are capable of accomplishing with augmented reality and how easy it is to accomplish. In this experiment here, we installed a plugin for Google SketchUp called AR-Media by software developer Inglobe. At first we had a hard time getting the system to detect our generic HD webcam, but after some time the problem seemed to have solved itself. Using SketchUp we imported some 3DS Max files to test out and as you will see from the video, it renders the object quite quickly. This is just part 1 of our experiments and we will be exploring it more in the next few weeks.
