augmented reality

Allen Wirfs-Brock is a Research Fellow at Mozilla working on the next version of JavaScript (EcmaScript, to be precise), codenamed "Harmony." Allen is the chief editor of the EcmaScript specification. He's also legendary for his work on SmallTalk. It's always fun to chat with Allen. His…

Ashish Jaiman talks with Intertouch Media founder and lead developer and discusses how they are leveraging Windows 7, WPF and Silverlight. Inter touch media creates multi-touch immersive media experiences. They create widgets in WPF for advertisement and other media scenarios. Intertouch Media…

This article provides step-by-step instructions about how to create a simple, yet interesting, augmented reality game called “domino knock-down game” using an open source framework called Goblin XNA. Introduction This is an advanced tutorial, and as such we expect that you are already familiar…

The ARToolkit, a library of tools for creating augmented reality applications, has just been ported to Silverlight. The SLARToolkit, as it’s called, is hosted over on Codeplex where it and its source code are available for download. Available features in the SLARToolkit include direct Support for…

I just randomly came across this video on YouTube which I thought was pretty impressive. A company called YDreams has created a small hack to navigate Microsoft Photosynths using gestures. This is done using their device the YDreams SensorBar, which lets you use hand gestures to control your…

SC08: HLRS researchers discuss and demo cool visualization, virtual and augmented reality environments.

SC08: HLRS researchers discuss and demo cool visualization, virtual and augmented reality environments.

This demo will explain the development of a new kind of image feature that can be used within a variety of applications, ranging from image stitching to augmented reality. The features are already finding their way into Microsoft products and are being considered for many new applications. The demo…