If you are looking for an ARToolKit Marker Generator that works online then see:
http://flash.tarotaro.org/blog/2009/07/12/mgo2/
or you can start immediatly the ARToolKit Marker Generator Online Multi.
Bionic Eye is a new application specifically developed for the iPhone 3GS that enables you to visualize Points of Interest (POI) located in your nearby environment in the US, thanks to a unique Augmented Reality functionality using the iPhone camera.
POI databases include restaurants, WiFi hotspots, subway stations (New York Subway, Washington Metro, Chicago L Rapid Transit), etc. Over 100.000 POI are already included in this application. Elements located at a distance less than 1km (0,621miles) only will be displayed on the screen.
For further information see: BionicEye
Presselite announces new AR iPhone game:
Our new project has been revealed today, we are very proud to announce a new Augmented Reality game called Firefighter 360 for the iPhone 3GS.
We actually used our Augmented Reality engine developed for Bionic Eye application to create this little game.
In this life-saving fire-person shooter, you play as a firefighter, rather than gunning down enemies, you will have to douse virtual flames spreading very fast in your real environment. As you physically turn around 360 degrees with your iPhone, you have to methodically extinguish the flames you see, thanks to the camera. The fire itself isn’t just a static “enemy” to be dealt with. Flames will propagate and spread if you don’t put them down completely, the fire itself is capable of doing you harm if you’re not careful.
Here is a new addition to my software tool set for research. Mendeley that aims to become a useful community where you can manage, share and discover research trends in all academic disciplines.
If you deal with academic knowledge, then Mendeley will make your life easier. It’s a combination of desktop software and social network which helps you manage, share and discover both content and contacts in research. It’s easy to use, and it’s free.
This blog was a bit on summer vacation. But nevertheless the information for publication on this blog accumulated during this time. I will try to catch up with this lack and give some overview of my various research directions.
Due to the fact I started this year in summer to do some outdoor sports again, I were looking for a software to log my different excercises like Nordic Walking, hiking, Mountain Biking, Swimming etc. So an amazing variety of ways to keep track of these activities were found. It was shown that also sport and IT offer applications in the sense of Web 2.0, where open source software is available, content can be published to the Web, GPS tracks from other users can be downloaded for own use or one can start a race on the home trainer against another training partner via the internet.
For my sport log following interesting software was found, which describes itself as follows:
SportTracks. A revolution in exercise logbook software.
Look no further. You have found the best GPS-enabled exercise logbook software in the world.
Coupled with a GPS receiver SportTracks will automatically track the distance, time and pace of your workouts. You’ll be able to take a high level view and track your progress over time, or dive into the details of a specific exercise to analyze your pace, elevation, or heart-rate performance. Activities can be organized into categories, or summarized by location.
SportTracks supports many popular data import formats and allows you to easily export your exercise data for viewing in other software programs. You can even add activities manually and edit GPS tracks to correct for poor satelite reception or the dreaded mid-run dead battery, and much much more.
For further information, screenshots and downloads see:
http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/SportTracks/
Looking for markerless tracking OpenCV showed up and seems to have already some applications in the field of augmented reality at a web search. General information on OpenCV:
Introduction
This library is intended for use, incorporation and modification by researchers, commercial software developers, government and camera vendors as reflected in the license.
As per the Library Overview:
This library is mainly aimed at real time computer vision. Some example areas would be:
- - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI);
- - Object Identification, Segmentation and Recognition;
- Face Recognition;
- Gesture Recognition;
- Motion Tracking,
- Ego Motion,
- Motion Understanding;
- Structure From Motion (SFM);
- and Mobile Robotics.
Philosophy – Aid commercial uses of computer vision in human-computer interface, robotics, monitoring, biometrics and security by providing a free and open infrastructure where the distributed efforts of the vision community can be consolidated and performance optimized.
See:
http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/
Download files are available on Source Forge:
Amazing the content you also can get nowadays online. Galileo Computing also offers some software presentations and videos from tech talks on actual topics online.
Video Trailer on Software:
see under: Video Trailer.
Techtalks:
especially the tech talks are interesting to follow like:
Game Design - made in Germany
If one is looking especially for german IT literature Galileo Press offers a very interesting possibility to read some of their extensive books online or to download them locally like e.g.:
and many more.
See their WebSite:
[Augmented Reality]
Studierstube Tracker (StbTracker) is a computer vision library for detection and pose estimation of 2D barcodes. It is a successor to the well-known ARToolKitPlus library. Its concept is very similar to that of ARToolKit, ARToolKitPlus and ARTag, however, its code base is completely different. StbTracker has been written from scratch with high performance for PCs as well as mobile phones in mind. Hence, its memory requirements are very low (100KB) and processing is fast (e.g. 185 images / sec can be tracked with "simple Id" markers on a 312 MHz smartphone).
For some examples and demo see:
Downloads
[Blendernation]
From the creators of GraphicAll.org comes a slick new online tool for sharing programming code and text in many different formats, complete with syntax highlighting! Of particular interest to the Blender community is its built-in support for the Blender API.
PasteAll.org is the perfect place to store and share your Blender code. Simply paste it and save it, and your code is saved with a simple url and ID number:
http://pasteall.org/#
When you need to share your code, simply provide the url. Here’s an example url demonstrating Blender python code:
PasteAll.org recognizes the following formats:
abap, actionscript, ada, apache, applescript, asm, asp, autoit, bash, blitzbasic, bnf,
c, c_mac, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, cpp, cpp-qt, csharp, css, d, delphi, diff, div,dos,
eiffel, fortran, freebasic, genero, gml, groovy, haskell, html4strict, idl, ini, inno, io,
java5, java, javascript, latex, lisp, lua, m68k, mpasm, mysql, nsis, objc, ocaml,
ocaml-brief, oracle8, pascal, per, perl, php, php-brief, plsql, python, qbasic, rails,
reg, robots, ruby, sas, scheme, sdlbasic, smalltalk, sql, tcl, text, thinbasic, tsql, vb,
vbnet, vhdl, visualfoxpro, winbatch, xml, xpp, z80
