Reading an article in this month’s Adobe Edge got me thinking again about augmented reality. I blogged about augmented reality back in March, so I was fascinated to see a tutorial on how to customize this technology yourself.
Augmented Business Card from jonas on Vimeo.
Reading this sparked me to research the topic further, which led me to an interesting site for the creation of augmented reality business cards
that can:
- let clients can easily get in touch with you via phone, SMS, E-mail or various social networks directly in the application
- let clients know what you are up to using various social networks (e.g. Twitter)
- show your portfolio
- let users navigate through images/video/3D models using gestures
The site says that a front-end tool for creating the presentation files is still under development, but the potential uses for this technology has got me thinking about how this might be applied to other areas.
For a more advanced tutorial on this augmented-reality technology, watch this 22-minute long Introduction to Augmented Reality video which lets you learn the basics of creating an AR application using the FLARToolKit.
But it comes with the warning: Not recommended for beginners.
Another jaw-dropping technology is Layar, the world’s first mobile augmented reality browser.
Can’t wait till they make a version for Yellowknife, but I guess it could be a while so I will try to be patient.
