New AR game from Dassault System

Following the last Rio game. Dassault System will release the King Fu Panda 2 game.

Here the preview :


Source 3DVF

Kinect camera

Here at 1.04 you will see the Kinect camera hardware (2 cameras, depth, Color).

The motorized base can rotate the top sensor bar to track you as you dance around the room

Note; It's fun to see that a system for dissipate thermic energy is present ! (ventilator).

Source : Here

Popcode AR for mobile phone

"Popcode is what is known in the trade as a Markerless Augmented Reality platform. That means you can add additional content onto any image (providing it has enough texture). You do not need to print large black-and-white markers to be able to add Augmented Reality (AR) content to the world using Popcode." The product was realized by Extra Reality Ltd.



For the tech side :
The founder are Simon Taylor, Dr. Tom Drummond (The thesis supervisor of Simon) and Connell Gauld (Mobile platform coder expert).

=> They used Fast corder detector, HIPS matching.
I let you see the SDK !

And the demos :

I have tested Kinect !

Kinect from Microsoft works well. Sometimes it lag, but it works quite good.

You are able to recognize your avatar posture immediately, normal, it's you !
When you play you move a lot, and you have a lot of fun.

I have got a good score in the three mini games I have tested so I got the right to record my own dance and see some avatar make the same moves as me in music !

 WII tested, Kinect Tested.... Remains the PlaystationMove...

Augmented reality in train station

I have see in the Paris (Gare de Lyon) train station a augmented reality application.

Basically it show the shops, train places, train station reception desk. The screen is touch sensitive and you have to turn the screen in the indicated direction and a video show you the path you have to follow to go to the desired place.

It works not so bad. The system is called "DirectiVision". I cannot know more about the company for the moment because the website is under construction. (a french company).

The system do not use computer vision system (I think), only a rotation sensor to know in which direction the user look at.