On December 17, 2007 Raimund Dachselt gave a presentation about “Three Dimensional Interaction Techniques and Zoomable User Interfaces for Mixed Reality Applications”. Currently, Raimund is an associate professor at the University of Magdeburg. During his visit at the Media Interaction Lab, we decided to work together on new collaborative tabletop applications. More details about his talk can be found here.
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A really impressive presentation was given at ICAT 2007 by Jonathan J. Hull (Ricoh). In his talk, Jonathan presented “Paper-Based Augmented Reality”, where he demonstrated a clickable paper. Check out this website for further information.
A really smart LED projector is proposed by SAMSUNG. The P310 supports SVGA (native: 800 x 600, maximum: 1024 x 768) with 50 ANSI Lumen (1300 Lux), contrast 1000:1, picture format (4:3, 16:9), keystone correction (+/- 15°), and 25dB(A).
Speakers from Microsoft Research show how to give a great research talk. Really nice presentation! More can be found here.
The ISMAR workshop “Mixed Reality Entertainment & Art” has started. Jakob presented the collaborative tabletop game “Comino” which was attended by over 40 participants. Steven Zhou ZhiYing presented the first commercial available Augmented Reality product wIzQubesTM (besides Sony’s eyeToy), which you can get for 60 USD in Singapore. Actually, this games is designed for kids and allows them to create their own stories by moving physical cubes. Two cubes, with a embedded markers are tracked by a camera. In contrast to the ARToolkit, Steven tracks more marker surfaces at once which results in higher accuracy and less jittering.
Another highlight was the color changing on fabric using thermochromic ink. This work was demonstrated by James KS Teh, who is currently working at the Mixed Reality Lab of the National University of Singapore. The Japanese artist Dr. Ichi Kanaya also showed his very innovative and inspiring work, e.g. future furniture. The RGBy desk allows to illuminate an RGB-based table by putting colored paper on the surface. fuwapca suite is another project where he can illuminate furniture based on the users’ behavior.
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