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‘augmented reality’

Augmented Reality Leading Dassault Deeper Into Entertainment Scene?

17 Mar, 2011 by Josh Mings in NEWS
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You, and whatever you like to feed extruded bits of colored grain to, now have even more incentive to pour the tasty bits and a gallon of milk directly down your gullet. Nestle and Dassualt are teaming up to bring out a new augmented reality (AR) game based on the new computer-animated film from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.

The Rio 3D Augmented Reality game forces you to prematurely cut up your cereal box to access the AR marker which is then used a a controller for the game. All good fun. However, it hints at bigger plans for Dassault and their 3DVIA brand.

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3D Augmented City. Digital Info Will Surround and Absorb You.

22 Dec, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

I think you’d agree. There’s just not enough visual clutter surrounding us as we go about our daily lives. It would be so much better if we were surrounded by an orb of interface efficiency.

Fortunately, there are people thinking the very same thing, but not only thinking it… creating it and putting together 3D videos to show just what it would be like. Keiichi Matsuda is augmenting his reality to show you how yours may be augmented in the future. Put your anaglyph glasses on.

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Excuse me, Scrawl. Your 3D Drawings are Crowding My Reality.

15 Nov, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

It almost never fails. You find a nice secluded beach, a tree deep in the forest, or a pile of shredded newspaper to call your own, when suddenly, giant color blobs of 3D start appearing around you. It would be ok, except for one thing… the person creating the color blobs is YOU.

You’re doing it with Scrawl from augmented reality phenom group, String. Scrawl is a new app (releasing in the next couple months) that allows you to layer 3D sketches on top of your environment with nothing but your meaty nub. Here’s a fast look at how it’s happening and what 3D real-time AR design may be like in… the future.

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What Did SolidWorks Do With Dizziness, Projectile Vomiting and Stereoscopic 3D?

10 Mar, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH

If you’re like me, you know there’s nothing like spinning around till you stumble and slam your head through a 3D display. The small joys of life. Much like being able to model 3D on a display while wearing some dope looking lenses and chewing on a stick of butter. At least it use to be like that for SolidWorks users.

Some people got excited when SolidWorks added Stereoscopic 3D support using StereoGraphics CrystalEyes in 2005. Technology and user’s interests changed, and two years later… they canned it.

So what happened? What did SolidWorks do with the ability to viewing models with 3D glasses and a 3D monitor or projector? We got a hold of Kirk Haller, Director of Research at SolidWorks to find out what happened and whats going on to bring back the flurry of 3D that’s all the rage with the kids these days.

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Big Bad Simulation Hack for 3D Augmenting Reality on the iPhone

20 Oct, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

I know, you see it there… on the screen, but then you look on the table… and it’s not there, IT’S NOT THERE. Ya know why, huh? huh? Because it’s Augmented Reality (AR), and your neural pathways are about to be re-myelinated with 3D augmented goodness.

ISMAR 2009 (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality) is happening this week in beautiful Orlando, Florida. It’s where anyone and everyone involved in redefining what we visualize in real space is talking about or demoing what’s next in AR.

There are mucho applications for this in product development. Not suprisingly, one of them inolves analysing 3D geometry… via an iPhone. Here’s just one demo you’ll see being shown this week and a link to much, much more.

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3DVia Jabs 3D Augmented Reality Elfin Game Fun Into Your Eyehole

16 Oct, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Yes, it’s all fun and games until… someone jabs an elfin creature in the eye, gets a gnarly infection and start projectile vomiting all over the place. Fortunately, it’s a virtual elfin creatures we’re talking about. The people behind it… 3DVia.

Last week at the Dassault Customer Conference, I found out some top secret (totally-not-top-secret) information about what 3DVia and Dassault has been working on behind the scenes. A new augmented reality game. But get this, it’s not just regular old AR…
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Get Your Virtual Viewing On STAT with the 3DVia Mobile iPhone App

22 Sep, 2009 by Josh Mings in NEWS

So, I’m minding my own business, trying to increase my high score on Scramble 2 when all of a sudden I feel a tremor in the 3D mobile app force. Nope, it wasn’t the tomatillo enchiladas. There had been, as a matter of fact, a new iPhone app approved.

The 3DVia Mobile iPhone app. It’s out as of now and for the time, it’s completely free at the iTunes App store. What? You’re a bit skeptical of ‘free’ and wondering what new and wonderous power lies within this 3D app? Not a problem. We’ve got the details.

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Face-Tracking 3D Space With Your Webcam. Potential For 3D CAD?

21 Apr, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Welcome. It’s knee-slappin’, face-movin’ time again here on SolidSmack and this week we introduce to you Mr. Doob, who thought it a pleasant idea, in his Flash experimentation, to show you what it’s like to have a 3D scene position itself based on the position of you melon.

You can play with the mouse-driven version, but to really experience it, and you have to experience it, you can get in the Face tracking + 3D Scene action here if you have a webcam.

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The Extremely Huge (and Slightly Imaginative) Augmented Expectations of Future 3D CAD Users

18 Mar, 2009 by Josh Mings in CAD

Set the sticks and mud aside. Playing with objects in our physical world is nothing against the impending sensorific-digitized-virtual-realitastic onslaught of completely augmented playtime for you and the kiddos.

You may be seeing Frantz Lasorne very cool concept for a ‘blaster bot’ style kids game floating around. It uses nothing but the pure goodness of Augmented Reality and overactive imaginations juiced by years of uber-gaming and bags of twizzlers.

The future of CAD and PLM is bound to undergo some changes due to the expectations of kids playing games currently available and games like these that are setting up new ways of how people (future CAD users) interact with their environment. You’d expect there would be some expectations, right?

Here they are, but be careful… expectations are not what you may… expect.

First, check out the video.
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Product Visualization? Augmented Reality? It Goes a Little Sumthin’ Like This LEGO Man

26 Jan, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

lego-digital-box-3dYou’re running down the isle, pouring consumer goods into your buggy and in the crazed rampage you wonder exactly what that boxed ham slicer is gonna look like sitting on your counter. It’s hard to imagine, but the first word you think is HIDEOUS.

You move on to the LEGOs and there, shining in brilliant digitized glory is the LEGO Digital Box interface. You hold the box out and instantly you see the product 3-dimensionally in it’s completed state. *gasp*

You must have it.
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