A demonstration video for the Junaio channel, Mao Wants This Dollar! Created by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes for Manifest.AR at the Boston Cyberarts Festival 2011.

Learn More:
http://institute.emerson.edu/vma/faculty/john_craig_freeman/Manifestar_ICA/

The popular ARToolkit library has been ported to work with Max/MSP.  This simple 4 marker object is released under the GPL License and available from Aranar Productions.  For more information, contact ARToolworks.

• Chromakey your images to create a transparent background!
• Compress movies for use in SnapDragonAR right from within the software!
• New camera resolution and orientation settings.
• Now read quicktime RTSP as well as HTTP streams.  Host your own content to share with others.
• Automated authorization process.

http://futurestories.ca/snapdragonar/

What happens when technology breaks or behaves in unexpected ways? Why is this important to embrace? Papagiannis will speak to her PhD research in interactive art installations in Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality.

Helen Papagiannis is an artist, designer, and researcher specializing in Augmented Reality (AR). Hailed as being among the top 10 forces currently shaping the AR industry (Leading AR News Blog, Games Alfresco), Papagiannis has been working with AR since 2005 exploring the creative possibilities and theoretical implications for this exciting emerging technology. Recently, Papagiannis’ interactive artworks were featured in an exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre. She is presently completing her Ph.D. in Communication and Culture at York and is a Senior Research Associate at the Augmented Reality Lab (Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts). Prior to her graduate studies, Helen was a member of the internationally renowned Bruce Mau Design studio, where she was project lead on Massive Change: The Future of Global Design.

The Amazing Cinemagician installed at the York Glendon Campus for TEDx.  Helen Papagiannis installed the exhibit which debuted this summer at the Ontario Science Centre and was featured as a TEDx presenter.  We were proud to support one of our senior researchers at this event.  Visitors were offered the delightful digital cinematic prestidigitation as they entered the Manor House on Glendon Campus using RFID technology and a walkthrough Fogscreen projection screen.

Lightning Talk by Andrew Roth: How to Make your own Augmented Reality Popup book in 5 minutes. Based on the projects we did with the Toronto Museum Project and the Ontario Science Centre we are distributing a DIY kit for creating your own FLARToolkit pop-up book. See it in action at osc , Toronto , Requiem ,
click on the links on each page to download the source. Each source contains a reusable .swf you can populate with images just by editing the file playlist.xml. You can even make your own marker, create a pattern at Marker Generator Online , add it to the data folder and just swap out the name of your new .pat in pattern path=”data/oscmkrb16.pat” in the file flarConfig.xml.
Download the Source.

“Thank you so much to the organizers at Site 3 for hosting this event and inviting me to present”.

The presentation slides available on Andrew Roth’s website:

“Make Your Own Augmented Reality Pop-up Book” Presentation Slides

Photo: Pippin Lee

“Wonder Turner” Ontario Science Centre installation from Augmented Stories on Vimeo.

“The Amazing Cinemagician”, Homage a George Melies, FogScreen + RFID from Augmented Stories on Vimeo.

In 2010, the Banff New Media Institute revitalized their VR CAVE. In keeping with work being done in the Augmented Reality Lab at York University, the framework used in the lab was made to be easily repurposed, portable, and capable of running on both a laptop or multiple computers.
1. Create a server patch using cave.server and cave.send objects.
2. Modify cave.world (see the Readme File for details) to configure the number and positioning of the screens. You will also likely have to reconfigure cave.audio to match the speaker layout in your cave.
3. Create a single renderer patch using cave.world and cave.receive objects.
See cave.world.maxhelp for examples.

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The newest in the set of helper objects for Cosm in order to create Augmented Reality environments. Greatly simplified workflow in order to get you up and running quickly. Try it on your own machine, you don’t need a tracking system in order to take advantage of the navigational hotkeys supplied by the Cosm objects.

*Requires a full install of the Cosm library and the Intersense tracking .dylib. See is900.maxhelp for instructions.

Visit the Cosm Project site.
Learn more about Intersense Tracking units.

Change Log:
Fixed: June 28, 2010 – Fixed Intersense transformations for room dimensions
Fixed: June 25, 2010 – installs to proper folders (Max5/examples/arlab)

New objects:
arlab.bonk: greatly simplified collision reporting.
arlab.hand: a virtual hand which can be used for testing touch interactions.
arlab.mov: simplified videoplanes with spatialized sound, supports drag and drop.
arlab.sound: simplified soundfile with spatialized sound, supports drag and drop.
arlab.world: patcherargs allow you to define the the size of your own workspace.

Also:
is900.mxo – fixed for Snow Leopard Compatibility, performance enhancements.
Some free models (.obj).
7 lessons on interactivity and building your world (in Max5/examples/arlab).

Experience cutting-edge technological wizardry that blurs the lines between art, design and science in The Amazing Cinemagician: New Media Meets Victorian Magic, opening May 29 at the Ontario Science Centre’s Idea Gallery.

The exhibition features two interactive installations by new media artist and York University PhD student Helen Papagiannis that use augmented reality (AR) technology, fog screen and radio frequency identification (RFID).

Experience the Magic Tunnel Popup Book online!