Future Stories Updates SnapDragonAR!
SnapDragonAR Version 1.0.8 is now available from Future Stories. It includes some amazing new features:
- 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/
Cinemagician at OSC comes to a close
We would like to thank the Ontario Science Centre again for allowing us to participate in the Amazing Cinemagician installation. If you missed it at the centre here are some images from Helen Papagiannis:
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.
ARLAB objects for Max/MSP – Verison 2 released!
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).
ARLAB Objects for Max/MSP
By Andrew Roth.
A collection of abstractions that can be used to connect to Intersense tracking grids (IS 900) and work as a complement to COSM for Max/MSP by the Media Arts & Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara, USA. Objects include abstractions for communicating to individual trackers by connecting them to cosm.nav objects, working with a Video Head Mounted Display as a background image and the is900.mxo itself. NOTE: you will have to perform an install of the COSM objects and the dynamic library from Intersense. Links are included in the is900.maxhelp file.
The Augmented Reality Lab is supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Research Chair Program, York Research, Ontario Innovation Trust, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.