Coolest Thing On The Web: Augmented Reality

There’s no need for me to write a description about this as there are dozens of Youtube videos up right now showing off this cool trick.  Like this one:

If you want to try this out for yourself you’ll need a webcam and you have to visit this website.   And yes, I realize how ironic it is to have a campaign that hails the greatness of renewable energy asking you to waste a piece of paper to play with a little 3D model of some windmills.  At least you can recycle that paper.

The only annoying thing about this is if you want to look at your little augmented reality up close, which requires putting the paper closer to the webcam… which can be tricky:

As demonstrated above, you can clearly see that there is a little scarecrow standing among the windmills.  Or maybe you can’t see because the paper is directly between you and your monitor!!!  Damn it!

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One Response to “Coolest Thing On The Web: Augmented Reality”

  1. snipercup Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Hi,

    Augmented reality is cool. It’s the first time i see it in the consumer market. I suppose the point of this video is not the cool windmill-thiny speciffically, but to show that the concept of augmented reality itself is cool.

    thank you for this demonstration.

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