I have been playing with the ARToolkit which is a really amazing piece of software. It allows a real-time video stream from a camera to be mixed with virtual stuff. Here is me holding two bits of paper with special markers on them. The cube and sphere are being added to the image in software and I can wave the markers about and the objects stay ‘attached’ to them. It is quite spooky.
This is running on Ubuntu, but not a webbook just yet. With OpenVRML it should be possible to attach all sorts of objects to the markers.
Err, why?
Sorry, my comment above might seem a bit rude. I was trying to say that I was wondering whether this software would have a practical application.
I’ll tell you where it is extremely useful – school.
Once upon a time I was editing graphics for the Science Department at my old school, and had an awful set of photos to turn into a powerpoint (sorry!) sequence that looked like a mission control in outer space.
Now, if I’d had that, combined with the blue screen I know we’ve got in school, I could have done loads of things with it. Like making my holographic globe actually move and be holographic…
Guess who’ll be on Synaptic later today? Lol.
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It isn’t in Synaptic, had to compile it myself. It needed quite a few dependencies installed, when I install it on a webbook I will make a list.
School is right, that’s exactly the sort of thing my son would be interested in!