Augmented Reality Experiments With Unity3D

Another Unity3D side project among the ones we are currently developing - lining up next to our anaglyph package and the Kinect experiments - is the Augmented Reality tests we have in progress and which allow us to put another "oooh" in the mouths of people stopping by our offices.

Of course we didn't make the 3D models you can see up there, but Link seemed like a proper character to have some fun.

The webcam recognizes special markers printed on paper and assigns a character to them. At the moment we managed to make it recognize 2 distinct ones and, according to distance and orientation (as you can see in the movie), they stand idle or start beating each other up without mercy.

I have been asked to write a bit about augmented reality and its applications since a while, especially by my friend Petya Georgieva who will interview me for her blog as soon as I have a free moment (if you read this Petya, this is the prequel to your interview, I am getting there I promise!).

I'll be sure to add more movies as we progress in the development - especially of the iPhone version which is in the works - and keep you updated on the results.

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• videogames
• ar
• virtual worlds
• 3d
• zelda
• gaming
• social games
• technology
• videogaming
• modeling
• animation

[arturosg9]

great!! how do you project their shadows without a virtual surface?

[esimplestudios]

@arturosg9 Hah I wish I personally knew! Jokes part, I'll forward this to our CTO and see if he got time to give an answer, thanks for the comment!

[MrApeneck]

nice

[esimplestudios]

@MrApeneck well thanks

[MethelinaPills]

Awesome! Reminds me avatar`s Augmented Reality.

But in Unity! Great work, greets!

[esimplestudios]

@MethelinaPills I wouldn't go as far as to say that, but thanks :D Glad you liked it!

[UL439]

are you using ARToolkit? Those are their markers... I tried to use it but gave up, figuring out the view transform matrix (other than GL) was a nightmare. I had better luck with Aruco, but I feel I'm far from being using he optimal technology. Suggestions?

[ChaoticTrack]

AWESOME!!!! :D

[Robots4Sale]

iphone app yet?

[salem1526]

@arturosg9 the simple way is to set a plane, that only recibe shadows ;)

[samurai2150]

What is the white object that they stand on?!

[FrozenWolf5182]

forget it for link, Do this for things like yu-gi-oh :L

[jpatinop]

Do you use qualcomm script?

[TMBfan96]

omg!!! mind blown! ive seen abunch of videos but i just realized that there could be an augmented reality super smash bros. and like we could be spectators and such or take control! thatd be soooooooo cool

[standardinput]

This is without a doubt the coolest thing I've seen today. Way to augment.