Augmented reality video 'windows'

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2010/04/18 @ 12:06 pm
Category Computers & Mobile, Craft

This fun project reminds me of the video wall in the Arno movie Total Recall.

â€¢Custom Winscape software with configurable screen parameters
â€¢Two HD plasma displays for great contrast and wide viewing angles
â€¢Video playback resolution of 1920×1080 with sound
â€¢Still-image resolution of 4096×4096
â€¢Fully embedded in the wall for aesthetics and silent operation
â€¢Tracking of one person in the room for proper perspective presentation
â€¢Scheduled on/off
â€¢iPhone and web control of sleep/wake/scene selection

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5 Responses to Augmented reality video 'windows'

vrandy.myopenid.com on April 18th, 2010 at 12:41 pm said:

You’ve got a
tag in the URL of the first link.

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vrandy.myopenid.com on April 18th, 2010 at 12:44 pm said:

You could probably improve this with some sort of facial tracking.

… Still, it would only track one person. Good enough for those of us living along, though.

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dZed on April 18th, 2010 at 12:48 pm said:

Now they just need to figure out how the “windows” can produce pseudo-sun light so we can all get our vitamin D without ever going outside again. That, and a view…

Pretty neat, though. Reminds me of the “paintings” that change depending on whose in the room in Bill Gates’s house.

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Alan on April 18th, 2010 at 4:12 pm said:

If you have a spare closet, you could do this trick without having to use head-tracking. Paint the inside of the closet black, and install a very large screen or projection TV inside it. Replace the closet door with a wall containing two windows. When you look through the windows, you’ll actually be looking a few feet across the closet to the big screen. Moving around will change the portion of the screen you see. If you use a projection TV, you could reflect it off a mirror or two to enlarge the image more in a small space.

This would also solve the multiple-person problem – the view of the closet would change appropriately for everyone in the room.

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phm on April 19th, 2010 at 1:13 am said:

Although this project per definition augments the real world, it is not “Augmented reality” to me.

To me it means a videostream that has extra information added that is tracked to the location of the camera(s) making the data appear to be a part of the world presented through the camera.

Check the rest of the “Augmented reality”-links under “More:”, to see what I mean.

I first came in contact with the expression as I was heavily into VR in the late -90:s and early 2000 and I look forward to seeing more projects like this and the linked ones.

I just felt surprised when the expression was used in another context in this article.

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