Tag: tv

AR Annotation on the iPhone

Posted by Sean – September 9, 2008

VentureBeat has an article about Tonchidot presenting their Sekai Camera at TechCrunch50 and it apparently has some kind of augmented reality annotation functionality on the iPhone. Looking at the video, it’s not clear if this is all Wizard of Oz or if they’re doing some kind of real localization and registration using features (like SIFT), tags (probably not), or positioning of some sort. My guess is that this isn’t really annotating the real world but I’d love for them to prove me wrong. Then maybe they’d go either further and use Blaine Bell’s view management algorithms to make it look nice.

httpv://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=KgTwSXK_5dg

Augmented Reality in Sportscasting

Posted by Sean – September 8, 2008

I’ve seen this in a couple of places – looks like an AR overlay of Madden Football on sports commentators so they can talk about possible scenarios, using it as a simulator more than a game. Pretty nice. I wonder if they’ll deal with occlusions and shadows on the commentator?