About a month ago I wrote a blog post about Augmented Reality and gave a demo using my own webcam and home PC. I showed this technology off at the CEGSA conference too where a lot of teachers were blown away by the idea and the power of the tool. The more I look into this, the faster it grows and the more I wonder whether eventually we’ll be able to get rid of hard surface IWBs and the Webcam will take over for us!
Augmented Reality even made it onto the Channel 9 news this morning! Uni SA are also offering a seminar on the subject next Wednesday if anyone is interested. It should be great. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend as I’m training some lovely teachers on IWBs that afternoon but I will be tuning into the webcast afterwards. 🙂 You need to email in if you’re planning to attend – All the details can be found here
Since I wrote that article I’ve had a few people contact me about AR projects that they are involved in. This morning one such person emailed me with a link to his own research project into using AR for educational and rehabilitation. I’ve just been playing with a full body piano and flapping about in mid air squashing odd numbers! Great fun 🙂 Here’s a link to Dr Masciopinto’s work if you’re interested 🙂 (His site is available in English and Italian)
Please keep the comments coming. If you know of any good AR software please let me know. There seems such a demand I may start adding them into the resources library under AR 🙂 Here’s a game of Dominoes to get you started 😉
A couple of AR games:
– Cannonballz – http://www.cannonballzthegame.com
– Soccer Banner Ad – http://cdn.eyewonder.com/100125/adWdrDemos/56254654/56254654_52776799_110051_Demo.html
Both use ZugMO software from Zugara – motion capture / augmented reality tech that works in Flash…no downloads or plug-ins…
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