What you could do is build a brochure that when held up to the webcam of a laptop etc or even a phone would produce an apparent ‘3d’ image.
Anyone played with the above for conferences and exhibitions?
Some software I know of
The Magicbook from the HITLab
http://www.hitlabnz.org/index.php/research/augmented-reality?view=project&task=show&id=54
Commercial
https://www.layar.com/
http://www.metaio.com/products/creator/
This is a commercial Australian-NSW company who might provide proof of concepts/examples
http://www.augmentedrealitydevelopment.com.au/products/augmented-reality-development/
Open source: augment for print (MQ Uni, with instructions)
https://wiki.mq.edu.au/display/ar/Systems
Please advise me of more!
Ear Zow Digital
Karen suggested http://www.poweredbystring.com/showcase
Think I tried this last year? Demo is a free download..
Hi Erik
I did this last year for a poster competition at UCL, London. I won top prize, so it must have been well received! I used Junaio as the software – mainly because it is really easy for anyone to download the app to their mobile device and then scan the QR code – which points them at the right AR channel. More info here:
http://www.dead-mens-eyes.org/future-of-conference-posters/
Prof, this is an excellent idea and I believe it has a lot of potentialities of both educational and commercial use. I have tried HiTLab’s BuildAR. Use of ‘osg’ format of 3D can give good rendered playback, however, it is quite difficult to export from 3DMax even I used plugins exporter. BuildAR supports other 3D formats, however, 3ds format can only render solid color and no texture.
I have tried both paid and free version of BuildAR. Paid version can track image as a marker. But the tracking is poor and the realtime rendering gives a ‘shaky’ or ‘vibrating’ view of the 3D object. Black & white square marker (i.e. Hiro) provides strong tacking in both version. I have used BuildAR for an exhibition of 20th anniversary of Architecture Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh.
If you are interested, I am ready to explore more 🙂