iPhone Camera Overlays + iphonearkit

Hamish Rickerby — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:58:33 +0000

Today I have been hacking away on the iphonearkit source available at github and have incorporated the ARGeoViewController as an overlay over a ImagePickerController with the camera as the source (which was introduced with iPhone OS 3.1). Results below.

ARGeoViewController as the overlay on a ImagePickerController on iPhone

I want to tidy up some of the code before I check it back into my clone of the source, but this is a really good basis for some smart location and direction aware augmented reality apps on iPhone. Wonder what the iphonearkit license is – it’s unclear…

— EDIT —

Bugger. It appears that zac has implemented similar functionality to me already Bloody github and it’s slow (never!) updates to fork queues and network graphs. Oh well, maybe I won’t bother tidying my code.

Augmented Reality – Hello World

Hamish Rickerby — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:07:09 +0000

I’ve recently discovered augmented reality. After I saw my first “virtual business card” application I was hooked. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and experimenting with software over the past 2 days, and have got ARToolkit working here. Here are some shots of the obligitory “cube over marker” demo. I would post a video, but my screen capture software and AR software = a really poor frame rate and substandard video

Marker with no overlaid image

Blue cube over the Hiro marker

Next up, something more substantial.

I ticked the wrong box » augmented reality

iPhone Camera Overlays + iphonearkit

Augmented Reality – Hello World