Getting Started with AR
If you found this page it’s probably because attended one of my face-to-face Augmented Reality workshops. Listed below is a collection of materials that were discussed during the session – if you have any questions please feel free to get in touch! Thanks!
-Craig
Presentation Resources
- Main link to my Youtube channel (videos from almost all of my AR demos are up there)
- Zooburst Augmented Reality Pop-Up Books
- Live demo: Earth / Moon
- Live demo: Solar System
- Live demo – Labyrinth Physics
- Live demo – Catch a Star (Assistive Tech) (motion tracking augmented reality)
- Live demo – Virtual Gardener (color tracking augmented reality)
- The Whisper Deck: A voice-controlled augmented reality search engine
- SimSnails: An augmented reality ecosystem that helps kids learn about and experiment with the concepts of directional selection and evolution.
- Frontline Digital Nation (PBS)
- Topps Baseball Cards in Augmented Reality
- Live demo – Plug into the Smart Grid (GE):
- Esquire Magazine – Augmented Reality Edition
- Hallmark Augmented Reality Greeting Cards
- Augmented Textbooks (Larngear Technologies)
- Chemistry Simulation (Larngear Technologies)
- Augmented Physics (HIT Lab)
- Augtopia: AR Action Figure for Kids
- Put a Spell: Augmented Reality Spelling game for the iPhone
- The Do Crew: AR Cartoon / Website / Virtual World for kids
- The Carbon Peep Show: Dollar Bill Recognition
- Fashionista: Augmented Reality Shopping
- Augmented Reality Legos
- We are Autobots: Face Detection
- Layar: Mobile AR Browser
- Virtual Public Art Project (using Layar)
- Google Skymap
- QR Code generator
- Web-based QR Code reader
- Tagwhat: Take pictures and tag your own environment on your mobile device
- Independence Navigator: Philadelphia National Park AR app for the iPhone
- The 6th Sense (MIT)
- An AR version of the future (Sorin Voicu)
Hands-on Resources
- Public Augmented Reality Project Demos (PDF)
- Download the Easy Augmented Reality Template (ZIP, 9.4mb)
Tutorial Resources
- Create your own AR marker from a PNG file (follow the instructions and make sure that your patter is set to 16×16 resolution – then place the .pat file into the Data directory of your AR project. Finally, change the code on line 41 ([Embed(source="Data/zbmarker.pat", mimeType = "application/octet-stream")]) to point to your new pattern file)
- Good description on how to visually design an AR marker
- Google Sketchup 3D Warehouse (to download KMZ files that can be displayed in AR). Hint: Use the ‘advanced search’ feature to limit your search to KMZ files. Only choose files that are of low or medium complexity in order to prevent Flash from chugging too much!
- Augmented Reality in Processing (thanks to Dan O’Sullivan for this tutorial!)