Live Mesh
LiveMesh! is an augmented reality application which uses Wavefront objects (Blender can export until version 2.49b) and a pattern to show your 3D model in a live camera stream. How does it work?
Without going too much into details, the software reads frames from the webcam stream and at any step tries to find the pattern in the current frame. If the marker is found, geometric transformations are calculated and the object is drawn according to the pattern position, rotation and scale.
Currently the application is just for OSX, I apologize for that and I promise that a Windows version will be ready as soon as my other pc will be up and running again. If somebody quite skilled with programming wants to port it on Linux drop me a message. ;)
This article has no heading so i can’t access it from http://www.blender.org. Think you should add one.
Other than that it looks good. Though there’s no linux, which is sad.
i just used another app. BuilderAR for Windows and I used blender models.
No heading on blender.org
Awesome but i bet its difficult
Fixed the heading, thanks
I almost thought they were posting something about Windows Live Mesh :P
Looks good, but I think there is a small bug on calculating the z position. I think only some offset needed.
You’re right endi, it was my mistake, I forgot to set the “queen” object center to the base instead of the center of the mesh :)
You have to be careful before you export the OBJ, but anyway with some trial and error tuning it doesn’t take more than 5 mins :)
This is truly amazing!
Yet another software that uses ARToolkit. I’m glad about the .OBJ thing though, the standard VRML way was more annoying to export.
EDIT: Ugh, only for MacOS? Pretty useless right now then.
Finally! Free glyph tracking! waiting anxiously for the windows version!
3dmagix dot com
son of … they sneaked in the blender GPL license in the terms so what they are doing might be legal but so deceiving since they place the link in a very hidden place at the bottom of their page and then the license is mentioned
making people pay 47 dollars for a program they did not code and is free and open source
Note: GPL Compliant. Full Source & License Available in CD. Screenshots Licensed Under C.C 2.0
how?
this is awesome, got it working with my own models right in my room!
flickers in and out alot but im sure that’s just because i’m using the built-in camera.
interested in how this kind of technology is being/will be used?
Thanks guys, I’ll try to build the Windows version today, I’ll put an update on my blog by the evening (remember that I live in Finland, so in 12h :) )
to me it looks like a ARtoolkit clone
If you read the post migero, you’d have noticed that I used the ARToolkit libs. ARToolkit is not a software (even if the company provides it’s own AR product), but it’s a library that it’s used in AR applications, have a look here ;)
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/projects/
ps: UPDATE, I just uploaded the Windows version. Since I got a lot of requests, I borrowed from a colleague of mine his machine and compiled the application on it! :)
It should work under XP, Vista and 7, however I just have XP so I can’t really say if it really works, you can report me any problem if you run in trouble :)
The tracking part should make it into blender as an motion tracker tool ;)
I’m not really not that skilled in coding BUT i will really appreciate if there was a LINUx version.
I was hoping to have a god AR. tool for linux in the future!