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Amazing Technology – ‘Augmented Reality’ from Adobe Flash Platform

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“Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.” — Wikipedia

In other words, “Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer science that involves combining the physical world and an interactive, three-dimensional virtual world.”

My simple and tiny observation of AR, “Using a web camera, the Adobe Flash player, and open-source tools, it is possible to generate animated 3D objects in real-time. This Flash Augmented Reality utilizes the Papervision3D project and the FLAR Toolkit.” These are two tools for generating 3D objects that are free. Hope this will help you to identify the play behind Flash AR.

What is FLARToolKit?

FLash Augmented Reality Toolkit. It is a Flash Actionscript port of ARToolKit, a software library for building Augmented Reality applications. The FLARToolKit will bring all of this to your webbrowser when you have a webcam and a latest Flash Player.

This is one of the most exciting and great Flash Stuffs I’ve ever seen  as of now. Saqoosha, a Japanese Flash developer has developed this FLARToolkit with plenty of cool features. You will need a the Flash Player 9, a webcam and you’ll need to print out this marker. This is Flash!  My Favourite Flash’s best one . 😉

Augmented Reality @Adobe MAX 2009,

This is the sample widget of Adobe MAX 2009 AR Show.

SmartGrid Augmented Reality by GE

General Electric corporation showcased Augmented Reality in a recent marketing campaign for its Smart Grid, renewable energy program. http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

Best Sources which I’ve found for you to get the complete idea of Augmented Reality in FlashPlatform,

Step by Step procedure to create AR using Flash CS4 Professional by  Samuel Ashe (Flash Designer/Develoepr)

FLARToolkit Details | Start-up guide from Saqoosha (original developer)

Download the sample and Source of FLARToolkit

Some interesting Getting  started article (Superb tutorial to implement AR in real-time)

Augmented Reality @ MAX 2009 – Perfect demonstration of AR

Real time play by FLARToolkit

Grid Card | SmartGrid

Videos : Interactive 3D Boating | Topps 3D (good meat for eyes 😉 )

Do share your thoughts on this real-time Technology.

Adobe, Flash, RIA

Great showz @ Adobe Online Creative Festivals

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Once again Adobe has shown and opened it’s awesome products demonstration with cool tips and tricks among the regions like India, South East Asia, China, Japan, and …  some… 🙂

This Festivals held on Feb 23, 2010 in Online through Adobe Acrobat Connect with huge number of Audience across the regions.  There were two Seminar rooms, a Chat Room, a Gallery and a Adobe Store had created to make the festival in a great and much interactive way.

  • Room I for Photoshop and other related suites (Design Premium Suites).
  • Room II for Flash,  Web2.0, Flex, Action Script and Photography.

Since it was the parallel tracks, I have attended only the Seminar Room II sessions.

  • A Chat Room to chat with Adobe Experts for instant doubts and queries from the sessions.
  • Gallery – You can upload your own creativity stuffs created with the help of Adobe Products. It can be an Audio, Image or SWF. Great way to promote yourself..
  • Adobe Store – good opportunity to become a Ambassador of Adobe India.  I simply subscribed since I’m a great fan of Adobe. :mrgreen:  If god wishes, I will become a Ambassador of Adobe India, not an easy task but have to work hard.. Let’s see..

This is the Adobe Online Screen on Creative Festival

Home Screen

Sessions @ Seminar Room II

Vyshak Venugopal sessions

AS2.0 and As3.0

Web 2.0 Session

These two above sessions are my favourite one 🙂  .. So I simply taken screen-shots. Oh ! oh !..Other sessions were also great .. But I’ve already had some experience with other session demos, so I didn’t concentrate much on that.
1. Flash CS4 essential Tips and Tricks

2. Fireworks CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4 for Web2.0

3. AS2.0 and AS3.0 comparison coverage

He spoke a lot about Dreamweaver CS4 , Fireworks CS4 and Flash CS4 for creating Web 2.o apps. I had a great time by knowing some cool tips and tricks from these two sessions.  He also shared some clear and confined details on Action Script 2.0 (AS2.0) and Action Script 3.0(As3.0), some doubts were cleared from my popping mind .. If you would have attend these sessions, definitely you would have been enjoyed on these products ..

Harish Sivaramakrishnan session

I. Flash Catalyst

Oh! Oh! 😉  .. Coming to Harish’s session, I had attended many sessions of Flash Catalyst by him.. All are pretty unique and clear demos.. Keen to watch his space for the upcoming secrets from Adobe. He said we may expect a full version of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder in this year. 😉 How great ! ! ! Can’t wait Adobe..

Bhende session (I forgot the full name 🙁  )

I. Tools for Photography

This is the cool and nice session for Photographer, if you would have attend this session, you would definitely try to become a Photographer .. not joking guys..  He has shown some cool tips/tricks and work flow of Photoshop, LightRoom and Bridge CS4.  LighRoom is the much needed product for Photographers.

I knew you’re gonna start using Adobe Suites.  See you with another awesome suite experience..