Inglobe Technologies has released a new version of their Google SketchUp Augmented Reality plugin, called the ARmedia Plugin. This version works on the Mac, and offers better real-time animation and tracking functions.
AR-media™ Plugin technology allows users to bring their models from the world famous 3D modelling tool by Google straight into “reality” just in a click. Once installed and configured the plug-in allows users to visualize any model (textured or not) in Augmented Reality and experience a totally new way to interact with their digital content and show it to their customers, colleagues and partners.
See a video of it in-action after the break.
via CGDigg: Your daily fresh CG news – Augmented Reality plugin for SketchUp now available for Mac.
This isn’t pointless at all !! Imagine this technology on a pair of glasse (already existing) or contact lenses. You can see the world with 3D stuff evrywear around you. It can be everything, it’s unlimited !
@ Fred
@Fred
I think that the point here is that such a plugin makes Augmented Reality available to everyone with ease…
“There is not true progress if Technology is not within range of everybody” (Henry Ford)
@ Yeraze
I suppose its the steady march of progress, I just think we really need to start getting away from these marker based apps. I mean as far as I am concerned they are better than nothing, but these days even the average PC can do better with computer vision techniques. If it was a mobile application I would excuse the marker use. 🙂
@Fred Imagine a situation where a customer has a physical model of a few city blocks, and wants to build a new building. Using AR, you could model the building in Sketchup (or whatever), and then let him physically move the marker around his physical city model and see how the building fits into the city.
Also, it would be useful for working with “life size” objects. Say a model of a Cellphone or a Laptop, and you could interact with the AR marker to see how looks and show it off to customers.
I know, they’re kinda frilly use-cases, but AR is currently a very “whiz-bang” show-off kind of technology.
I love AR stuff but this is pointless. You have the model right there on the screen, why do you need to see a picture of yourself holding it behind it?