Exploring a street of Kyoto with Engage.

Well the title might sound a little strange and confusing. Never the less, as most of us know Kyoto is a city in japan should have said a beautiful one at that and Engage is the project which I work these days. Things are really getting heated both with the project and rest of the stuffs that I’m up to these days causing me to go quite for sometime.

Anyhow, one of the things which impressed a lot at the start of this project was Augmented Reality (AR) where virtuality and reality come together. Normally, a virtual object or an animation is augmented on a real video or an image (content) using a marker where the virtual object always shown on top of the real content. But my interest, ever since I first happen to see this was on using it for computer interaction besides there are many possibilities that exists with AR specially when it is combined with holography which can surely bring to light an unseen dimension to our lives and produce great results.

Getting back to the post, this shows an example panorama which can be explored using a marker. It was intentional here to refrain from augmenting specially, to show the possibility of using marker for interaction and even for wearable computing. Enjoy :)

Acknowledgments:

I have adapted an image of a street in Kyoto for the example which is available at, http://wallpaper.free-photograph.net/en/photobase/yp5745.html

And the background music for this video was taken from,
http://ccmixter.org/files/Ihaveriffs/22440 which was released under creative commons license.

Firefox Party at IIT

Well it was the first day of lectures for us after the completion of placement. No doubt it’s going to be a hectic year ahead of us. But there was a huge surprise and sudden fun surrounded us during our short break of half an hour between the first two lectures.

It was not more than one and a half month since I joined spread firefox as a campus rep. And ma first opportunity to grab a swags pack came just few weeks back and for ma amazement I received the pack within three weeks. After discussing with some of the other firefox freaks at IIT, we decided to through the party on the very first day itself.

So unexpectedly, the break between the first two lectures turned out be the time for Firefox Party. I should thank CJ for helping me immensely to get it underway in no-time.

There was great curiosity to know how to get swags pack on their own hence, we gave a glimpse of Spread Firefox and Campus Reps Initiative and also some materials related to getting started with Firefox Add-ons development for those who were interested on it. So hope to see some new reps in action from IIT very shortly. The event was thoroughly entertaining and was a tremendous experience. Everyone seem to have enjoyed it to the utmost. Expecting more of these FF Parties at IIT in the near future.

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