Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Camera-based interaction on a Magalhães netbook
15:09
Have a look as one of our YLabbies tests some YVision-based apps on Magalhães (the made-in-Portugal classmate pc) with an Intel(R) Atom(TM) N270 CPU @ 1.60GHz and an Intel(R) 945 Express chipset.
Camera-based interaction on a netbook from YDreams on Vimeo.
Tags: 3D, augmented reality, classmate pc, magalhães, netbook, real time, YDreams, YVision
March 24th, 2009 at 23:47
The fist app reminds me of the 1999 Interactive Installation “Text Rain” by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv. http://www.camilleutterback.com/textrain.html
Are you guys actively developing ‘games’ and other sort of apps specifically for this ‘plataform’ Magalhães? I can see it already “Game Developed for Magalhães” or “Magalhães Software” .. actually, now that I think about it, it isn’t that strange that you are actually developing apps and games for it, as we are talking about a machine with standard specs across the line, cheap and sponsored by the state and the word-of-the-mouth atm and we are talking a potential market of thousands of people. :O
March 25th, 2009 at 11:51
No, we aren’t planning on developing games and other apps specifically for the Magalhães netbook. We chose Magalhães as a good example of how an extremely sofisticated and versatile platform such as YVision, could run so smoothly on a smaller, less powerful netbook.
March 26th, 2009 at 13:46
“Impressive… Most impressive” (sic Darth Vader)
Technology wise it’s great to see a powerful and sophisticated platform such as YVision work on an entry level notebook. I can see many couch potatoes just grinning at the mere thought of controlling one’s media center without having to use the remote, just gestures.
One a more serious note, the potential for applications is immense, either in games and applications. Think PowerPoint presentations that can be controlled by the speaker without physical input and that can interact with the audience, so many possibilities.
Really exciting, congratulations.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:53
Remember my last post? Seems the bar just got raised
Microsoft just presented Project Natal at E3. A couple of video feeds:
http://www.neowin.net/news/gamers/09/06/01/microsoft-introduces-controller-free-gaming-project-natal
June 3rd, 2009 at 14:50
well, it does look good. It’s also good that we are going in a slightly different direction.