There is a new technology preview at Autodesk Labs, Augmented Reality for Showcase. Augmented reality makes it possible to overlay information (graphics, text, video, sound) on to a live video feed of the real-world in real-time. Based on Autodesk Showcase, which is an application that produces photorealistic high quality interactive 3D real-time rendering of design models, the Augmented Reality plug-in makes it possible to visualize models in the real-world as viewed through your web or video camera.
The process to overlay a design model on the real world as seen through your video camera is pretty simple. You prepare your model in Showcase and then associate a supplied marker (jpg file) with your virtual object. You print the marker and place it in the real world and point your web camera at the printed marker. Then Showcase replaces the marker in your video recording with the model you’ve created in Showcase. The technology preview will be available until October 31, 2012. There is a video on Youtube that gives you an introduction to the augmented reality preview.
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