Tag: augmented reality glasses

GravitySketch tablet helps to simplify digital design.

The unique mobile device allows users to design and draw in 3D on a tablet equipped with an embedded Arduino chip, a pair of augmented reality glasses and an infrared stylus, allowing them to create their sketches in a digital format without having to transfer a design drawn on paper to a computer.

Users of the tablet can edit, rotate and expand what they create with the stylus while wearing the AR glasses.

Users of GravitySketch make a drawing with an infrared stylus on a gridded perspex pad. The chip and Unity software within the tablet track the stylus and switch the sketches into a three dimensional format. The image that results is sent to Laster AR glasses, which show the design as a 3D object. One or more users can then manipulate or alter the image.

GravitySketch first started in October 2013. It was invented by Pierre Paslier, Guillaume Couche, Oluwaseyi Sosanya, and Daniela Paredes Fuentes, four of London’s College of Art students. The students were inspired to create the digital pad after they surveyed several creators and discovered that for a great number of these individuals, a pencil and a pad of paper is often the simple tools that are used during the initial creative process. It is not until the creator reaches the point of attempting to convert their original vision into a final product that they use a computer.

It is the hope of the team behind the augmented reality tablet that they will be able to bring the two creative processes together, which would lower the barrier that exists between the initial vision and the practical outcome.

The augmented reality device is likely to benefit more than just designers.

It is very likely that 3D interfaces, like that GravitySketch will be found highly useful for various purposes. For instance, it could be utilized by surgeons, who could upload the image of a ligament or bone, and give the surgeons the ability to draw necessary surgical fixtures directly on the image. On the other hand, it could be used in industrial settings for collecting and utilizing data hands-free or even in augmented reality gaming, among other applications.

The company has already achieved successes with customers over smartphones, and now it is moving into glasses.

After having successfully accumulated a massive audience of smartphone users to use augmented reality apps in order to engage with products in the real world, Blippar has now released a platform designed for Google Glass.

The Blippar platform for Google Glass was created with developers in mind in mobile game creation.

This platform is meant to provide developers with a new way to create their own augmented reality mobile games. Blippar’s chief executive, Ambarisha Mitra, first revealed the Games for Glass platform at an AR trade show in Santa Clara, California, called the Augmented World Expo. The games would activate when looking at something in the real world while using Glass to be able to interact with it. The example that was given was in the form of a can of Pepsi.

The platform allows an ad on a real world product to provide an augmented reality game experience.

When the Glass was aimed at the soda can with a soccer ad that was Blippar enabled, an app activated and then the wearer could use his or her eyes to aim the soccer ball at the goal and then kick it. The idea is to use an ad created in the physical world to provide the device user with an interactive digital AR experience.

Blippar intends to release its Games for Glass software development kit (SDK) in just under a month and a half. Then, developers will be able to use it to create a larger number of games that will take advantage of the Google Glass experience and its unique ability to use virtual image overlays on the view of the real world.

For example, it could allow someone to add virtual paint to a real world object. Then, when another Glass wearer who uses the Blippar augmented reality app happens to see that object, they would also be able to spot the new color or design that was added by the original person. Mitra explained that through this technology “we can become the bridge from physical to digital.”