Sekai Camera
Denou Coil via the iPhone. Through watching the video below, you will see the iPhone being used to view the real world. The application will then pick up Air Tags depending on where the iPhone camera is looking. A click on a tag will then reveal information.
Applications include examples like giving out discounts at a restaurant, displaying information about your immediate surroundings, maps and what have you. Maybe a load of oppai jumping at you when in Akiba?
Details are still a bit fuzzy bit will try to bring the inventors along to the next CGM Night to get more info. Must get round to watching Denou Coil too.
More info at the following sites:-
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/213/213974/
http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0902/19/news089.html
http://japan.cnet.com/blog/analysis/2009/02/21/entry_27020544/
Denou Coil OP below.
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WOH! That is awesome. Imagine if little tiny data chips were put on every sign door and any moving object and you just moved the I-pod around like a Tricorder on Startrek and it gave you all info about it in your own language no matter what country you were in!
Why bother with chips? We have GPS for these purpose. For wxample I but somekindof gps device and carry it with me. Whenever I need to know something I just push the button and the data comes right through the wireless internet connection to somekindof display. Thats how it works in this anime, and those glasses are allinone device. Still, it'll take around 5 more years for this kind of technology to be mass-used.
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
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Consumer GPS isn't quite that precise, at least not what we have now. And it doesn't update quickly enough to keep up with you swinging the phone around while standing on the spot.
Heck, I don't even know if GPS can tell which direction you're pointing in if you're standing still. Not my area of expertise, but I don't think it can.
Jobless bum at the moment
http://www.drazenj.com
most gps units are equiped with a compass or a digital compass and do know which way you are turned. But GPS is ineffective in buildings due to limited to no signal
Student, Bioresearch Assistant, WAVE VP Communications
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Those only apply to the GPS that are installed in cars (which tells you the direction that you are facing). Consumer GPS generally update as you move, tell you when to turn and stuff.
Jobless bum at the moment
http://www.drazenj.com
I have a garmin gps model for hiking when I stand still it can still point my direction ;p
Student
http://theotakukid.com/
Rusting I can see where you are going with this because chips are getting cheaper and cheaper everyday so in the future our city might be cover by tiny chip well hidden by the public eye so we can use the application above. GPS won't be a good idea since it still have problem exactly pin point the actual location.
Family IT guy ...yes, NEET.
Wow. I wonder if it works for figures? "Eh? whats this figure?" *beeep* Displays price, manufacturer, year released, etc. Awesome.
Supreme Commander of NERV Co.
Lets hope for the future ^^
Software Developer
http://www.otakutimes.com
Looks cool. There is also quite a few augmented reality apps being developed for android phones: http://www.vimeo.com/843168 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EA8xlicmT8
Personally I'm looking forward to the day when proper overlay glasses (like those featured in Dennou Coil) become ubiquitous. Would like to buy a pair of these: http://www.realwire.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=10934, however I imagine they are still quite expensive.
student
http://zephi-san.deviantart.com/
ahh, I always wanted to learn more about augmented reality stuff. Downloaded and played around with it before on my webcam... But never got around to creating my own model lol.
And Dennou Coil was what got me interested in it.
Ah now after seeing that video I want an iPhone even more to play around with AR.
Gundam Pilot (in training)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Thebarrett
that's really cool o_o... info on real life lol point it at a girl you like get info
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The creative kind
http://www.otakuphone.com
Lol... nice one :D
former Emperor of Britannia
http://reflectiarx.wordpress.com/
Really cool! More improvements on life with Tech stuff is always the best.
Student
Ive seen concepts like this on Gizmodo. Would be useful.
Jobless bum at the moment
http://www.drazenj.com
old technology is old, it's still based on AR and QR coding. I will post later today on my site what i can do with my cam and simple AR codes that can be as big as a house and as small as a button
Dance Trooper: DCX-001 O.D.E. (Order of the Dancing Empire)
http://dannychoo.com.my
Denou Coil is one of the EPIC anime, highly recommended!
FREETER
Yeah, Dennou Coil was fabulous.
It was one of those stories like 'Haibane Renmei' that slipped by the masses it seems, but in hindsight was one of the better(like, top 5 level) shows I've watched in the last like.. 6 years.
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
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Awesome....
And Denno Coil was equally, if not more awesome. I loved it. Definate DVD purchase... if it ever gets over to the west....
大学生
Wow thats really cool. I need to finally finish Denou Coil it was really good.
Art/Media
http://sgallen.wordpress.com/
oh, sounds interesting.
*Points iPhone at Figma's*
*Displays various Cosplayers*
"um...Not what I was hoping to get."
*Points iPhone at Candy Girl*
*Displays Danny's Mirai Dollfie*
o_o;
Professional Student
Dennou Coil is a really nice series! I find it very different from other animes.
Pedobear approved
That actually looks pretty awesome. I don't suppose there's something similar out there for Blackberry owners? Or is it iPhone exclusive?
Student, Performer
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Maybe the Robocop's glasses are out soon.
Student
Could potentially be very useful.
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
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Dennou Coil is somewhere in the 20+ list of animes I have to watch... maybe it'll take a while, but I'll watch it one of these days...
About the iPhone thing, I've seen this in other phones, though only as prototypes.
Uses Augmented Reality, image recognition and tags techniques.
I think we still need faster processors to accomplish something like that, but it's the future.
Very interesting way to retrieve data from a certain point of interest... you only have to point the camera phone at it.
Jobless bum at the moment
http://www.drazenj.com
Like I said, I would post my project tonight so here is a link to it:
http://www.drazenj.com/2009/02/augmented-reality/
If you have IE something is causing an error on my site and I have no idea what so here is a link bear with me and watch it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ8UEKxbgNM&eurl=http://www.drazenj.com/2009/02/augmented-reality/
Also guys stay tuned for more of my projects like a part 4 of my Daft Helm and more on AR
Art/Media
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oh! Awesome stuff!
How long did it take you to code that?
Seems very bery hard. ^^;
Jobless bum at the moment
http://www.drazenj.com
well the base AR code was done I just upgraded the code to accept more and show more than just primitive objects (like spheres and cubes).
In the end it took a good hour or 2 but the hard part comes now, I want to make a little game where you can put multiple codes and it creates the players. You can move them and shoot at each other or something.
Or a funny hentai game one player is a giant octopus and the other a cute loli >:)
http://pseudospace.blogspot.com/
An AR hentai game would be cool hehe. But watch out for the polygon count of your 3D models. FLARToolKit can be quite CPU intensive.
Jobless bum at the moment
http://www.drazenj.com
Yeah I noticed but simple low poly models can be used in multitude plus preloading helps a great deal in the CPU handling
College Freshmen
I saw a few episodes of Dennou Coil before dropping it. It wasn't bad, but it didn't hold my interest since that wasn't my type of anime when I was younger.
IT-Architect, Virtualization and Storage lover, WebDesign and coding
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Dennou Coil was very neat... i still want those glasses... teeheee
I hope they release this iPhone app sometime soon, i would love to feed it with german data from the japanese area in Düsseldorf! ;)
Comic Book Creator and Artist
http://cedricnocon.com
Very cool, Danny. Thanks for sharing!
初音ミク命
Pretty neat stuff.
I should probably get a new cellphone eventually.
Student
Cool tech, btw Dennou Coil is one hell of an anime it is just beautiful don't miss it.
???Confused???
Looks cool, but looks like there's still a lot of work to be done...anime looks interesting, didn't hear about it before...
大学生
http://justaskeikaku.net23.net
Looks rather confusing actually...
.NET/Web Developer
http://scrumptious.animeblogger.net
saw this being demoed last year at techcrunch50. t'was amazing!!! i hope this tech carries over to other phones/cameras as well.
Tech Support Officer - Network Security Engineer
http://burugureibi.blogspot.com/
isn't this just augmeted reality tech?...
you can like dl the ARToolkit and muck around with that - that said, i should really replace my webcam
The world looks more like Minority Report all the time.
University Student
Very interesting. May have to decide to finally get one.
dannychoo.com の読者
dennou coil rocks.
really love its idea of AR.
wont be suprised that one day there will be technologies based on dennou coil
Pseudo-Graphic Designer, 触手 wrangler, H-Man
http://lightningsabre.blogspot.com/
Wow nice concept. Reminds me of Futurama where they mentioned the word "Fry" and they accidentally ordered French Fries amongst finding Fry's relatives. ^^
I really need to watch Denno Coil. I wanted to when it came out, but I didn't get around to it >_<