Tecton Limited – a value-added partner in the real estate and construction cluster. Have placed an interesting video on YouTube of a building being virtually constructed on a desktop. The same thing could be carried out using basic Augmented Reality – see our ‘Desktop (Literally) Augmented Reality’ post for more info – nevertheless its interesting how construction firms are looking into such visualisation techniques:
Take a look at their website for more examples.
Tecton Limited – a value-added partner in the real estate and construction cluster. Have placed an interesting video on YouTube of a building being virtually constructed on a desktop. The same thing could be carried out using basic Augmented Reality – see our ‘Desktop (Literally) Augmented Reality’ post for more info – nevertheless its interesting how construction firms are looking into such visualisation techniques:
Take a look at their website for more examples.
Combining a multi-touch interface with embedded infra-red cameras for object tracking Microsoft’s Surface Table Computer looks like it will be a common sight in research labs before the years end.
Popular Mechanics produced a ‘hands on’ video of the surface computer and kindly provide a link so it can be embedded below:
We have seen computer tables come and go over the last few years in our various labs but this one seems genuinely useful – note the way it is used for mapping applications.
The table looks like reaching retail late 2007.
As we mentioned in our post ‘Google Street View – A Closer Look‘ the technology is subject to the cameras going out of alignment. This, combined with image flare, can create errors in the scene and a Flickr user by the name of Stallio has been grabbing screen shots to illustrate the point. See the Flickr slide show below for the images so far:
Take a look at the Google Street View Glitch set on Flickr for more info.