AR experiment

I’ve been playing with augmented reality in Flash, aided by Saqoosha’s excellent FLARToolkit and Papervision 3D. Here at Stink Digital we decided to develop these experiments to do something fun for an ad in Contagious Magazine.

At first we planned to make a virtual Cannes Lion, along with some fireworks to fit in with the advertising festival which coincides with the issue. After having some problems getting the 3D model to work how we wanted and, moreover, deciding this idea was perhaps a bit too gimmicky I started playing with showing trending Tweets as 3D text. This worked quite well, but we then took it a step further to pull a live feed of all kinds of trending topics from various sources, including Flickr images. The result was a ‘What the internet is thinking’ app where every time you show the marker you get a new ‘thought’.

See it here:
http://www.stinkdigital.tv/makeitreal