Augmented Reality and the base of the original ARToolkit has taken the flash world by storm with the FLARToolkit and really the speed updates of the AVM2 in Flash9 and Flash10 to be able to pull off the OpenCV calculations needed on the bitmap data from each frame of a camera. It has been around quite some time but now web based engines such as Flash and now Processing can take advantage of this awesome technology.
Den Ivanov did some cool experiments with this kit but adding the capability to do multiple markers. In his videos the processing runtime seems to process the render pretty quickly. It seems that most Flash AR is around like 5-10 frames per second for the detection.
Augmented reality is a very cool technology. It is the star wars holograms that we always want, it is playing a game that maps out the physical world mixed with virtual assets, it is straight up cool.
The FLARToolKit is doing some of this cool in Flash. This little toolkit is pretty sweet mapping points and sets of points to patterns, colors or other visual queues that technology can latch onto. Combine this with a webcam and you have some pretty cool AR.
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