Projection mapping on a moving surface

This research aims at overcoming this limitation and realizes dynamic projection mapping in which dynamically-changing real-world and virtual visual information are completely merged in the level of human visual perception. This high-speed dynamic projection mapping requires a high-speed projector enabling high-frame-rate and low-latency projection. In order to meet this demand, we have developed a high-speed projector “DynaFlash” that can project 8-bit images up to 1,000fps with 3ms delay.In particular, as a challenging target for the dynamic projection mapping, we focus on a non-rigid surface. Sensing of non-rigid surface deformation is difficult to be achieved at high speed because it has high degrees-of-freedom and involves self-occlusions as well as external occlusions. Our newly proposed method overcomes this limitation. Our method can obtain the deformation robustly at 1,000 fps by using an originally proposed marker “Deformable Dot Cluster Marker”, even when the target causes large deformation and occlusions.

Source: Vision Architecture: High Speed Image Processing

nodegoat – web based visualisation environment

nodegoat is a web-based data management, network analysis & visualisation environment.Using nodegoat, you can create and manage any number of datasets by use of a graphic user interface. Your custom data model autoconfigures the backbone of notegoat’s core functionalities.Within nodegoat you are able to instantly analyse and visualise datasets. nodegoat allows you to enrich data with relational, geographical and temporal attributes. Therefore, the modes of analysis are inherently diachronic and ready-to-use for interactive maps and extensive trailblazing.

Source: nodegoat

PrintScreen: print touch screens on anything, including paper

PrintScreen is an enabling technology for digital fabrication of customized flexible displays using thin-film electroluminescence (TFEL). It enables inexpensive and rapid fabrication of highly customized displays in low volume, in a simple lab environment, print shop or even at home. We show how to print ultra-thin (120 um) segmented and passive matrix displays in greyscale or multi-color on a variety of deformable and rigid substrate materials

via PrintScreen: Digital Fabrication of Thin-Film Displays | Embodied Interaction.

Aero Glass – AR for pilots using Epson Moverio glasses

Using the Epson Moverio glasses, Augmented reality projects the following features onto the lenses in 3D.

Airports
Navigation Aids
ADS-B traffic
Flight Plan route & waypoints
Airways
Geographic points of interest (cities, villages, visual navigation points)

Soon followed by:

Airspaces
Terrain elevation
Procedures
ILS approach cones
FLARM traffic (for glider)
Weather
Dynamic Data (NOTAM, TFRs)
Ground Phase stuff other than runways (taxiways, gates etc)
3D Terrain Avoidance
Obstacles

They plan to sell them for around $700,- which is very cheap for a fighter pilot helmet / Heads up display / HUD!

Aero Glass.

Sharp Develops Free-Form Display, Enables Vastly Greater Design Freedom for Displays

Sharp announces the development of the Free-Form Display, a device that can be shaped to meet a wide range of user needs thanks to the incorporation of IGZO technology and proprietary circuit design methods. Conventional displays are rectangular because they require a minimal width for the bezel in order to accommodate the drive circuit, called the gate driver, around the perimeter of the screen’s display area. With the Free-Form Display, the gate driver’s function is dispersed throughout the pixels on the display area. This allows the bezel to be shrunk considerably, and it gives the freedom to design the LCD to match whatever shape the display area of the screen needs to be.

via Sharp Develops Free-Form Display, Enables Vastly Greater Design Freedom for Displays | Press Releases | Sharp Global.

Flexibile, high definition CAAC-OS displays from SEL curve around bezels

As one way to utilize this flexibility, SEL have produced side-roll and top-roll OLED displays, with the display curving over the edge where a bezel would usually be.The prototypes on show were a 3.4-inch 960×540 pixel display with a resolution of 326 ppi, and a 5.4-inch 960×1280 pixel display with a 302 ppi resolution. They still provide the high color reproduction characteristic of OLED displays.

http://www.diginfo.tv/v/13-0084-d-en.php

This means that software can position buttons anywhere they like around the side of your mobile or tablet. The video in the link is very worth watching.

Researchers find a way to make glass that’s anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare

Through a process involving thin layers of material deposited on a surface and then selectively etched away, the MIT team produced a surface covered with tiny cones, each five times taller than their width. This pattern prevents reflections, while at the same time repelling water from the surface

via Researchers find a way to make glass that's anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare.

Edge blending software

Edge Blending software allows you to connect multiple projectors so that they overlap and then set them up so that the output of each beamer is aligned and the brightness of the overlapping area is corrected so that the image looks seamless.

Quite a few of these packages only allow the output to be corrected in an openGL / DirectX environment.

Below is an overview of Edge Blenders that also allow the whole windows desktop to be projected over all the beamers.

Some of these can auto set up using a webcam.

Fly Elise NG Immersive Desktop costs EUR 69,- for non-commercial use, and EUR 150,- for commercial use.
These are guys in Eindhoven who built the software to power their garage built full motion flight simulator.

Vioso presenter Multi

Costs EUR 229,- / EUR 69,-

Warp Desktop

Allows 10 monitors per PC for GBP 330,-

Scalable Desktop

For up to 6 desktops.

Torsionsoft Torsionblend

Also allows projection mapping.

2 channels for CAD $799,-

Epson ships Moverio BT-100 Android see-through glasses – SlashGear

Epson America has announced it is now shipping the world’s first Android-based see-through wearable display called the Moverio BT-100. These things look like glasses a high-tech Ray Charles might wear. The glasses use micro projection technology and a track pad that is Android-based to allow the wearer to enjoy video and other digital content on a virtual 80-inch perceived screen

via Epson ships Moverio BT-100 Android see-through glasses – SlashGear.

Display Changer

Display Changer changes the display resolution, runs a program, then restores the original settings. It can also change the resolution permanently and rearrange the monitors in a multiple-monitor setup. This is useful for games and home theater computers. I originally wrote this application for my children because they had programs that required 640×480 with 256 colors or 800×600 with 32-bit color or some other combination. I didn’t expect my (then) 4-year-old to be able to change Windows display settings, so I wrote this program to do it automatically.

Now, it does much more.

Display Changer changes your desktop width, height, color depth, and refresh rate (frequency) temporarily or permanently (via command line switches). Display Changer can run another application in a specific display resolution and return to the previous resolution when the application finishes. Command line switches let you alter only certain settings and choose the best refresh rate (or a specific one).

Display Changer « 12noon.