Augmented Reality from BBC Radio 1: "Band In Your Hand" May 11 2008

It’s brilliant to see the “Band in Your Hand” Augmented Reality feature built for Radio 1’s Big Weekend. There’s even a video showing Scott Mills trying it out!

Read more about it on the Radio Labs blog.

While talking about Augmented Reality, I was browsing through the recent O’Reilly “Augmented Reality - a practical guide” by Stephen Cawood and Mark Fiala. It looks like a great introduction to the subject, describing some of the new augmented reality frameworks that have improve on the trusty old ARToolKit. However, I felt that the demo application that the book presents could have explored the tangible augmented reality side of things more.

Leaving Southampton... September 9 2007

After nearly 11 years at Southampton University, I am finally leaving and heading off to London.

It’s been quite a ride: starting as an undergraduate, doing my PhD, and then four great years as a research associate/fellow at both IAM and LSL.

Tomorrow I start a new adventure, as a Software Engineer at Audio & Music Interactive at the BBC…

Every day should be Hack Day! June 19 2007

Back from Hack Day London - it was absolutely incredible! I had really great fun, did a lot of hacking/coding all night long!

I worked with Jon Hare, and we went for the augmented reality web service, which was pretty crazy. We made the ARToolKit, which you can see in the video below, into a web service!

Although it’s a little rough around the edges still, you can play with our hack online at: http://multimedia.ecs.soton.ac.uk/artheworld

I’ve also posted the slides from our 90 seconds presentation on Slideshare: