Augmented reality helicopter
Augmented reality is slowly becoming perhaps somewhat of a bevel effect/lensflare among the technology enthusiasts, but actually it’s only beginning to creep into consciousness of the “marketing people” (as I call them) so I though it’s high time I joined the ranks and pop my AR cherry. : - )
This demo is based on excellent ar tutorial by Lee Brimelow, you should definitely check it out if you want to play with AR.
One thing I discovered, the marker pickup up by FLARE toolkit can be quite tricky at times and it really helps if you do apply a threshold filter to an input bitmap data.
I added basic flying controls to helicopter and a helipad plane to ground it on the surface..
Demo was build with Adobe Flash Builder demo, but the most important class extends UIComponent, so should be easily transferable to Flex 3.
You can view the demo here and right click to view the source.
If you don’t have a web cam watch screencast here.
Posted in AS3, Augmented Reality, Flex 4, papervision
July 13th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Hi Slavomir,
Is there a way to contact you?
Could you drop me an e-mail. I would like to talk with you about writing for us an article on Flash/AR.
I can pay you if you want.
Best Regards,
Carlos
July 14th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Hi Carlos
Sure , you can drop me email at slavomir@durej.com and specify what you have in mind.
Cheers
Slav
July 20th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Loving your work Slav.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:04 am
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November 4th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Ah! I did one with an Airplane and a landing strip, about 5 months ago.
It was fun to fly it around the room
July 13th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Hi tryed to use the code in flashbuilder to see how it works and i get two errors
first is:
could not resolve to a component implementation
and the second is that the ChopperDemo.swf file could not be found.
Can you help?
Thanks
July 13th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
sentence above should have read
“could not resolve to a component implementation”
July 13th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
The component is the mx:UIComponent
July 13th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Glynn, this was build using quite early versions of Flex 4, so try to use an older version of SDK.. Otherwise , you should be able to import a Flex project fine. Not sure what the problem could be