John Mayer did a video for the song Heartbreak Warfare using something called augmented reality. I tried it out last night and it was cool. I am one of the very few people in the country without a printer at home, so I drew the heart using a pen and a black Sharpie. It worked though on my 2nd attempt, because the first time I drew the heart too big. My 2nd attempt was about 2″x2″. If you have a printer, you may want to skip this step. So if you have a webcam, check it out. The song is great too. I really like the smoothness of it.
If you aren’t able to work it, I found a video on youtube someone made with the video and it should give you an idea of how the AR works. The fingers and stuff on the side, that’s the person’s fingers. When you activate your webcam, it’s kind of like a window, so when you match up the heart on the paper to the heart on the screen, the video starts up. The heart on the paper acts as an anchor for the animation. So when you move the heart, the animation moves, when you twist it, the animation twists. Got all that? It’ll makes sense once you see it in action.
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