Augmented Reality Surprise Cake

No party without a surprise cake!

If you have no time or skills to bake a birthday cake or if you can’t personally meet your friends to give them attention – no panic! Here is an innovative solution for your problem.

Turn on your webcam, print the pdf from the link below and show it to the webcam.

THAT ’S ALL ! Check out the preview and enjoy (webcam required).

If you have problems with the preview than please try this link: http://www.cid.co.at/apps/FLAR_Cake/preview

open and print this pdf: marker.pdf

This is the very first application on ActiveDen which is based on the Augmented Reality Technology. You can use the application without flash or flex or any coding. The included XML -file gives you control for all necessary properties. You can change the number of the candles from 0 to 100 and use your own image for the label on the top of the cake. The application is based on ActionScript 3 and contains a Flex-3 and Flash-CS4 version with fullscreen option

See the full documentation: FLAR _Cake.pdf

What is Augmented Reality?

Augmented reality is a realtime motion tracking technology merged with 3d simulation. It’s a combination of real video environment and virtual 3d environment.

Here you find some examples about augmented reality: http://gigantico.squarespace.com

The basic tool to develop it in flash is the Flash Augmented Reality Tool kit (FLAR-ToolKit ). The FLAR -ToolKit is under the GPL license and can download free at this link: http://www.libspark.org/wiki/saqoosha/FLARToolKit/en

For more information about the FLAR -ToolKit read this link: http://www.insideria.com

Enjoy and have fun with the Augmented Reality Surprise Cake!

cid

XML Preset Example:

<preset
    candleNumber="20" 
    labelFile="imageLabel.png" 
    labelSize="120" 
    mirrorCamera="false" 
    mirrorLabel="false" 
    cameraSmoothing="true" 
/>