Holy smokes! I’m on TED

06/23

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So, twitter is aflutter with calls for my head for not properly citing what tech the TED demo was based on. Yes, it’s totally based on FLARToolKit & Papervision and yes, I realize that it should have been said on stage. I’ve tried hard to re-iterate the fact that the demo is based on FLARToolKit & Papervision in all subsequent mentions but it appears that I could have done a better job of it. What’s funny is that the very moment I got off stage my glaring omission was pointed out to me by fellow Palm Springs TEDster and AS developer extraordinaire Grant Skinner. The fear and frenzy that a TED talk countdown timer can evoke is mindblowing and the fact that I got my name right startles me. I’ve worked on a lot of opensource projects ranging from a poker engine to a robotic vacuum and always make sure that I give credit where it is due. Fundamentally I believe that the best software comes from sharing ones “wins” and allowing others to innovate through iteration. This has been the model that I’ve applied to my projects because there is no doubt that when it comes to software we all stand on the shoulders of giants. I just want to make sure that I’ve clarified an important omission.
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So it’s probably no surprise that I’m now on TED, because more than likely I’ve been telling you about it since going to TED @ PalmSprings. The funny thing is that I didn’t go there because of the jailbreak stuff I’d done. No, I got to demo onstage with a FLARtoolit demo that I whipped up.

Attending TED was on my life’s list of things to do and getting the opportunity to demo the FLARToolkit and Papervision based augmented reality demo really made me happy. To see how far FLARToolKit and Papervision has come one should only look at July 2009’s Popular Science magazine that features GE’s “digital hologram” right on the cover!

There is no doubt that the would will be changed by augmented reality and it’s my opinion that the real future is in the mobile implementation. Last week, folks from Georgia Tech demoed a really awesome zombie game running on an nvidia targa based reference design. That is what I think the future looks like and the best part is that we’re only at the start of it.

For the curious you can grab the Flex/Flash Builder project that I used onstage and create you’re own!
Download Source - http://spazout.com/assets/tedflartoolkit.zip

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