During our time in London I had some time to check out UK TV and show a children's show called BAMZOOKi that was pretty cool. Kids design virtual 'bugs' to use in virtual competitions similar to Robot Wars except all intangible. Then the competitions are shown on Saturday morning TV. Not sure the technology for display, perphaps blue screen?
Check it out BAMZOOKi and you can download the design and simulator kit.
Posted by Jeremy Showalter at July 29, 2006 01:38 PMNot quite blue screen, but a system developed by the BBC called 'Free-D'. It enables the kids to see their Zooks on that table in front of them (as a 2D projection) whilst the cameras (and their operators) are viewing a real-time composite of the action fed to them via PCs rendering the scene from that camera's relative position in the studio. You can find out more t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMZOOKi and there's a nice promo video on Youtube too (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nau11dK4Eds&search=augmented%20reality).
Cheers
Ian (at Gameware)
Wow, cool. Thanks for the info and the links. I'll check it out.
Posted by: Jeremy Showalter at August 16, 2006 09:09 PMPS Thanks for the comment. I'm honored you'd take the time to post. Great job with Bamzooki and good luck. Hopefully we'll see it over here soon!
Posted by: Jeremy Showalter at August 16, 2006 09:11 PMIf you want to know a little more about BAMZOOKi then you could do worse than take a look at some of the zooks (model creatures) created by one of the BAMZOOKi Series III teams at http://www.bamzooki.org.uk
There is also quite an active forum at http://www.bamzooki.org.uk/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl
Hope that helps
CW
Posted by: Canary Woolf at August 27, 2006 01:51 AM