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Marco Rama - 2018

Yasmine Weiss, Paintings.

Outlandish, poignant paintings by Belgian artist Yasmine Weiss.

Soccer On Your Tabletop

Research from the University of Washington, Facebook and Google can reproduce a 3D representation of a football match from the footage from a single camera:

We present a system that transforms a monocular video of a soccer game into a moving 3D reconstruction, in which the players and field can be rendered interactively with a 3D viewer or through an Augmented Reality device.  At the heart of our paper is an approach to estimate the depth map of each player, using a CNN that is trained on 3D player data extracted from soccer video games.  We compare with state of the art body pose and depth estimation techniques, and show results on both synthetic ground truth benchmarks, and real YouTube soccer footage. 

The official project page can be found here

Also, the code for this project has been made available on Github and can be run via Unity ond Hololens. Developer Ash_Yin presents a short demo using the Hololens headset [source]

Project Aero

Adobe have announced tools to produce Augmented Reality content with their creative software packages. As many creatives use Adobe software professionally and are familiar with their interface, this is a potential game-changer:

lmmersive media is driving the next wave of creativity and storytelling. It will change the way we work, learn, and play, expanding digital experiences beyond the screen to the world around us. That’s why we’re introducing Project Aero, a powerful new augmented reality (AR) authoring tool and system that makes it easier for designers and developers to create immersive content and bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds.