Yes, we made it! Last Thursday we completed our assigment by presenting our research project to the head of the 'Interactive Media Systems Group'. Right from the beginning he was pretty confident about our work. Indeed we were all sightly nervous that day but I really have to say that the whole presentation has been performed in a very comfortable way. It has been more of a cooperative discussion than an exam. I really liked it.
Well, it has been the last part missing on my way to the graduation. By now I can bring in all of my certifications to finish my bachelor degree.
What else can I say? I'm really really really really very happy right now! :-)
Best Regards, Max
Monday, October 22, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
1st time VR...
Good news! Today I finished the first assignment of the 'Virtual and Augmented Reality' lecture. It has been some introductive work to get basic experiences of what is virtual and/or augmented reality and how it can be done.
We had to configure all the software one needs to perform light testing sessions at home. Therefore I had to fight against some badass Visual C++ difficulties and to print out calibration and marker sheets for my webcam. Afterwards I needed to configure the 'Studierstube' software which does all of the image tracking work. It is a common project of both Universities of Technology of Graz and Vienna. Finally I simply had to calibrate my webcam. You don't want to know what this means... ;-)
To prove that it has been me who did all the work I had to take a screenshot of myself together with one virtual object and my matriculation number.
So here's what I got out of it. Note that the blue cube on the right is indeed a virtually created object. This means it is not actually there. It is projected by the 'Studierstube' software and follows the movement of the marker sheet in a completely real way. As well the correct illumination of the cube is computed by the software:
It's really not too difficult yet and as you can see it makes a lot of fun. I really love this work and perhaps this is kind of a thing I want to do for a living in the future. :-)
Yours, Max
We had to configure all the software one needs to perform light testing sessions at home. Therefore I had to fight against some badass Visual C++ difficulties and to print out calibration and marker sheets for my webcam. Afterwards I needed to configure the 'Studierstube' software which does all of the image tracking work. It is a common project of both Universities of Technology of Graz and Vienna. Finally I simply had to calibrate my webcam. You don't want to know what this means... ;-)
To prove that it has been me who did all the work I had to take a screenshot of myself together with one virtual object and my matriculation number.
So here's what I got out of it. Note that the blue cube on the right is indeed a virtually created object. This means it is not actually there. It is projected by the 'Studierstube' software and follows the movement of the marker sheet in a completely real way. As well the correct illumination of the cube is computed by the software:
It's really not too difficult yet and as you can see it makes a lot of fun. I really love this work and perhaps this is kind of a thing I want to do for a living in the future. :-)
Yours, Max
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Terminator 2000 and seven?
Or maybe 2000 and eight?!
As you can see there is still no BSc in front of my name. Apparently we did not finish our work yet. Well, the programming and testing phases are now over and the program itself should be ready for shipping. Unfortunately we still have some documentation work to do. In fact it has been some serious research work and so of course we have to think about our final conclusions. But the really good news is this will finally be the very last thing we have to to. :-)
In the meantime the saga continues! A new term has begun offering loads of different perspectives. Since the introduction courses have finally been eliminated we are now ready to contemplate what really is media informatics. Here are some of the courses I take this term:
As you can see there is still no BSc in front of my name. Apparently we did not finish our work yet. Well, the programming and testing phases are now over and the program itself should be ready for shipping. Unfortunately we still have some documentation work to do. In fact it has been some serious research work and so of course we have to think about our final conclusions. But the really good news is this will finally be the very last thing we have to to. :-)
In the meantime the saga continues! A new term has begun offering loads of different perspectives. Since the introduction courses have finally been eliminated we are now ready to contemplate what really is media informatics. Here are some of the courses I take this term:
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
-- Computer Graphics 2
--- Multimedia Communication
-- Introduction to Pattern Recognition
- Visualization of Information
Inherently their names are beautiful, right? :-)
See you! Max
-- Computer Graphics 2
--- Multimedia Communication
-- Introduction to Pattern Recognition
- Visualization of Information
Inherently their names are beautiful, right? :-)
See you! Max
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