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Projecting Video On Curved Surfaces

Posted by timothy on from the angle-dependent dept.

Jochen Bedersdorfer writes "According to golem.de, a research project in the area of Augmented Reality created a technology to project videos onto arbitrary existing screen surfaces, like wallpapered walls or window curtains. ... Quite awesome. Now I can use this ugly corner in my living room effectively."

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  1. Working link (for now) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nonslashdotted link (in German, though)

  2. Re:curved surfaces? by hcdejong · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the parent *is* right. Consider the extreme case of projecting into a corner: the projection looks right when you view from the same area where the camera is/was, but try looking at the image from a significantly different angle (say, a right angle to one of the walls). The picture will be severely distorted then.

  3. This sort of technology was shown last year.... by N+Monkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... at Siggraph 2003.

    There was one demonstration showing projection onto the inside of a translucent sphere, while in the paper "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and self-configuring projectors" Raskar et al showed a system that could also combine the output of several projectors. It was quite impressive.