Was Gonna say the same thing curse you for beating me to it.
ARToolkit is available for linux, mac, windows, solaris etc. it's fairly straight forward to use and the mailing list are quite good at helping folk iron out problems.
I think doing something like magic book is more of a feat of designing the interface and the 3d models than a feat of the character recognition, although the work on magic book is a few years old, cant remember how old and cant be bothered checking it out.
basicly ARToolkit makes fiddling about with this kinda thing real easy, there is even a version of ARQuake out there that uses it along with other technologies to allow people to play quake in the real world. google for it, i cant be bothered, apathy strikes.
i think there was an AR rts game in the works by some reserach department.
I dont even want to comment on how many camel jokes i read in that list of posts, I'm not offended but to be quite frank you are playing up to a stereotype of ignorance.
Saudi geeks are much like any other geeks, religion is not a factor in being a geek, culture is not a factor in being a geek, just a love of what you do and in the case of computer geeks it's computers.
Having lived in saudi for the first 18 years of my life before going away to university I'd say that saudi geeks are the same as they are anywhere. if anythign the "restrictive" society leads more people to be introversive and there are more people that spend far too much time in front of computer screens, there are also a surprising number of women that go on to do degrees in computing, which one can assume is and extension of their geekiness.
I've seen geeks around the world and they are the same, we dont ride camels to work, or flying carpets, we don't have hot and cold running oil.
In the city I live in there are entire shopping malls dedicated to selling computer parts, every where you go you are hassled by people who are trying to sell you pirated software. computers are an enourtmous thing here, because there is nothing else to do. some people use their computers to play games, some people use them to mess around with photos, some use them to hack about with code, some just spend hours surfing the net and talking to people that they normally wouldn't be able to talk to in person due to the restrictions of the society (mainly the opposite sex, regardless of which sex they are, there is little intermingling for most people but some are more liberated.)
anyway it's nice to see that everyone is so openminded and such and that being at the frontiers of counter culture you aren't swayed by stereo types...
The only people profiting from the RIAA Shenanigans seems to be software companies that are designing anit copyright infringement technologies.
I only download stuff I would have never bought in the first place, or stuff I Can't buy because it hasn't had a UK release. Not allowingme to download these files doesn't make me buy the CD's or DVD's I just find something else to do.
It strikes me that the earth station Boss or PR guy may not be using his real name as "Ras Kabir" which is the name in the press release is arabic for "Big head". this may just be a discrepancy in the was his arabic name has been phoneticly translated to roman characters though...
I seem to remember Xerox were working on a software system called portholes, you can probably find papers a plenty about it online.
but then you'd have to either contact them to use it or develop your own based on it. They lloked at alot of the issues raised by this type of software like privacy and the like and why it works, it was trans-atlantic too.
the only reason I know about this is because of a HCI module I did at university last year.
Am I the only one who has noticed the j at the end of the 802.11 in the japaneses ZDnet article? it may well have been a browser glitch but it does make sense since 802.11j is a protocol designed to allow certain stuff to be done in the authorised radio band in Japan, the IGN articel seems to have knocked off the j but it the wifi has to operate to a standard and given that sony is a japanese company 802.11j seems reasonable.
more info on 802.11 whatever can be found at:
This is mildly annoying as handhelds have normally not suffered from regionisation due to them being used by travelers, and to have the networking protocol regionise them would be a bitch. either that or the whole world would have to on a whim switch to 802.11j from 802.11b (or a or g or whatever) which might no work in some countries where the frequency range it works in (4.9 to 5GHz) is restricted.
curses! more info on 802.11 whatever can be found here.
-- It's all fun and games till somone looses an eye, then it's fun and games without depth perception.
Am I thonly one to notice that the wifi it uses sems to Be 802.11j?
This may be an error in my browser rendering the page, but the 802.11 on the ZDNet has a j next to it, and given that there is an 802.11J standard (or at least there are allusions to one which was brought up to address 4.9 to 5Ghz operationof 802.11 in Japan) and givent aht sony are a japanese company, this could be annoying as one good thing about handhelds is due them being used by travelers they have been exempt from region coding but since 802.11J is a Japanese standard then...
Curses!
-- It's all fun and games til somone looses an eye, then it's fun and games without depth perception.
I bought the p800 two weeks ago and I think I may be the only person that thinks it is an absolutely terrible phone... I moved from a Nokia 9210i Communicator another Symbian enabled phone.
At first i looked at the phones specifications and thought that it was a geeks wet dream, but having owned the phone, I am really regretting spending the amount of money I did.
So what wrong with it?
The stylus is made as if for a childs hand and is far too small for an adult to use, I dont have overly large hands and after a few minutes of using it I start to feel the strain.
When the phone is opne there is no way to see what time it is, without clicking on a tiny little onscreen button that is so close to it's neighbors that you cant accurately touch it without using the stylus, which means that you ahve to retrive the stylus from the side of the devive which is time consuming if you want to quickly see wht time it is.
Jot is absolutely terrible especially when compared to Graphitti (I know the whole palm getting sued for graphitti by xerox but they could still have licensed it), when ever you want to quickly type an l and then a space jot recognises it as a t!
There are no readilly available buttons when the phone is open and the Jog wheel on the side which although having 5 degrees of motion (you can push it five ways) is still awkward to use when you want to make rapid motions on it, which means that it is useless for gameplaying.
The camera has no cover which means that it gets dirty when it is in your pocket, and that leads to the pictures being fuzzy, also the camera randomly decided it was goignot show me the sony erricson logo instead of what it was capturing which I presume was because it was running out of memory but, i cant verify this as the phone showed no indication that this was the case.
When the phone is open and you are using is as a regular phone it is far to easy to press the end call "Button" on the touch screen with your cheek. I have ended some very important calls like this by accident.
The battery life seems to really vary some times when I am heavily using the phone it will last for three to four days however one day I fully charged it and it did not last 24 hours and I wads not using it at all.
The Synch software requires you to have third party software (Outlook or Lotus) I remember when manufacturors gave you software to backup your phone/pda, this happens to be a flaw with the 9210i as well but my old 9110 and my palm both came with software that allowed synching straight out the box no need to pay the Microsoft tax.
The vibrating function (althogh it is a boon to have one after the 9210i) is absolutely abysmal, i have missed a large amount of calls due to not noticing it, I am not numb ont he leg or anything my old 6210 used to notify me fine when it was on silent but with the p800 unless it is on the desk I am workignon the vibartion is unnoticeable (even then all you notice is the sound of the vibration).
I have set several alarms on my p800 and I have yet to hear one of them, I have not experimented setting an alarm and waiting for it but given that I used to use the alarm on my communicator to wake myslef up (and I am a heavy sleeper I was in Riyadh when Saddam decided he was going to bombard it with scud missiles, and I slept throughthe ordeal), I at least expect the phone to have a decent alarm.
The cradle seems to not want to release the charger cable which id mildly annoying as I cant cahrge my phoen in my room so I can hear it ring when I am asleep I have to charge in my computer room where it is connected to my laptop.
In general I think this phone is the worst phone I have ever owned(its my fifth or sixth) and I would not reccomed anyone to partake in the experience of it. There are are a slew of other problems I have had with this phone, like it defaulting to text and deletign it when you touch the screen in the internet config menues, the amount of times i have erased my messagin
Okay so this is a slightly harder fix but cant you just compt the cd using an optical out from a cd player the quality would be the same, if not similar okay it might take a wee bit longer but hey the price you pay for theft.
Slashdot Mirror
Was Gonna say the same thing curse you for beating me to it.
ARToolkit is available for linux, mac, windows, solaris etc. it's fairly straight forward to use and the mailing list are quite good at helping folk iron out problems.
I think doing something like magic book is more of a feat of designing the interface and the 3d models than a feat of the character recognition, although the work on magic book is a few years old, cant remember how old and cant be bothered checking it out.
basicly ARToolkit makes fiddling about with this kinda thing real easy, there is even a version of ARQuake out there that uses it along with other technologies to allow people to play quake in the real world. google for it, i cant be bothered, apathy strikes.
i think there was an AR rts game in the works by some reserach department.
anyway this is all really old news.
any number of cartoons and as mentioned earlier are prior art for this.
I dont even want to comment on how many camel jokes i read in that list of posts, I'm not offended but to be quite frank you are playing up to a stereotype of ignorance.
Saudi geeks are much like any other geeks, religion is not a factor in being a geek, culture is not a factor in being a geek, just a love of what you do and in the case of computer geeks it's computers.
Having lived in saudi for the first 18 years of my life before going away to university I'd say that saudi geeks are the same as they are anywhere. if anythign the "restrictive" society leads more people to be introversive and there are more people that spend far too much time in front of computer screens, there are also a surprising number of women that go on to do degrees in computing, which one can assume is and extension of their geekiness.
I've seen geeks around the world and they are the same, we dont ride camels to work, or flying carpets, we don't have hot and cold running oil.
In the city I live in there are entire shopping malls dedicated to selling computer parts, every where you go you are hassled by people who are trying to sell you pirated software. computers are an enourtmous thing here, because there is nothing else to do. some people use their computers to play games, some people use them to mess around with photos, some use them to hack about with code, some just spend hours surfing the net and talking to people that they normally wouldn't be able to talk to in person due to the restrictions of the society (mainly the opposite sex, regardless of which sex they are, there is little intermingling for most people but some are more liberated.)
anyway it's nice to see that everyone is so openminded and such and that being at the frontiers of counter culture you aren't swayed by stereo types...
The only people profiting from the RIAA Shenanigans seems to be software companies that are designing anit copyright infringement technologies.
I only download stuff I would have never bought in the first place, or stuff I Can't buy because it hasn't had a UK release. Not allowingme to download these files doesn't make me buy the CD's or DVD's I just find something else to do.
It strikes me that the earth station Boss or PR guy may not be using his real name as "Ras Kabir" which is the name in the press release is arabic for "Big head". this may just be a discrepancy in the was his arabic name has been phoneticly translated to roman characters though...
But it's seeds doubt in my mind...
I seem to remember Xerox were working on a software system called portholes, you can probably find papers a plenty about it online.
but then you'd have to either contact them to use it or develop your own based on it. They lloked at alot of the issues raised by this type of software like privacy and the like and why it works, it was trans-atlantic too.
the only reason I know about this is because of a HCI module I did at university last year.
bluetooth + memory
Am I the only one who has noticed the j at the end of the 802.11 in the japaneses ZDnet article? it may well have been a browser glitch but it does make sense since 802.11j is a protocol designed to allow certain stuff to be done in the authorised radio band in Japan, the IGN articel seems to have knocked off the j but it the wifi has to operate to a standard and given that sony is a japanese company 802.11j seems reasonable.
more info on 802.11 whatever can be found at:
This is mildly annoying as handhelds have normally not suffered from regionisation due to them being used by travelers, and to have the networking protocol regionise them would be a bitch. either that or the whole world would have to on a whim switch to 802.11j from 802.11b (or a or g or whatever) which might no work in some countries where the frequency range it works in (4.9 to 5GHz) is restricted.
curses!
more info on 802.11 whatever can be found here.
--
It's all fun and games till somone looses an eye,
then it's fun and games without depth perception.
Am I thonly one to notice that the wifi it uses sems to Be 802.11j?
This may be an error in my browser rendering the page, but the 802.11 on the ZDNet has a j next to it, and given that there is an 802.11J standard (or at least there are allusions to one which was brought up to address 4.9 to 5Ghz operationof 802.11 in Japan) and givent aht sony are a japanese company, this could be annoying as one good thing about handhelds is due them being used by travelers they have been exempt from region coding but since 802.11J is a Japanese standard then...
Curses!
--
It's all fun and games til somone looses an eye,
then it's fun and games without depth perception.
I bought the p800 two weeks ago and I think I may be the only person that thinks it is an absolutely terrible phone... I moved from a Nokia 9210i Communicator another Symbian enabled phone.
At first i looked at the phones specifications and thought that it was a geeks wet dream, but having owned the phone, I am really regretting spending the amount of money I did.
So what wrong with it?
The stylus is made as if for a childs hand and is far too small for an adult to use, I dont have overly large hands and after a few minutes of using it I start to feel the strain.
When the phone is opne there is no way to see what time it is, without clicking on a tiny little onscreen button that is so close to it's neighbors that you cant accurately touch it without using the stylus, which means that you ahve to retrive the stylus from the side of the devive which is time consuming if you want to quickly see wht time it is.
Jot is absolutely terrible especially when compared to Graphitti (I know the whole palm getting sued for graphitti by xerox but they could still have licensed it), when ever you want to quickly type an l and then a space jot recognises it as a t!
There are no readilly available buttons when the phone is open and the Jog wheel on the side which although having 5 degrees of motion (you can push it five ways) is still awkward to use when you want to make rapid motions on it, which means that it is useless for gameplaying.
The camera has no cover which means that it gets dirty when it is in your pocket, and that leads to the pictures being fuzzy, also the camera randomly decided it was goignot show me the sony erricson logo instead of what it was capturing which I presume was because it was running out of memory but, i cant verify this as the phone showed no indication that this was the case.
When the phone is open and you are using is as a regular phone it is far to easy to press the end call "Button" on the touch screen with your cheek. I have ended some very important calls like this by accident.
The battery life seems to really vary some times when I am heavily using the phone it will last for three to four days however one day I fully charged it and it did not last 24 hours and I wads not using it at all.
The Synch software requires you to have third party software (Outlook or Lotus) I remember when manufacturors gave you software to backup your phone/pda, this happens to be a flaw with the 9210i as well but my old 9110 and my palm both came with software that allowed synching straight out the box no need to pay the Microsoft tax.
The vibrating function (althogh it is a boon to have one after the 9210i) is absolutely abysmal, i have missed a large amount of calls due to not noticing it, I am not numb ont he leg or anything my old 6210 used to notify me fine when it was on silent but with the p800 unless it is on the desk I am workignon the vibartion is unnoticeable (even then all you notice is the sound of the vibration).
I have set several alarms on my p800 and I have yet to hear one of them, I have not experimented setting an alarm and waiting for it but given that I used to use the alarm on my communicator to wake myslef up (and I am a heavy sleeper I was in Riyadh when Saddam decided he was going to bombard it with scud missiles, and I slept throughthe ordeal), I at least expect the phone to have a decent alarm.
The cradle seems to not want to release the charger cable which id mildly annoying as I cant cahrge my phoen in my room so I can hear it ring when I am asleep I have to charge in my computer room where it is connected to my laptop.
In general I think this phone is the worst phone I have ever owned(its my fifth or sixth) and I would not reccomed anyone to partake in the experience of it. There are are a slew of other problems I have had with this phone, like it defaulting to text and deletign it when you touch the screen in the internet config menues, the amount of times i have erased my messagin
Okay so this is a slightly harder fix but cant you just compt the cd using an optical out from a cd player the quality would be the same, if not similar okay it might take a wee bit longer but hey the price you pay for theft.