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Pocket Projectors All-in-one Solution for Mobility, Augmentation, Communication. Ramesh Raskar Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) Cambridge, MA, USA. Ultimate Personal Display ?.
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Pocket ProjectorsAll-in-one Solution for Mobility, Augmentation, Communication Ramesh Raskar Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) Cambridge, MA, USA
Ultimate Personal Display ? • Mitsubishi Electric Pocket Projector DLP based with R, G, B LEDs Instant on, battery-pack Available Now
Pro’s and Con’s • Large image with small device • Image overlay on real object • Ideal for augmentation • Superposition of images • Higher resolution, brightness Issues • Ambient bright light • Affected by display surface reflectance
G R F I R F I D (Radio Frequency Id & Geometry) Photosensing Wireless Tags Find tag location usinghandheld Projector Interactive stabilized projection Many geometric ops Siggraph 2004
Augmented Reality with Photosensing RFID and Handheld Projector Siggraph 2004
‘Personal’ display • Shrinking portable devices that carry more data • Opportunity to switch between personal and public • Modular • Low cost mass market product • Will become building block • Platforms: TV, Stereoscopic, advertising, etc • Process: Tiling, Jittering, Superposition, Steering
Shader Lamps: Changing Virtual Illumination Raskar, Welch, Low, Bandyopadhyay, “Shader Lamps: Animating Real Objects with Image Based Illumination,” Eurographics Rendering Worksop (EGRW 2001)
Pocket Projector • Modular • Building block of every type of display • All-in-one • Display with small device size • Augment image overlay on real objects • Communicate with tagged world (RFID, Sensors) • Collaborate using shared projection merl.com
Handheld Projector Pocket Projector 2004-05 iLamps 2002 RFIG Lamps 2003-04