Augmented marketing and retail (Magic Mirror)
Visage Technologies' head tracking technology enables Augmented Reality applications where virtual objects are placed in real time on user's head, aligned correctly in 3D. Example include virtual try-on for eyewear, headwear or jewelry, or other marketing and retail applications as illustrated by two videos below.
The first video shows Eyewear Try-on
, our Augmented Reality app for the iPad 2. The application allows to virtually try on eyewear based on fully automatic 3D head tracking technology. Prototype head tracking and facial features tracking exists also for Android and a technical demo is available. Please fill in the software evaluation request in order to download the demo from Visage Technologies Download Center. For customised versions of this app or other custom development on mobile platforms please contact us.
The second video shows the application we developed for BAE Systems Saudi Arabia , demonstrating Eurofighter Typhoon at the annual Janadriyah show using a new interactive solution giving the visitors the feeling of being inside the plane. Video presents the experience from the point of view of the user standing in front of the screen. The user sees himself immersed in a fighter jet, wearing a fighter pilot helmet that stays on his head as he moves.
Products such as Natural Point TrackIR provide view control by simply moving the head, based on IR technology and requiring to wear an IR tag on the head. Head tracking can provide such function with a simple webcam and without wearing anything - see video in the next section below.
Visage Technologies' head tracking technology provides the real head pose in real time, thus enabling 3D applications to render appropriate views, turning a regular 2D screen into a virtual 3D screen.
If used with actual 3D screens the effect is even stronger. Furthermore, the technology can be used as a building block for autostereoscopic 3D screen technologies that require head position to be known.
The video demonstrates a basic view dependent rendering setup developed using Visage Technologies' head tracking by an academic partner.
Visage Technologies' facial features tracking technology provides the head pose and facial features locations, allowing direct facial animation in real time.The animation parameters returned by Visage Tracker can be applied on any appropriately rigged 3D (or even 2D) face model.
The following video shows a 3D face model animated in real time by facial features tracking. Tracking and animation are fully automatic.The face model has been automatically imported from FaceGen.
Advanced technologies are often embraced by artists using them in new and creative ways never imagined by creators of technology. Such is the example of the video below, illustrating an innovative project by Jenny Lee using our head tracking technology.
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