Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality World | 拡張現実と仮想現実の世界

ARのリーディングカンパニーである、フランスのトータル・イマージョンが新しい展開を開始。私が期待するのは、制限付きでも良いのでKIOSK型端末、PCで利用できるライセンス無償のD'Fusionだ(今回含まれているかはまだ不明)。

Total Immersion, the global leader and pioneer in augmented reality (AR), today released a new version of D'Fusion® Studio, an evolution in AR technology.  Free to download, D'Fusion Studio 3.2 empowers developers of all stripes to create a new breed of rich cross-platform games and applications that leverage Total Immersion's groundbreaking AR technology.

Drawing on eleven years of market leadership, industry knowledge and expertise, D'Fusion Studio outperforms other AR solutions in three categories:  the speed at which targets are recognized, the ability to track markerless targets as they move through an environment and stability, or lack of jitter, in the tracked image and associated 3D elements.

"D'Fusion Studio uses superior AR technology to get as close as possible to erasing the line between reality and the digital world," said Total Immersion CEO Bruno Uzzan.  "Now, by making D'Fusion Studio free to all developers we've removed yet another barrier-developers are limited only by their imagination."

Showcasing the power of D'Fusion Studio and the potential of AR, Total Immersion created SkinVaders™-a free game for iOS.SkinVaders is the first game to use AR to bring players into the game-literally and physically-transforming their faces into game terrain over which alien invaders, known as SkinVaders, battle for domination. Players must tap quickly to combat the SkinVaders, while popping eggs laid by the aliens.

"Demonstrating the potential of D'Fusion Studio with the SkinVaders game was an obvious choice.  Games have always pushed the limits of technology," said Uzzan. "By using Total Immersion's D'Fusion Studio Platform, game developers can build immersive worlds in which players engage."

Video of Bruno Uzzan discussing SkinVaders: http://youtu.be/MuYajmiw-y4

(via http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/total-immersion-releases-cross-platform-augmented-reality-ar-platform-free-to-game-and-application-developers-144842575.html)