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Studio diip is a part of Pegamento B.V. registered at the chambre of commerce under number 32106184
Arnhemse Bovenweg 160
3708 AH Zeist
The Netherlands
+31 345 506 606
info@studiodiip.com
Magic book: Digital storytelling goes physical
/in Studio diip News /by diipOur latest project: The magic book is an interactive installation that enables you to read a digital book without losing the qualities that a normal physical book has. A camera with computer vision software detects the book’s position and a projector shows the appropriate animation to tell a digital story. In this way every blank book can become an animated interactive story that you can flip through and hold in your hands.
The magic book is intended as an installation that can provide visitors to museum information or to flip through the introduction of any book in a library. It can also be used to tell children a story in waiting rooms or playing areas for instance. The installation uses advanced computer vision algorithms to detect the books position and orientation to be able to project the right visuals on top of it. Still the end result has the simplicity of a normal book and can be experienced as such.
The webcam is pointed at the book and feeds images to the computer vision system. This system interprets the location and orientation of the book and then calculates the projection. The projector will then make the story appear on the book as if it was really on paper.
Fish on Wheels on Kickstarter today!
/in In The Media, Studio diip News /by diipToday the crowdfunding website Kickstarter.com has opened its doors to projects from the Netherlands. Because of the world wide success of our Fish on Wheels video we wanted to develop the fish car from the movie into a real product. Kickstarter projects are especially suitable for these kinds of innovative projects so we decided to make sure that we could launch our Fish on Wheels at exactly the moment that the website was open to project creators from the Netherlands.
Take a look at our project page and help us out by spreading the word, donating or buying your very own Fish on Wheels!
Augmented Reality Blackjack
/in Studio diip News /by diipAt Studio diip, we developed a real-time Blackjack scoring assistant that shows your current score next to your cards. By recognizing playing cards on a table with a top down camera, this system can determine the score for each player and project this around cards. A demonstration of the system can bee seen in the YouTube video.
With our already established expertise in the area of playing card recognition we were able to quickly build a system that is specifically suited for use in Blackjack. By looking for specific card shapes and using learning algorithms for the card’s index number the score is determined for each card. These are then added up and displayed next to the card by using a top down projector. In this way we “augment” the table cloth around the cards with information.
For now the system shows the resulting score for each player, but with the identity of each card known it can be extended relatively easy for other purposes. An example of this is showing the chance that a player goes bust when taking another card for teaching purposes or detecting cheating. The system is not limited to just projectors to show the score, imagine the possibilities of combining this detection with a technology like Google Glass.
Fish On Wheels on TV
/in In The Media, Studio diip News /by diipLast Thursday Fish On Wheels was part of the Belgian TV show “Scheire en de Schepping“. The fish driving car was already recorded for the Discovery Channel and an interview appeared on BBC radio, but this was the first time the car was presented to a studio audience.
The show itself has some resemblance with the BBC’s program “QI” and is a mix of scientific questions, humor and interesting recent news items. Every episode features four TV personalities as contestants that have to score points by answering questions to be able to decide a winner in the finale. One of these rounds involves a guest that presents a certain invention. The contestants have to guess what the invention is, but the guest can only answer with yes, no or maybe.
In the ninth episode of the third season Thomas de Wolf of Studio diip presented Fish on Wheels, along with some other computer vision projects. You can watch the whole episode on YouTube or immediately see this specific part of the show below: