Augmented reality in smartphone

© 2011 EPFL
© 2011 EPFL
Imagine you're in a museum, and you can point your smartphone camera to a painting or an object in an exhibit and instantly get additional information about what you're looking at. This is what PixLive, an application (app) developed by the start-up company Vidinoti, lets you do - enrich an image with text, video, and other multimedia content. Pixlive is a smartphone app that brings images to life. All you need to do is take a picture of an object, such as a birthday card, for example, and then add a musical extract, a personalized video, text or graphics to it, and the PixLive is ready. It can be sent in an e-mail or shared on social networking sites. The receiver opens the PixLive in the app, points the phone's camera in the direction of the card and the associated elements are instantly displayed on the screen. "The major technical advance of PixLive is to be able to visualize content instantaneously, live, without a delay.
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