Azure Kinect body tracking character creator
The visitor stands in front of a screen. Two portraits of lords of the castle are shown on the screen. The visitor can select a lord of the castle by effectively moving his hands and clicking on it virtually. Once chosen, the visitor can dress up a character with items of clothing from the lords of the castle. Each choice is commented via audio. It is in this way that the visitor gets to know the characters better.
Hololens interactive MR castle projection
Maria-Anna van den Tempel came into possession of Horst Castle by chance. Owning the castle gave her the opportunity to fully develop her status. As Countess of Haultreppe and Essenbeek, she certainly already had some status, she also had the necessary connections within the Brussels court nobility, but because of the work she had carried out at the castle, she seized the opportunity to move up the social ladder to stand. It was Maria-Anna who had the castle adapted to the standards and comfort of the 17th century. Characteristic of Maria-Anne is the fact that she herself spent very little time effectively in the castle. Much of the work and maintenance of the castle was coordinated by her landlady, Wilhelm Piret. At the time of Maria Anna, the castle was really a small company where everyone had their own task and where everything could be immediately prepared if necessary to receive Maria-Anna and her high visit.
AR Poetry experience
When the visitor is in the outer zone of the castle, he can look around by means of an Augmented Reality application. In the virtual world, the visitor can see how the garden staff maintain the garden. The tasks of the staff play out in an infinite loop.
Dit is een metaforische verwijzing naar het feit dat het personeel er altijd voor zorgde dat het kasteel er piekfijn uitzag en dat het werk nooit ophield, maar dat Maria-Anna, de kasteelvrouw in kwestie, slechts enkele keren op het kasteel heeft verbleven. Om de beleving kracht bij te zetten, wordt een bijpassend gedicht voorgelezen.
AR Book page tracking
Hidden away in the Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges is one of the oldest preserved pharmacies in Belgium. On the central counter, kept under a glass dome, is the Winckelbouck of Sister Eléonora Verbeke. It is an imaginative document that will make your hands itch to leaf through it yourself and to copy the recipes yourself.
Model Based Tracking as communication tool
For this prototype, the model-based tracking technology was used to demonstrate the usefulness of the application as a communication tool within a production environment. As a replacement for written tree structure lists, various departments, such as quality check and repair, can display shortcomings on unique assembly pieces in a very visual way. In this way, operators can proceed to repair much faster instead of going over the quality check list manually and having to track down the errors.
Augmented Reality Model Based Tracking
Model-based tracking makes it possible to project augmented reality onto physical objects without the need for trackers or QR codes. This brings the great advantage that the space or physical objects do not have to be adjusted in order to project AR, but also that we can accurately pin the digital information to the physical elements. This prototype shows the potential of model-based tracking in the context of virtual training on physical parts. The user is guided step by step in the real life scenario about the correct assembly steps.
Augmented Reality “program by example”
Using projection and a digital replica of the physical parts (digital twin), an operator can be guided hands-free in an assembly. The innovative approach of this method is the way in which the projected procedures are captured. They are generated dynamically by first performing the assembly yourself within a teaching mode – program by example. Each step in this proof-of-concept is linked to CAD matching and/or image processing integration to guarantee that the individual parts are also correctly oriented during assembly.
Augmented Reality indoor wayfinding
In indoor wayfinding, the lack of a GPS signal and/or usable WiFi signals presents a challenge to help someone navigate from point A to point B without using extra hardware such as beacons. Commercial hardware such as the Samsung S8 was used for this, combined with the ARcore framework, with which a prototype was developed that makes indoor wayfinding possible. The user can select his target location from a central point, after which he is guided visually step by step.
