{"id":1241,"date":"2010-02-15T19:52:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:49:41","slug":"augmented-reality-tattoo-that-transforms-into-a-flying-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/augmented-reality-tattoo-that-transforms-into-a-flying-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmented Reality: Tattoo that transforms into a flying dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augmented reality, the words bring to mind a science fiction world where people wear glasses hooked up to computers that give additional information on the item being looked at. I have read scores of novels where this technology is in use by humans (both in a positive and negative sense) but till date this technology was still in the realm of Science Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Now this has changed. ThinkAnApp studio based in Buenos Aries has developed specialized software that allows them to create a tattoo that when viewed through a camera gets transformed into a flying dragon. Or anything else you want. Pretty cool eh? <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the Tattoo looks like when viewed through a camera: <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tat2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tat2\" width=\"550\" height=\"396\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tat2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/tat2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Check out the video demoing the tattoo in action <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetblips.dailyradar.com\/video\/thinkanapp-augmented-reality-tattoo\/\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>This is just a prototype and isn&#8217;t released for public use yet. But it is a step in the right direction and slowly but surely we are moving closer to the day when the virtual world will overlay the real world and open up all the awesome possibilities that entails. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.dryesha.com\/2009\/08\/video-thinkanapp-augmented-reality.html'>ThinkAnApp &#8211; Augmented Reality (tattoo)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augmented reality, the words bring to mind a science fiction world where people wear glasses hooked up to computers that give additional information on the item being looked at. I have read scores of novels where this technology is in use by humans (both in a positive and negative sense) but till date this technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-related","category-computer-software","category-my-thoughts","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}