technotecture

Norman and Nielsen: One step forward, two steps back

Hartmut — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:22:52 +0000

Quite a good article, which indicates the huge potential of research on mobile interfaces.

Bye Bye Windows Phone

Hartmut — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:15:06 +0000

Actually, I really liked to develop on Windows Mobile. I truly did. For quite a while it was a one of the best supported, in terms of development tools, mobile operating system available. The integration of the toolchain into Visual Studio 2008 was really well done - not flawless but certainly way ahead of the competition. Unfortunately, Microsoft decided that it would be necessary to revoke trust to anybody writing C/C++ native code or even touch the video camera on Windows Phone 7.

Mobile Augmented Reality - SSTT Mobile

Hartmut — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:05:55 +0000

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Augmented Reality Tracking on Any Device with SSTT

Hartmut — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:57:53 +0000

SSTT - Simplified Spatial Target Tracker is a computer vision based tracking library for Augmented and Mixed Reality applications. The basic variant implements a marker based approach with a minimal set of constraints. Unlike similar libraries such as ARToolKit or the marker based StudierStube the approach of SSTT does not require thick black borders. The SSTT tracking algorithm automatically qualifies company logos or even images in books immediately as tracking targets. The following video illustrates the tracking performance.