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So here's another special South by Southwest edition of RIA Weekly, as I recall we call it.

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This is, of course, Ryan Stewart that you see.

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Behind the camera.

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We'll introduce each other.

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And so you were about to test out something for, I guess, a session you were going to have.

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And so tell us what we're about to see.

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So for the session tomorrow, basically what I wanted to do is there's kind of an undercurrent in the Flash community

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that's doing a lot with augmented reality.

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And there's this guy in Japan who's created a library so you can take a pattern like this

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and start overlaying things on top of it.

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So what I'm going to do is show a really basic example of how this works.

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I'm going to use the webcam that I've got.

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And you sort of have, like, I mean, I guess, you know, it's an obviously sort of very unique symbol thing.

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That would be easy for a computer to recognize.

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Basically, the way the library works is you tell it, you create the symbol and tell it what symbol it's supposed to look for,

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and then you just draw random shapes on top of that, you know, use the library to draw using Pay-Per-Vision 3D,

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which is a 3D library for Flash, to draw 3D shapes on top of it.

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Once the web camera and the Flash player detected this shape.

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Right, right.

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So.

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All right, well, shall we see it in action?

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Yes, let's check it out.

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So we've got your screen there.

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And then, so what you can see, we'll get in close here.

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That actually is kind of, that's kind of cool.

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So as I tilt it, you know, it detects where the shape is, it detects what's moving on the shape,

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and then draws the cube appropriately, it rotates the cube appropriately.

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And thus, you're augmenting reality.

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Exactly.

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That's the augmented reality thing.

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Here's my reality, and here's the augmentation.

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So that is actually pretty cool, but like, so other than looking cool, like, what do you do with that?

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I have no idea.

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What I'm going to do with it is, my session on tomorrow, what I'm going to do is try to use this to pop up a little flex component.

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That'll then let me call a phone number.

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Huh.

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That's completely useless.

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I guess that is kind of, there would be an interesting way, instead of using just a mouse, you could use other things as sort of like an input device, right?

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Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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What would be kind of cool, and I wanted to show, but I don't know how to do multiple patterns, is you just flash like a business card up there.

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Oh, right.

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And it'll call, it'll automatically dial the business card number.

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Right, right, right.

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It wouldn't recognize the number, but it would recognize the pattern.

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It would recognize the barcode or whatever.

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Exactly, yeah, and then it'd be like, call mom.

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Right, right.

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Huh.

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Yeah, so yeah.

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Well, that's interesting.

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Thanks.

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No problem.

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Thank you.