Check out these new baseball cards from Topps that turn into pop-up animated 3D images when you hold them up to a webcam! What?! "Topps just released new baseball cards that, when placed in front of a webcam, create 3D characters of the players on the card," says CrunchGear. "It's not just animation, either.
The cards, called Topps 3-D Live, are built with technology. This technology is created by augmented reality companyTotal Immersion.(Total Immersion, global leader in Augmented Reality Solutions, develops the most scalable and reliable Augmented Reality Platform) This is easy to play.
First Download ActiveX control from the Toppstown.com. Install it. Once it's installed, you simply click on the appropriate player, hold your card up to any Webcam, and the player will appear to pop up in 3-D on your monitor's image. What you see is the digital overlay on the video stream itself, in real-time.
The card becomes fully interactive, too:
- Spin it around
- the player spins
- tilt it
- and the player in your monitor tilts.
You can even use your keyboard to have him pitch, catch, or hit balls -- and it all happens instantaneously as you send the commands. Jason Smith, senior project manager with Total Immersion says that
"You have to think of your Webcam as a mouse or any other input device"
As for Total Immersion, Davis says the company has a big year ahead, with more traditional consumer companies set to unveil new three-dimensional sides to their products this coming summer. The Topps 3-D Live cards feature 32 different Major League Baseball players and are available in all packs of Topps 2009 Baseball Series 1 cards, as well as within Topps' Attax baseball card game.
So, go and make real experience with the touch of new tech and new generation technology: webcam technology and 3D technology
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