Cloud Mirror ties people to their online personas

Submitted by Boaz Super

Syyn Labs, a company that builds installations combining art and technology, has demonstrated the Cloud Mirror at Sundance. It's an augmented reality installation that combines a person's mirror image with photos and text from that person's online existence in sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Computer vision identifies a distinctive badge worn by each user and composites the photos and text in real time with the user's image. A video of Cloud Mirror can be viewed at the link above.

It is interesting to note that there are a number of mentions of computer vision in blogs about Cloud Mirror. In general, the term "computer vision" appears to be becoming more mainstream through its use in augmented reality.