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Augmented reality became popular since the recent release of FLARToolKit, an AS3 library that can be use with flash 3D Engines. Everybody now can give it a try without installing any software, only a browser and the flash plug-in are required. (see the links below).

Augmented Reality with Flash

However a major inconvenient remains: we have to print a black and white pattern which will be used by the computer as a reference to create the interactions between the real and virtual images.

Without these patterns nothing works.  Unfortunately most of the time I’m just too lazy, I feel  it’s not worth the effort and click away…

Here comes the bright idea: print this pattern on your business card!
No more effort for your customers and they will come on your website to check it out for sure.

What is more, you can make this demo interactive and link to you products or your portfolio, see the video:

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AUGMENTED BUSINESS CARDS:

http://jamesalliban.wordpress.com/
http://www.augmentedbusinesscard.net/

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MORE ABOUT AUGMENTED REALITY WITH ADOBE FLASH / AS3:

The library: FLARToolKit
Start-up guide: http://saqoosha.net/…/start-up-guide/

Some examples:
http://ge.ecomagination.com/…/augmented_reality
http://www.boffswana.com/