Using Augmented Reality to Bring Dinosaurs Skeletons to Life ??? a Tutorial

Hi. I’m Florent Germain, a French engineer working with Industrial Augmented Reality during the day, and printing dinosaurs skeletons at night.

I’ve recently entertained the idea to combine my day job with my 3D printing hobby, in order to build a small AR-powered museum for my daughters and I.

The base idea is quite simple: 3D print, assemble and paint a skeleton; use computer vision technology to recognize and track it in space; overlay a 3D design of the fleshed-out animal on top of it. Here is what it looks like:

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