A simple augmented reality application in C#

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Hi All,

I would like to start a personal project that will give me a lot of new concept to learn and understand.

After some thought, I figured that an Augmented Reality related project will be the most beneficial for me because of the following reasons:

I haven't tried interfacing a program with a live video/camera feed
I haven't done any "image processing" project
I haven't done any "graphics rendering" ever

With that said, you can assume that I will totally suck at AR. So I'm here to ask for some advice regarding the best way to go through this.

st milestone project that I am thinking of is to take a cheap webcam and read some Data Matrix using C#.
nd milestone project will render some text-overlay on the feed when presented with a certain Data Matrix.
rd milestone project will actually render some 3D shapes.

I've searched all-around and found some nice yet advanced materials for AR:

http://sites.google.com/site/augmentedrealitytestingsite/

http://soldeveloper.com/

http://www.mperfect.net/wpfAugReal/

So I came here to ask the following:

Do you think my milestone is reasonable given my "deficiencies"?
In order to start Milestone 1, can you give some materials that I can study? I prefer online materials.

Thanks!

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