Nerds, Get Physical!

The good thing about future gaming with augmented reality is, that you need a very good physical shape, to run around with aproximately 10 kilos of equipment on your head, back and shoulders. Gaming will be exercising – what painfully reminds me of my charley horse after playing tennis on the wii. Sorry, but geeks will go through hard times … So they should use their superior minds to create hardware that keeps up with the creativity of software development – or go to the Gym!

Follow this link, if you can stand brutal virtual violence on a real basketball court: http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/ARQuake/www/videos/index.html

Do you see the light?

 With a light probe you can make a virtual object interact with light and other real visual influences. Here´s a link to the interesting movies about producing, or better reproducing, light and mirror effetcts:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/us/web/quicktime.htm

Augmented Reality vs. Journalism

OK, there are many interesting prototypes out there. And especially in the augmented reality sector there are much more research scenarios than ready to use products. But nevertheless I would love to see a TV report about the real (sounds funny) scenarios. Where and how can augmented reality play a productive role right now? Hm, I think I could give some answers. Until somebody asks me I keep watching videos like the one above … By the way: I like it.