castAR: Augmented Reality Glasses

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Bram Hengeveld submitted a new blog post:

castAR: Augmented Reality Glasses

Two ex-Valve employees, Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, have began their own company Technical Illusions and started working on a revolutionary product they named, castAR. The product is a pair of glasses which use is centered around the concept of augmented reality.

For people who are unfamiliar with augmented reality, this concept is about adding, supplementing, augmenting the real world, with computer generated elements. Think of the funny things you could do with the rfid cars...

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[Kevin Cordice]

It would be interesting to see this being use in a racing application

 

[Cote Dazur]

Very interesting!

 

[AussieStig]

Would like to see this working with total immersion for racing games. The thing about being able to see your wheel is quite personal, my point would be, once totally immersed in the game there is no need to see your own wheel you see the in game wheel. If there were gloves that were decked out with sensors for the glasses to pick up. You could have them track your arm/hand movements and reflect those in game.