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Post by DonkeyPox on Jun 18, 2009 3:48:28 GMT -5
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Post by maxwellhammer on Jun 18, 2009 5:21:38 GMT -5
Hm, Is that real I wonder?
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Post by DonkeyPox on Jun 18, 2009 6:04:44 GMT -5
I would say yes.
All the technology for it has been around for a while, although phone sized devices capable of doing the job only started turning up in the last couple of years.
Do a search for "augmented reality" and you will see all sorts of things that have been coming out of research labs over the last decade or so.
In this case all it is doing is tracking patterns drawn on the "map", figuring out where the camera is relative to the map then drawing the buildings and zombies on top.
I thought the skittles were a nice touch.
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Post by maxwellhammer on Jun 19, 2009 2:45:16 GMT -5
Yeah I liked that. There was something about the whole video that made me a bit dubious for some reason but I've looked it up now and it looks like it's real. Wonder if we'll start seeing commercial version of this idea soon
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Post by kickaxejack on Jun 19, 2009 7:59:18 GMT -5
Well, I can't see the video because my internet is down and the signal I'm 'borrowing' is really unreliable.
I played around with the Augmented Reality thing some months ago... GE put out this site where you print out a solar panel icon, hold it in front of your webcam, and you can see yourself with a 3D animated wind farm or solar power plant in your hands. I don't remember the name of it. The technology ties in a bit with this project I worked on, with QR codes and cell phones.
I wish I could see it, but it sounds like a outdoor/mobile based zombie game?
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Post by DonkeyPox on Jun 22, 2009 3:17:37 GMT -5
It is a tabletop zombie game, played on a handheld tablet with a camera.
The table has a printed street map on it. The software tracks features on the map, and superimposes buildings, zombies and people on top. The player gets a helicopter type view of the action.
Zombies are killed by getting them in the crosshairs in the centre of the screen and firing.
The game can also track objects placed on the map. The player has a pile of sweets that can be put on the roads to act as mines etc.
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Post by kickaxejack on Jun 23, 2009 15:25:49 GMT -5
Ah, I see it now. I wouldn't have imagined it being used this way.
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Post by DonkeyPox on Jun 23, 2009 17:40:41 GMT -5
Seamlessly inserting zeds into the world is still beyond the technology unfortunately. Give it another 5 years In my office I have an SGI Onyx 2. It is about the size of a fridge, represented the cutting edge of technology a few years ago and can be outdone by a high end laptop. You won't have to wait for long. Unfortunately the same argument holds for the forthcoming robot apocalypse. Stockpile food and guns!
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