Posted on March 10, 2010 in Just for Fun
The idea of 'augmented reality' is like something out of Sci-Fi.
On your computer screen you see a map overlaid with a mixture of photos and video delivered realtime. Pretty amazing in itself that the thing can match up the video and photos on the fly.
Then, over the realtime video, information symbols point to highlighted objects or places in the video. These can link to anything, and the whole thing happens automatically. The video 'knows' what it is showing you and overlays more information about it.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft where he builds augmented reality into searchable maps. In this amazing video that draws grasps from the crowd you'll see the current power of Bing Map's augmented reality offering.
And the most mindblowing thing is that this is current technology, available right now. Albeit a little glitchy, but it works.
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