Added Reality Interfaces

Of course, that is the usual way: writers, artists and designers create ideas for a movie or a book and make their technological craziness come to life – they don’t have the restrictions the real world brings with its crummy physics and huge atoms. Anyway, I wanted to point you to a new computer game, that also comes along with augmented reality. It’s a serious adult gaming game, where the protagonist also brings his own set of Ray Bans, including the “ARI” – added reality interface. Obviously, this is 100% augmented reality at it’s perfection. It has been before in many other games (HUDs, etc.), though, but here I consider it more featured, since the other parts of the game claim close-to-reality looks. With all the youtube videos on augmented reality and all the android and iphone AR apps swamping the perception of people, I think this kind of “product placement” will also promote the technology, since everyone will say “cool, I wanna have it”. :-) And maybe companies are getting closer to a neat results for HMDs… check out i-Bean to lift your hopes.

See the ARI in “Heavy Rain” at 7:40 min…

Talking about android… As you might have read, layar was officially released. I will post my first try-outs on layar and wikitude during next days. Just received the HTC Hero and now I’m running around, stumbling into lamp posts and banana peels… If I make it home, expect a post. :-)