I haven’t seen an augmented reality setup in a while. The Tinmith backpack consists of a VR helmet, with helmet mounted GPS tracking, firewire video camera, orientation tracking, glove based user interface and a belt back that contains the mobile computer and batteries. These systems have very interesting applications. From navigation to correcting information in real time to work around partial blindness.
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Nice piece of kit, pretty dang impressive !!
Like the idea of playin Quake on the beastie; would have to be in a closed area though, networked with some mates.
You’d look a right plonker runnin about the streets alone fighting bots :lol:
Cylon “projection”? :)
yes, very cool. I tend to think it’d be better to leave the heavy shit somewhere and have a light computer doing any important (fast) work locally, doing the input conditioning and display stuff, but tossing all the heavy lifting back to a stationary system over a radio link of some kind.
Of course now you have range issues, but running around with all this on your back I think you’d have range issues as well. :-)
This is interesting, i’m a 3D modeler. Being able to select and manipulate 3D objects in well 3D would make some simple things alot easier for me.
Very cool
I wonder if the video is stereo, it would definatly make the whole setup alot more natural to operate if it was
Hahah, I go to the same uni as he does :P
I’d forgotten about this. Great use of VR – probably the best augmented reality system not funded by DARPA.
Now if only these guys were Second Life junkies…
mindbleach: then they’d have to fit all that AR equipment into a fursuit?