Monday, October 3, 2011

Augmented reality? Local Positioning System?

It occurred to me the car video would be a good target for augmented reality. I already have overlays, but you could insert location-based data over the video, for example the other cars, pit stops, navigation, maybe even explosions!

The trouble (as with any augmented reality system) is tracking distance, rotation, angle etc so as to place the augmented items correctly on screen. For a while I have been considering the idea of a LPS (local positioning system), like GPS, for accurate location of items in a small area. Fast compass measurements would also be necessary.


I recently attended a talk on lightweight java game library, which is mainly a simple, fast wrapper for OpenGL, so rendering objects is actually pretty easy :) Minecraft uses LWJGL.

Just thoughts, so far...

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