3 related AR concepts

Augmented Reality Magic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1xjbA-ISE

This software is an implementation of AR in magic tricks, allowing for 3D pop ups and stuff to appear over the cards that the user is doing the trick with. This ability to place blank areas over existing items is something that would have to be integrated into most of our group's concept ideas. For instance, we would have to put holes in the North Avenue buildings for the "choose your destruction" concept design.

Tinmith Augmented Reality Project

http://www.tinmith.net/

This project is an AR project that implements much more than just a cell phone. The user wears an entire AR suit that has its own hardware attached to the user's back. The user is able to model three dimensional objects in the real world through the gloves he is wearing and the goggles he is using. This implementation is important to our concepts as it demonstrates AR's ability to completely immerse the user in the virtual world, although the hardware isn't entirely streamlined at this point.

Gizmondo AR Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfp8id6bpDU

This last project is possibly the most applicable to the concepts that we have developed as it is AR being implemented in the form of a game. Users can use the goggles supplied with the package to create a tower defense game on any given surface. The tower defense game works just as any other tower defense game does, but it has the added appeal of being three-dimensional and seems to be in the real world.