Augmented Reality Remote Control Cars

There is no real gameplay here in this prototype, and it's nevertheless a lot of fun. You simply have two virtual RCCs on a real mockup in front of you, and you drive them where you want. For the anecdote, one of the screams when the cars fall down is the famous Wilhelm scream.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Augmented
• Reality
• Mixed
• Total
• Immersion

[totallynothere]

amazing... haha! I want a go!!

the trouble I have about understanding this technology is the lighting aspects.. are the shadows trickery? they're not actually calculating the actual light source of the room, are they? I can't imagine it's that advanced yet

[EmmanuelMFr]

Here the light source of the room is tuned by hand to match a bit the real one. We can do some automatic tuning (with, for instance, a camera looking at a spherical mirror to detect the lights), but it is a lot of work for results that many persons do not really notice. It turns out that on a virtual object, only one, clear cut shadow, is often preferred to several fuzzy 'real' ones.

[EmmanuelMFr]

Well a car manufacturer really paid to have what you see here to promote new models in a convention. Real rc cars would have been less clean after a few hours of play from the passer-bys, they would have been harder to drive, etc., so it has nevertheless some advantages compared to the "real thing".

[Macosxmikey]

Yeah, imagine having glasses with LCDs, and built in camera. The possibilitys are limitless.

[Crazyman1212]

awesome

[philipharperable]

ah lush! let's have a go...!

[BinnyNL]

Imagine your driving in your own street.. then suddenly your falling into an crater caused by an giant japanese robot, controlled by your mom! OMFG! I hope arnold schwarzenegger will come and save us from these devastating times... Im not born to speak english so don't discuss about my english grammer okay?

[HectorUch123]

Play games like destruction derby and twisted metal with would be amazing.

[Xzeleous]

Sweet! You have actually inspired me to use Augmented reality for my board game project for my Government class!

[ADeadRock]

yep, I could see this in upcoming games. that would be awesome

[MPZRACEVIDEO]

Now, thats interesting...good work.

[moffboffjoe]

it doesnt track the markers anymore(i think) but the geomerty that the cars are drving on and they have a 3d model which is matched up to the track in realtime

[MattThe3rd]

now what would be cool, is if you project the cars onto the actual in life board you made