Friday, March 13, 2009
Techies at play in an augmented world
17:56
The folks over at YLabs (our in-house R&D lab) wanted to show-off what our YVision platform could actually do so they put together this good-natured demo of the many ways people can interact in real-time with virtual elements in most any physical scenario.
Watch as the gang plays with something resembling a runny version of The Blob, has their minds read, volleys soapy bubbles about and oozes what reminds me of a virtual Slinky from both eyes, yet they seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves
Playing in an Augmented World from YDreams on Vimeo.
Tags: augmented, demo, interactive, real time, reality, YLabs

March 15th, 2009 at 7:59
[...edit by YD]. Augmented Reality is also hawt, you definitely get points for engaging children, they’ll be the prime users of these technologies in the years to come. I’ll keep an eye out for YDreams in future.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:03
[...] pretty excited about this cool piece of news! We just found out that our ‘Playing in an Augmented World’ demo-mix (posted here earlier this month) submitted at this year’s MIX09 Showoff contest, and [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 11:38
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