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Virtual Reality Book Overlays

Posted by michael on from the illustrated-primer dept.

fiannaFailMan writes "The Magic Book is a technology that allows a user to look through a handheld viewer with a built-in camera and see 3-dimensional models as if they float above the book. The software is clever enough to keep track of where the page is, so if you move the book, the model moves with it. One application is displaying content telling the story of the America's Cup. You can download the application and use your own webcam to view this, minus the 3D effect of course."

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  1. does it work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    for blind people?

  2. Damn by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    seemed interesting till I saw that the software was windows only, and that I don't have a webcam, and I can't read....damn

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  3. Re:3D Instruction Manuals? by Lispy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, imagine this for IKEA manuals. That would be cool. Or even LEGO. ;-)

  4. yawn. by torpor · · Score: 4, Funny


    wake me up when larry (as in flynt) is using it..

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  5. Re:3D Instruction Manuals? by modifried · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, imagine this for IKEA manuals. That would be cool. Or even LEGO. ;-)

    Yeah, I can see IKEA's new slogan now.

    "You don't have to be rich, or even smart."

  6. Re:3D Instruction Manuals? by blowdart · · Score: 2, Funny
    You forgot the obvious technology that drives adoption of things like this. PORN!

    3D Porn!

  7. other use by hawley+Griffin · · Score: 3, Funny

    porn?