Augmented Reality Tourism

pershino writes "Augmented reality is gaining real world application to take us backwards. The BBC has a story about a European Union-funded project providing tourists with computer-augmented versions of archaeological attractions like Pompeii."

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Technology behind Augmented Reality

[FiReaNGeL]

The tech behind this amazing stuff is from 2d3, a UK company. Among others, WETA digitals (responsible for the LOTR CG effects) used their camera-tracking soft for post-production.

Holodeck, closer than we think?

Re:AR isn't quite the same

[nbert]

but isn't this exactly what they want to do? To visit the place and wear some VR display which augments the parts which aren't there anymore? Walking through the remains of Pompeii *seing* what the city used to be like sounds like a great idea to me.

Might look even more disgusting than those audio guide headphones, but I think it's still a good tradeoff ;)

The Implications of AR Tourism

[Spellunk]

Not only does this appear to greatly help tourism by drawing children (and their parents) to sites that may have been dying from a worldwide slump in tourism.

My first thought when reading the article was "they are going to make great interactive video games with this".

Good job posting this in the games section.

Rats !

[janoc]

OK, I am a sysadmin of VRlab and the Lifeplus project you are Slashdotting is on my server. How nice :)

BTW, Lifeplus is finished already, check out the other projects on our web site.

Regards,

Jan

Re:Reaction to Pompeii

[mrchaotica]

I've been to Pompeii too, and what I would say would be the best use of augmented reality would be to put back the walls and roofs and such of all the buildings. I wouldn't want it to be photorealistic so that you couldn't tell which parts were real, but I would want something like a wireframe outline, or a semi-transparent thing.

By the way, in that area of Italy the places I enjoyed the most were the town of Sorrento, and the island of Capri. For all I know Lipardi etc. could be even better; I didn't see them.