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DIY Augmented Reality Heads-Up Display

Posted by Unknown on from the because-reality-is-boring dept.

mkwan writes "A PhD student in Melbourne, Australia, has built an augmented reality head-up display using a baseball cap, an Android smartphone, and off-the-shelf optics. It won't win any awards for style or practicality, but it's a fun way to use Wikitude. All we need now is a Terminator-vision smartphone app." Not nearly as modern, but vaguely related: the Private Eye P4.

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  1. Re:PhD student in Melb Aus beaten up in 3...2...1. by niftydude · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is the same guy who wrote the partially completed android X11 server that was posted on /. recently. I didn't see the story there either. I mean, it was impressive that he had implemented most of X11 by himself, but a fully featured x11 app already existed on the market ( here), so I don't consider it newsworthy.

    How does his blog keep getting on /.'s front page?

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