aka "World's First Augmented Reality Car is a Volkswagen".

Surely there's other geeks around here... yes ???

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http://news.discovery.com/tech/beamatron-121012.html 

and a bit more detail here...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/kinect_augmented_reality/ 

this is nothing new, they used the kinect to scan a 3D model of Issac Newton's death mask some time ago plus many other more practical cool stuff.

I remember a few years ago this one guy build a rifle that worked in 1st person games projected on a screen. So he could play the games like shooting in real life. Was the wickedest thing I ever seen for gaming.

Pretty sure that used the kinect as well.

Yeah, the new part Vlad is not the scanning but the projecting.

There's no screen or goggles involved to let you see the image... they're effectively projecting into air using multiple moving cameras. Granted they're not great photo's - pretty difficult to photograph air after all I guess.

Augmented Reality is something I do a bit with at work, and lack of screen is pretty much cutting edge stuff.

Damn, that is very nice!
I've done some fun stuff with the Kinect, but this is taking it to another level.

Sides, what sort of work do you do with augmented reality? Keen to hear about it!

I just build iOS applications, augmented reality is a whole new domain that is for sure!

Hey Seb - I do Industrial Software... originally was at the control level for factories, power plants and stuff (SCADA software), but last 5 years or so has been a bit higher taking that stuff and presenting it to management via MES, enterprise systems and stuff like that.

The last 6-12 months has been mostly around digital dashboards and other cool ways of presenting data, and now looking at Augmented Reality on both iOS devices and now Win8 RT platform (Surface).

One current project is instead of having a panel attached to a piece of equipment, you walk around the plant with an iPad or similar and when you point the camera at the equipment you get an overlay on the video feed for controlling it, recent performance or maint history, schematics and stuff like that.

Projecting into air not really being used in that scenario... yet.

That's some really cool stuff Sides!
I've been building MenuPad which recently got featured on Apple's iPad in Business site -> http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/carmel-cafe/ 

I also have multiple little applications of my own, but nothing like digital dashboards and what not. Would be cool to have a chat one day, not only are you in the field I would love to be in, but you have done what I want to do to Zelda to Jezebel!

Augmented reality is something I have poked into once or twice, I built something that wherever you pointed your camera, a little character would come bopping by and take a look at whatever you're looking at, turn to you and then give you the thumbs up. That was when augmented reality with the iPhone was only new! It was bloody difficult that is for sure!