Do you remember the scene in an early Star Wars movie where R2-D2 and Chewbacca played a holographically generated, Jedi 3D board game while killing time in their light freighter? Full-color, three-dimensional game pieces were projected onto the board. Chewbacca wasn’t a particularly good loser, and R2-DR2 blipped and beeped a lot. Well, a few decades later, we may be about to see a projected augmented reality system — for real.
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castAR Makes the World Your 3D Playground
Posted by: Patrick Nelson October 16, 2013 05:00 AMDo you remember the scene in an early Star Wars movie where R2-D2 and Chewbacca played a holographically generated, Jedi 3D board game while killing time in their light freighter? Full-color, three-dimensional game pieces were projected onto the board. Chewbacca wasn’t a particularly good loser, and R2-DR2 blipped and beeped a lot. Well, a few decades later, we may be about to see a projected augmented reality system — for real.