A few things:
1) From 2010: put on the glasses, and you can see Matchbox/Hot Wheels-sized computer generated cars roll around on your desktop. The company behind this uses a Microsoft Kinect mounted above the desk looking down; the system analyses the view, figures out the geometry, and animates accordingly, adjusting the view for the position of the glasses so that what you see looks like the cars are actually interacting with the physical world.
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2) Do you have arachnophobia? Do you want to get rid of it? Then apparently one of the best therapies is to get a bucketload of spiders to crawl all over you. If you don’t have access to a Kentucky Fried Horrormonster Family-sized Spiderbucket, you can always try augmented reality spiders. The same company presents this impressive bit of high-tech nightmaresauce:
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Article:
Virtual spiders creep and crawl their way toward phobia treatment
3) And once you’re done having computer generated arachnids harrow your very soul, finish it off by hooking up a toy to your radio, TV, or iProduct and have it talk at you. A commercial I saw on the tube a few days ago showed that you could also plug it into your in-automobile GPS system so that you could have a dancing, talking plush lion on your dashboard giving you directions. Because sure, why not.
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Someone has got to get one of these and post a YouTube vid showing an Obama speech as filtered through this modernized Teddy Ruxpin.
4) And then fire up the idiot box and watch the forthcoming “Tron: Uprising” animated series, set between the two movies. looks like it might be good.
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