Create your own game as you drive
More augmented reality than Top Gear
BOFFINS at the Berlin University of the Art have created a game based on what you see as you drive your car.
Carcade is a system that captures the window landscape in real time to create gaming stages as you motor.
Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk use a webcam connected to a laptop.
Software analyzes the video, snuffles the landscape and uses it as the terrain for a shoot-em-up kind of game.
The game requires you to move a spaceship to obtain stars and there is a two-player game mode.
In the future it would be made even more sophisticated by using laser meters to actually detect depth of the landscape.
Still it would be really good for those long rides with Damien Omen-child in the back seat asking every two seconds if you have arrived yet. µ
L'Inq
Gizmodo
Comments
AAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!
I drive in New York City. There are no ratings that could cover the horror and carnage such a video game would portray.They'd better hope nintendo's lawyers don't spot this
As the "game" they "made" is Starfox on the SNES.Licence this to GTA and driving schools please!
This would be great if I could make my own maps in GTA, or other driving games.Or for FPS.
Would be handy for driving lessons too, around the test area.
Might be good for other uses, like GPS mapping displays looking like real roads, etc. This tech has so many uses, wow.