Never in the definition of mixed reality did I imagine that anyone would slap moving eyeballs onto a car so you could tell which way the driver was looking (or not, in this age of cellphones). Â Yet, here it is, in all its strange and thoroughly Japanese-way. Â In mother Japan, we don’t augment you into the car, we augmented the car onto you.
Now let’s see them shed some gear by applying a Kinect sensor. Â Something tells me they’re probably already moving that way.
Congrats Yoichi Ochiai and Keisuke Toyoshima from the University of Tsukuba for helping us end the burgeoning year of AR with a grandiloquent example of what this technology has in store for us in the future.