Total Immersion Augments K'NEX Boxes

Let me first apologize for posting old news, I totally missed that a month ago. Avid fans of augmented reality surely remember that Lego and Metaio are collaborating, setting up specialized kiosks to enable buyers to look at a Lego box and see the completed model in 3d. It seems that Total Immersion won't let themselves be outplayed (sorry) by this collaboration. At CES 2009, Total Immersion used their technology to augment K'NEX boxes. Now, a cool video surfaced on Youtube showing it in action:



There's nothing on Total Immersion's site to indicate that this is a true cooperation, and not just a technology demo, but it's enough to make us update the scoreboard - Total Immersion: 1, Metaio: 1.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Google Total Immersion Lego. You will find AR Lego kiosk done already one year ago (with the same effect!). Strangely, almost all the videos were removed, only a few survived, like on this French web site : http://www.clubic.com/article-136092-12-video-reportage-laval-virtual-realite-virtuelle.html

rouli said...

Probably they removed those videos once Metaio got the deal to augment Lego boxes ...

Ariel Wilson said...

Wow, this is such an innovative use of K'NEX! Total immersion really takes the experience to a whole new level. I can't wait to see what other creative applications they come up with using this technology. Do you know any one who have expert knowledge on dissertation/academic field please ask him/her to send dissertation topics me

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