Gundam Robots in Augmented Reality

Gundam Robots in Augmented Reality

This post can be summarized by three magic terms:

• Augmented Reality
  
• Giant Robots
• Yahoo Japan

Yes, it seems that the Japanese branch of Yahoo is much cooler than its American counter part. They have recently announced the coming release of a free iPhone application set to display a virual Zaku II mecha from the animated series Gundam (and sorry if I get this wrong, I've never seen it).
Interestingly enough the application is both image-recognition based and GPS/compass based. It will show the mecha when the iPhone camera will be directed at the (real) 18-meter tall Gundam statue in Shizuoka, Japan, and when the camera is pointed at a special marker.



For more details check out Anime News Network. Via Development Memo for Ourselves.