Augmented Reality Façade

This is a follow up to Façade would be great on Project Natal.

For those of you who don’t read the comments, Ryan Burke informed me about an Augmented Reality version of Façade that they made at Georgia Tech in 2006. They recreated Grace and Trip’s apartment in real life, and you walk around it with an eMagin Z800 Virtual Reality visor and camera on your head and can see Grace and Trip superimposed on the real world. You can thus walk around naturally and talk to them naturally. It does Voice Recognition the cheating way, by having a human type what you say into a computer. You can even pick up the objects around the apartment and have Grace and Trip react to it. Apparently it is very immersive.

So let’s hope Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern get together with Microsoft and make Façade for Xbox 360’s Project Natal.