{"id":15094,"date":"2012-12-10T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=15094"},"modified":"2012-12-10T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T19:49:17","slug":"augmented-reality-prevents-death-from-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/gaming\/xbox\/augmented-reality-prevents-death-from-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmented Reality Prevents Death From Boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how everything is Japan is way cooler (see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scificool.com\/giant-gundam-robot-guards-japan-247\/\">giant robot<\/a>)? The folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user9591764\">Salad<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csp-salad.com\/\">Particle At Rest<\/a>, have developed a new amenity designed to reduce a common health risk associated with riding trains: boredom. Lush landscapes of rolling hills and grand blue skies won\u2019t feel so drab thanks to an interactive Augmented Reality window.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific monsters are unfortunately absent, but at least these harmless flitting images will satiate the passenger\u2019s ADD for a moment. Throwing together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csp-salad.com\/\">openFramworks<\/a>, a GPS, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/KINECT\">Kinect<\/a>, passengers use their interactive touch screen window to populate the scenery with fun objects like hot air balloons or people riding bikes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52999535?badge=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"575\" height=\"356\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/52999535\">Touch the train window !<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user9591764\">SALAD a.k.a. PARTICLE AT REST<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These fun little pictures don\u2019t revolutionize riding the train, but they do offer a fun and silly distraction until the next stop. I&#8217;d rather drop boulders on cars, but this will tide me over for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how everything is Japan is way cooler (see: giant robot)? The folks over at Salad, or Particle At Rest, have developed a new amenity designed to reduce a common health risk associated with riding trains: boredom. Lush landscapes of rolling hills and grand blue skies won\u2019t feel so drab thanks to an interactive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,905,907,3062,908,26],"tags":[3587,2041,316,179,3669,3162,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15140,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions\/15140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}