Well for our project for this term we have to create some sort of project to work with augmented reality...
After our initial lecture my mind was racing with ideas for my project, the bonus with this project is that if your idea is not viable to create using the augmented reality technology then as long as you make something that shows what the idea is in a clear way then that is fine.
So some of my ideas i came up with are...
The lynx effect, this is one my personal favourites, for reasons that will become clear shortly. The idea is that, once you put on a special pair of augmented reality glasses, you can see through peoples clothes. In a very similar way to the way in the James Bond movies or in the lynx advert.
Zombie, this is another one that i like. When the user puts on the special augmented reality glasses, whoever the user looks at suddenly appears as a zombie trying to kill them. I think this effect would be cool and not to difficult to set up. Obviously due to a lack of funds i will not be able to program this to work with glasses however i could just use a trick of film so it seems that it is actually happening.
Explosion, this idea is pretty simple, whenever you wear the glasses, whichever building you look at will have a series of explosions coming out of it. This means that it will give the effect like there is a terrorist attack on whatever building you look at. You could also expand the idea to include headphones on the glasses so it plays the explosion sound into your ears to make it seem authentic.
Football teams, this is my only idea which i could actually create using the special augmented reality cards and software. My idea is pretty simple, whenever you were watching a football game or reading a preview about a match, you hook up the cards and the web camera. Then the players/formation and team news will appear, this will give the effect like there off the screen.
Player HUD, for this idea i thought that maybe you could take an existing First Person Shooter such as HALO or Call of Duty and create a standout display, so when you put the glasses on you have a 3d hub appear close to your eyes so that you have better vision. The nearest i have seen to this is in the Avatar blockbuster.
