http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu Augmenting reality Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu/2009/08/19/coolest-remote-control/ http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu/2009/08/19/coolest-remote-control/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:39:47 +0000 patrice http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu/?p=86 CRISTAL is positioned as an alternative to the many remote controls we have in our living room. But that doesn’t do any justice to the really coolness of this application of (highly interactive and informational) AR. Watch this video:



Some argue that it will take a long time before this technology will break through due to the fact that infrared is the current standard communication technology for remote controls and the devices they control. That will not be an issue for very long, though, since devices at home are increasingly inter-connected through home networks. TVs, laptops, computers, iPods, mobile phones already often have WiFi built-in. The only thing we’ll need to be worried about is viruses :)

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