{"id":4170,"date":"2016-07-13T13:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2016-07-13T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:47:29","slug":"demo-an-augmented-reality-sandbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/demo-an-augmented-reality-sandbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Demo: An augmented reality sandbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=lego%20dam%20breach\">Lego dam breach<\/a>-loving sons would likely dig <a href=\"http:\/\/idav.ucdavis.edu\/~okreylos\/ResDev\/SARndbox\/\">this thing<\/a> (literally), especially in a drought:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m2cQa3xv6_s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>The Verge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/5\/6\/3003630\/augmented-reality-sandbox-kinect-topographic-map\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[T]his special sandbox uses a Kinect sensor and a projector to create an interactive topographical map with real-time water simulations\u2026 You can use your hands or a shovel to push around the sand to form mounds and valleys, and the software uses the Kinect&#8217;s distance readings to overlay a color-coded topographic map atop the sand \u2014 red means high elevations and blue the opposite. If that weren&#8217;t enough there&#8217;s an accurate water simulator: open your hands above the sandbox and you&#8217;ll rain down water into the virtual world, which will then flow naturally and gather in the lowest-lying areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cue my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2013\/05\/a-leap-motion-arduino-controlled-marble-labyrinth.html\">typical invocation<\/a> of Brave New World.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/INewImage-1.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"397\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/m2cQa3xv6_s\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Lego dam breach-loving sons would likely dig this thing (literally), especially in a drought: \u2028 The Verge writes, [T]his special sandbox uses a Kinect sensor and a projector to create an interactive topographical map with real-time water simulations\u2026 You can use your hands or a shovel to push around the sand to form mounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}