UC Davis researchers develop innovative augmented reality system

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AR system creates real-time water A group of software developers from the UC Davis Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences have developed an augmented reality system that uses Microsoft’s famed Kinect platform to create realistic landscapes. The system, called the Augmented Reality Sandbox, can paint a topographical map on a flat surface, such as tables. While it is not the first system to bring augmented reality to tables, it features something that is currently quite rare in the world of AR: Real-time water. Developers make use of Kinect…

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