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Microsoft’s Steve Clayton has a great video from the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge showing how augmented reality can be enabled using custom handheld projectors. In the video you can see how the projector adds digital info to the real world environment and the user can interact with it using shadows and gestures. I love how digital objects can be interacted with in the real world, I want one!

A project titled Augmented Projectors shows the potential to augment environments with digital graphics – this becomes particularly interesting when the projector has an awareness of the environment in which they’re being used. Yes, projectors that understand the room they’re in. David Molyneaux and Steve Hodges are two of the researchers behind this work which has been submitted to Pervasive 2012 and when I showed it to some architect friends, it drew oooh and ahhs.

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