Wicked cool: Metaio puts a dragon onto side of a building (and it ain’t Arrington!)

February 1, 2011 By

No, the dragons in my life aren’t named Mike Arrington, although we did have a fun little debate over on Techcrunch the other day.

When I visited Munich I dropped by Metaio’s headquarters where they showed me their latest augmented reality prototype, which puts a virtual character onto a building. You can see it for yourself.

This was just a little fun in the snow, but later this week Metaio will put its augmented reality expertise to work on a major sporting event. More on that when the embargo ends.

Hope you enjoy this video from the snow of Munich. Damn it was cold! :-)

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  • http://twitter.com/Kostik_Y2K Konstantin Gonikman

    Robert, you see, we need you here in europe, as well :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-OBrien/1573749395 Bob O’Brien

    When I was little, we had to imagine our imaginary friends. This is really just waiting for wearables, to make shared games with virtual participants.
    A game facilitator could build comparable environments in multiple cities, and players could interact with each other (and fictional characters) as if all were in one location.

  • http://www.realestateactive.com/ Michael Real

    That’s cool! i hope I can use this for call of duty : black ops! That would be so amazing! And I am carrying a real gun and shot this augmented reality! LOL

  • http://twitter.com/thedelmann Thomas Edelmann

    Quite interesting AR technology work from good old europe!

  • http://www.experiate.net Paul Flanigan

    Combining mobile with AR, and I see this as a great technology opportunity for digital signage and digital out-of-home advertising.