Four (!) days ago we were contacted by Kohta Awano about using our Augmented Reality video in a television segment about AR in Japan.

Below is the report. Now to get to work translating.

Thanks Kohta!

A few days ago we found ourselves at a Lego Store and stumbled across one of their augmented reality kiosks. The premise is simple and awesome: hold up a box in front of a camera and a 3-D representation of the fully assembled model is projected on top of it. You can rotate the box and the model moves with it.

Despite getting the stink eye from one of the employees, we managed to take a video of the kiosk in action:

As you can see in the video, the camera tracks the box really, really well. Unfortunately, the setup was limited to a handful of Lego kits—I would have loved to have seen some of the Star Wars sets in action. Nevertheless, I haven’t been so excited about ‘futuristic’ technology since the unveiling of the iPhone. I, for one, welcome our new augmented reality overlords.