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by Hexstream 6628 days ago
You're seeing possibilities for making a game more like reality; I also see possibilities for making reality more like a game. Think of the military implications of this. If you couple this with the other terminator-HUD-vision technology thing, you could have live team objective checkpoints and stuff... See what I mean? Also, it would be good for training because virtual enemies could be projected directly in the eyes of the soldiers. I think that kind of stuff is just around the corner (15 years?)
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That's along the lines of what I was thinking. Say you had a laser tag game with this system. Then, online players could be projected onto a physical player's HUD, and visa versa. The arena itself could have RFID tags on corners to easily provide the geometry for clipping, so the virtual players aren't just superimposed on the HUD.

Now, if the technology that generates 3D details from pictures progresses alot more, then the system wouldn't even have to resort to hacks like RFID tagging.