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Re: Thoughts on Augmented Reality?

thats the thing havent found VGA glasses so i plan on either a)making an in house system or b) buying one with RCA and coverting it to VGA

the gyro would be on the glasses and would be plugged in the dig. inputs on DS

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Originally Posted by juanfe92 View Post
I believe Frog Force has a set up such as this already actually. We played a match with them in Archimedes and they had wired up colored LED's to a pair of safety glasses that the driver wore. Every time a certain event happened on the field (i.e. camera lock, shooting...), one of the lights would turn on. I forget what exactly the lights meant, but it seemed to work out quite well for them
quiet a few teams have done this, but this would be using video from the camera itself on the robot allowing more of a First person view
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