Shape land like Slartibartfast with an augmented reality sandbox (BoingBoing article)

[ChickPea]

I want one of these! However... according to BoingBoing's article, it's a mere $7K so, err, I'll get right on that...

[Mouse]

Oh my! That's definitely spaced me out for the rest of the day

[ThomasR]

Gimme one hour to play with it ! Please ! Please ! Please ! Please ! Please ! Please ! Please ! Pleaaaaaase !!!!

[Josiah VE]

That is so incredibly, amazingly awesome!!
Imagine the possibilities for cartography and the fluid worldbuilding.
You could shape a world them take a photo from any angle and sketch it on the computer or something like that.
That would be so, so fun to play with.
I love how it's just sand.

[Falconius]

I have no words for how cool that is. But there are also a ton of other possibilities for such a peripheral input too. Or at least the idea behind it.

[Mouse]

Its a shame we haven't developed the technology to make the interaction flow both ways - so that the water actually erodes the sand in the tray.

But maybe dreaming like that is what drives these fascinating developments in the first place

[johnvanvliet]

you can do that for a lot less than 7K

i have seen a dyi for someones kid using i think andios

but all you need is 4( or 8 ) cameras for "multi image stereo "
nasa's "vision workbench " or "OpenCV" or AIMS "Stereo-pipeline" and a few other tools can use the images to plot the changes and then use a projector on the sand box

really a bit simple

[Voolf]

What a neat idea. I would also like to play with that, but.... $7K.... wow are they using sand made from gold ?

[Matthew VE]

Wow, that is so cool! :O I really, really want to try that.

[Syrkres]

Very cool indeed.