My favourite writer, William Gibson (GreatDismal on twitter) once wrote a short story about a “very augmented” reality game; Dogfight (you have to search for it in that page).
Now we almost got the tech to make it reality, and that’s what i’m working on these days: an augmented reality game where two players control an airplane with their minds and fight each other in the real world environment.
Unlike the short story, I can’t have projectors make the airplanes appear into the real world, but you can see the real world trought an HMD and there I can overlay the virtual airplanes with the real world.
Like the short story the players moves the airplanes with tought, and this is done via the epoc, a brain computer interface sold for about 500$. I don’t actually own one, it’s too expensive, but I’ve access to it’s SDK, so I can develop things with it’s tech.
I’ve already said too much about this thing, so other news will come as I go deeper into developing it.
