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I got a brilliant idea while looking at the inventor page. Has anyone seen those augmented reality games and toys that use a camera and q codes to create a digital image over a real image? The PS3 Playstation eye had a card game that drew 3d monsters and stuff as you play the game.
What if doll makers made heads with no face, only a blank head with a q code printed on it. (I'll try to attach an image just as a visual aid) With a head like this you could use a VR style headset with a camera giving you the ability to impose a real face on the doll as augmented reality. Using an app, or program, depending on whether its a phone or PC VR headset you can control this imposed face to moan, scream, insult you, whatever you want as you go to town with your doll.
I can visualize this but I'm not sure if I am describing it very well. What does everyone think about this?
Edit: I couldn't figure out how to add a picture...
I think you are on to something for sure. I have thought a lot about this myself. My idea isn't a totally blank face, but a rather plain template that works fine as head itself, but also can act as a template to superimpose AR additional feature enhancements. To the extent, that one could easily change from Sophia Loren to Liz Hurley to whomever. Of course things like lip thickness would be obvious when you kiss them, but for looks, the AR face should pretty much mask the template face.
Having just watched some developer demos using ARKit from Apple, I came here to see if this had been suggested before (hence finding this thread!) - it pretty much describes what I was thinking about. I'm not an iOS developer (I program other stuff, but I have a vague idea of the technicalities) - but it would seem to me that something like this *should* be relatively straightforward to do (especially with ARKit, which by all accounts makes things like this much easier than before). Work it in with a VR headset and you suddenly have a perfect match between reality and virtual reality.
vr will definitely have place with things like this. a virtual shopper experience. also seen someone talking about real estate virtual tours in stead of physical house inspections.
could see a vr show room floor for doll inspection as a big hit.