Augmented Reality Climbing Walls Turn Mountaineering Into A Game

Andrew Liszewski, Gizmodo
Wed, 07/23/2014 - 10:44am

There are lots of reasons to tackle a climbing wall at your local gym: it's great exercise, it can improve your hand-eye coordination, and it helps instill useful mountaineering skills should you ever find yourself trapped on a cliff. But researchers at Aalto University in Finland want to take them one step further through the use of Kinect sensors and projectors that turn climbing walls into interactive games.Read more...

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