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Travelling by train can be a lovely way to see a country—until you get tired of the endless farmer’s fields and industrial parts of town where rails are normally routed. But if you’re on a train equipped with this slick augmented reality window that enhances the passing scenery, you may never want to get to your destination.
The AR system, called ‘Touch the Train Window’, is composed of a Kinect with GPS hardware, an iPhone, custom software, and a projector to overlay images on the window. Every time a passenger taps the window a new element is added, which is perfectly tracked into the passing scenery. It’s also a great way to get the most travel for your buck, letting you pass the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum in Rome, even Stonehenge, as you roll through the boring wheat fields of the American mid-west.
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It’s a lovely concept, but it’s not real.
Problems include:
Not being able to project onto glass (especially not black images like crows)
Kinect has a depth of 3m so couldn’t track objects in distant fields
Kinect doesn’t work through glass (fine for tracking hands, but nothing outside the train)
User point of view different to kinect – they wouldn’t see the same stuff the tracking software sees, so images could never line up.
You know what the biggest killed of this tech would be? Grease and dirt.
Most train windows are disgusting and grimey enough as it is from people and kids smearing them, imagine what it would be like if you encouraged to put your hands on the glass. Mmmmm germs.