Aside from cool aesthetic effects, projection mapping (mapping projection precisely onto real-world objects) and augmented reality (what you get when you add digital projections to your reality) can be useful.
So, while we’ve already seen plenty of projections on walls and floors, this is a projection on a climbing wall. It might seem silly, but climbers use other means of keeping track of which way to go. This provides multiple paths on the same wall without extraneous information. It’s a wall that can actually help teach you to climb, without someone at the bottom shouting at you. From the description:
iOO Climb turns every ordinary climbing wall into an augmented and interactive climbing experience. Thousands of boulders and routes can now be saved on a single wall, and browsed and played using a single remote control. Climbers can thus focus on their climbing experience, forgetting numbered stickers and colored stripes. Climbing routes are displayed only where and when it is needed.
Via Hacked Gadgets, and sent our way by Drew Atienza. (Thanks!)
I’m bad enough at climbing that I could probably use some projections giving me digital encouragement. Create Digital Exercise, anyone?
i love to see things taken out of thier original context and used for other ( potentialy more "usefull" ) purposes.
a great use of projections, i can totaly see how usefull that is as a learning aid for teching climbing techniques 🙂
[…] Projection Mapping is a growing trend — exactly mapping the images from a digital projector onto a real world 3D space. I’ve covered some previous examples here. This is the first example I’ve seen which is not pure art, and seems to have real-world usability. I particularly like the reply function. What other examples of Project Mapping have you seen? (via createdigitalmotion) […]
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