Arcade Mobility
Garnet Hertz and the University of California, Irvine, have combined on a project called The OutRun Project. For this experiment, an old OutRun arcade cabinet has been combined with a go kart to create a new form of virtual reality experience. The OutRun Project uses a camera attached to the top of the arcade cabinet, to send a signal to a built-in computer, which then interprets it as a video of the road, which is projected through the arcade screen. And it hows your current surroundings with the retro graphics of the original video game.
The goal of the project is to use the technology to deliver game-based therapies for people who have limited mobility, such as quadriplegics.
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