AR Turns Shoes Into Game Controllers
Augmented reality has made for some uniquely enhanced objects and applications of late, from meta-iPhones to music videos to new experiments in print publishing.
Enter Adidas and its take on AR technology: augmented reality footwear. The Originals AR Game Pack is a series of five shoe styles that will have an AR code built in to the tongue. When held in front of a webcam, the code will unlock access to an area on Adidas’s website with a series of interactive games in which your shoe actually becomes the game controller. (Read more on mashable, by Barb Dyward)