Dinosaurs To Storm Japan Through Augmented Reality Exhibit

I hope William Gibson knows about this! I'd like to get my hands on this tech and do some awesome installation art.

SnehaArion

That 3D model is pretty bad.

they could use some better lighting or bump mapping if someone ask me, and get rid of that stupid look it has on its face.

@Nintenboy01: Oops, you're right... Next time I'll check with my 6 yrs old... He knows them all!
:)

@jessedybka: Really? That's awesome!... Any link to the news source?
I would still like white-fluffy-pink-polka-dotted T-Rexes

aec007

@Guymann: hahah same

@SewerShark: Combobreaker! TT__T

@Nintenboy01: Not sure what its called, but it looks a little like my Great Aunt Opal.

@SewerShark: YOU'RE meant to come down here and defend me against these characters and the only one I've got on my side is the japanese porn addict!

KingSnakeX4

@jerrymedina: I do...I apreciate all those porn related products that they do. And some non-porn as well.

SewerShark

@OMG! Ponies!: Is there anyone here who can appreciates what the Japanese are trying to do?

That ceratopsian could use some nicer, more colorful texturing and normal-mapping.

@aec007: Psst, that's a triceratops in the picture.

@Hello Mister Walrus: Does he inherit incredibly small two-fingered arms as well?

@aec007: Actually, as of this week, that's not true at all. Over the last 7 or 8 days scientists have been pretty excited over a mummified dinosaur discovery that shows skin texture and actually has preserved soft tissues.

@Hello Mister Walrus: Woo hooo! I want me a Macross cannon! I was scared we were moving toward the future in Blade Runner where I'd have to worry about all those sneaky replicants.

Xeno

@OMG! Ponies!: I went to a semester of school there... You can have fun at 4:20, it's just goddamned expensive and VERY hard to find. Go for some chu-hi if you still want an herbal remedy.

Now that would make for some sick shit. The future is unknown and seems far, yet we're making progress with stuff like this! One day we will all live in a digital domain somewhere in the universe.

nerve11

i can see in a near future, this same museum, with some hentai exhibition, making the fantansy of al lot of perverts come to life!

martinS60

@Naoki - Photoshop Ninja:

I can see it now: "Jurassic Park: The Augmented Reality Adventure".

fsusmithc2

@Curves: At least they were faithfuland gave that stegosaurus a grey matte color.
I love how any dyno movie/tv program etc... shows dynos with funky colors or stripes when there's absolutely no trace or record of skin imprints anywhere. We just have bones. No muscle, hair or skin tissue.
I can understand the muscle structure extrapolated from current land animals to get the same ratio of muscle/bone structure and come up with a fairly accurate body size and shape.
But as far as skin texture , hair and colors... it's always a guess...
You can't assume T-Rex was a green just becasue a typical lizzard is green.

T-Rex could've had white fuzzy hair with pink polka dots. That would be just as good of a guess....

aec007

I certainly hope that there are augmented virtual electric fences in place around the raptor pen

@Hello Mister Walrus: After the Cubans finally attack us and we all yell "Red Dawn!" those of us in NY will be trying desperately to find Snake Plissken for a glider ride outta this hell hole.

@OMG! Ponies!: +1 FTW... Classic quote!

DaShocKer

@Mr.Gurbic: If only Isaac Asimov were still with us to throw a copy of 'I, Robot' at them, with the 3 laws of robotics.

jetRink

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Haha, nice.

@glamajamma: Probably some intern did it over the summer.

Hello Mister Walrus

@glamajamma: Oh my fecking god. That made me laugh myself silly.

I hearted you for that.

the triceratop appears to have down syndrome .

deliciousburglar

I hope the audio is just some dude going
"Grrrr Snort Spit Grrrrr"

glamajamma

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Why not?

The dinosaurs did.

But anyway, this supports my belief that Japan will slowly converge to one of two futures: Ghost in the Shell or Gundam/Macross/Evangelion. Australia will become Mad Max, England will be V for Vendetta and the US and Russia will end up nuking each other.

Hello Mister Walrus

Its a 2009 "Golden Calf" exhibit.

Mr.Gurbic

So you have to walk around with one of those wired polaroid/duck beaks?

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

I visited Chiba, Japan once. Sadly, they don't do anything special at 4:20.

Not only will kids love it, I bet a lot of adults will too (I would love to see it). It is one thing to see a picture and hear what the dinos were like, and an entirely a different experience to SEE them.

I'll accept this as a temporary placeholder until they get around to making freakishly realistic robotic dinosaurs.

It's all a normal day at the 3d CGI dinosaur museum until a radioactive T-rex bites some kid. Then he becomes Tyranosaurusman with the awesome powers of a dinosaur, like wall climbing and dinosaur sense. It was that day that I learned that with great power comes great responsibility.

Wait, where is this? Who are you people?

Hello Mister Walrus

The Japanese scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

I'll tell you the problem with the web design power that the Japanese are using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. They read what others had done and they took the next step. They didn't earn the knowledge for themselves, so they don't take any responsibility... for it.

You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a webiste, and now you're selling it...

You want to sell it!