Thursday, January 28, 2010

AR Drone: Augmented Reality Flying Robot

AR Drone is a flying robot which has 4 propellers, two cameras and can be controlled with device with WiFi, for example iPhone.

This drone use two cameras to know its position and then to build Augmented Reality. The drone is robust against the wind. It can transform its surrounding into augmented reality for iPhone.

It is said that the AR Drone is future of AR gaming industry.

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More about the Drone can be seen from IEEE Spectrum article.