watch this to see how it works:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm
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You can expect video games to drive the development of augmented reality, but this technology will have countless applications.
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For a wearable augmented reality system, there is still not enough computing power to create stereo 3-D graphics. So researchers are using whatever they can get out of laptops and personal computers, for now. Laptops are just now starting to be equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs).
Toshiba just added an NVidia GPU to their notebooks that is able to process more than 17-million triangles per second and 286-million pixels per second, which can enable CPU-intensive programs, such as 3-D games. But still, notebooks lag far behind -- NVidia has developed a custom 300-MHz 3-D graphics processor for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox game console that can produce 150 million polygons per second -- and polygons are more complicated than triangles. So you can see how far mobile graphics chips have to go before they can create smooth graphics like the ones you see on your home video-game system.
Practical portable 3-D systems won't be available until at least 2005, said MacIntyre. His research lab is currently using a ThinkPad to power their mobile augmented-reality system. The top ThinkPads use an ATI Mobility 128, 16-MB graphics chip.
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so 2006 shouldn't be a problem if nintendo wanted to do something like this on a machine...
and where is that patent with the nintendo point of view patent?
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Gaming - How cool would it be to take video games outside? The game could be projected onto the real world around you, and you could, literally, be in it as one of the characters. One Australian researcher has created a prototype game that combines Quake, a popular video game, with augmented reality. He put a model of a university campus into the game's software. Now, when he uses this system, the game surrounds him as he walks across campus.
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