If you long for a high tech twist to your sandcastle making, the Augmented Reality Sandbox might be of interest to you. It's not the first AR table we've seen, but this special sandbox uses a Kinect sensor and a projector to create an interactive topographical map with real-time water simulations. As you can see in the videos below, you can use your hands or a shovel to push around the sand to form mounds and valleys, and the software uses the Kinect's distance readings to overlay a color-coded topographic map atop the sand — red means high elevations and blue the opposite. If that weren't enough there's an accurate water simulator: open your hands above the sandbox and you'll rain down water into the virtual world, which will then...
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