*Together at last. And they're together *in Torino.* In the opening of this video, that's the newly retrofitted Venaria Reale hunting-palace that this iTacitus guy is checking out.
*In my novel CARYATIDS I set a technology quite like this in the island of Mljet, but it's keenly gratifying to see it show up in dear old Torino.
"The BMT Group and the Fraunhofer Institute have teamed up to work on an EU-funded project to offer Augmented Reality content on smartphones to tourists visiting historic sites throughout the continent. This would make it possible to see those buildings and paintings that have since been destroyed, or haven't aged so gracefully.
"Dubbed the iTacitus, the device allows you to point your smartphone camera at a given object or area within a venue, and detecting visual markers in the frame of reference, it can display additional information or overlay visual content. It can also take a survey of your interests and help you schedule and organize a sightseeing day in a specific city."
(((More, prettier:)))
http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/visual-time-machine-brings-the-past-to-life/
(((iTacitus, "Intelligent Tourism And Cultural Information Through Ubiquitous Services.")))
(((Fantastic to see history made so atemporally flexible, eh? Since it's necessary to get cynical ("Always Look at the Underside First") let's get cynical about this technology and it's trajectory. This "true glimpse" of history won't sell well, compared to Disneyfied "untrue glimpses." Wherever there is "Intelligent Tourism," brutal, vulgar and stupid tourism follows fast on its heels! Soon we'll have some themepark Creationist Augmented Reality, where you can visit the Grand Canyon and see pre-Noachian people pan-frying trilobites and riding dinosaurs.)))
