BBC News Discovers Augmented Reality
"LifeClipper, a project created by new media organisation Plug.In, gives artists the digital tools to prise open the doors of perception.
The augmented reality system is entirely put together with off-the-shelf components.
As the subject makes his or her way around the tour, global positioning satellites help trigger visual high-jinks in the rucksack computer according to whichever zone the subject has wandered into.
Nikki Neecke, a sound-designer and musician for LifeClipper, says: "We have developed different scenes of picture sets and music, and we use the GPS to determine where we are in the street.
When I walked past a paper mill I could see the inner workings, and hear the sound of the mechanics thumping in my ears.
In 1943 Doctor Albert Hoffman invented LSD in Basel, and there is an amazing section of the tour that plunges the user into full-blown psychedelia."
Finally! When do we get to make one of these tours for USC?