Top Gear Co-Stars Keep Hitting Their Heads on an In-Car Camera Mount
Be careful when mounting cameras to the insides of cars — a badly-placed mount could be hazardous to your …
Be careful when mounting cameras to the insides of cars — a badly-placed mount could be hazardous to your …
I'm a big fan of the UK car show TopGear, but I never thought I'd see the day when the worlds of TopGear and photography would intersect. Fortunately, I have been proven wrong. So sit back and enjoy as TopGear's Captain Slow James May goes into detail about how digital cameras actually work.
Typically, augmented reality falls somewhere between technological breakthrough and really cool thing to show your friends; but in the Science Museum in London's Making of the Modern World exhibit, augmented reality also takes up the mantle of education.
Using the $3 Science Stories app, visitors to the museum can point their iOS or Android devices at markers set in front of particular exhibits, and prompt a 3-dimensional James May (one of the hosts of BBC's Top Gear) to appear and explain the particulars of the display.