I reckon the LARPers would love this
 

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1377#more-1377

Interesting. Could be good to see things like zoom, night
vision, etc. built into this. It'd also be cool if you could
overlay a "virtual" map over that of a real physical one, so
that virtual objects could be inserted into an otherwise
unfiltered/unprocessed representation of reality. IE an
empty warehouse, used for lazer quest style games, but with
virtual bad guys inserted into it.

Re: I reckon the LARPers would love this
 

Nope cos its SERIOUS pants

Give me a headset that takes VGA and the Compact Flash VGA out card for my PDA and I can get that working in less than a day.

The ASCII filters for video playback have been around for AGES - at leas as far as the original release of The Matrix on DVD - we had a great laugh in the office watching The Matrix in ASCII - well its watching The Matrix from the Matrix isnt it. I will draw to your attention that this was a group of Computer/Internet Geeks and not LARPers - there IS some overlap but not that much :)

Its just an example of real-time video effects and my Digital Camera, My phone and even the PSP Camera can all do it.

Nothing to see here, move along.....................

Now if it was overlaying GPS/Mapping and targetting information THAT would be cool...................