Yep. This guy really loves OutRun. And is also insane. Garnet Hertz created an arcade cabinet that you can drive around, and maps actual city streets to the 16-bit classic. Check out his real life version of the game after the jump.
Whew, it looks like you can see through to the road!
Hertz's golf cart mounted with an arcade cabinet combines the arcade classic with the actual experience of driving around on city streets. Custom augmented reality software tracks the world through GPS navigation sourced from an iPhone, combining it with twin cameras mounted on top of the unit to project the image seen here.
One of the goals of the project is to explore fault tolerance
It does not seem like the cabinet will map a real life parked car to the actual game, so it seems important to pay attention to what is actually going on. Although OutRun exceeds speeds of 180mph, the golf cart can only accelerate to about 13mph, meaning that the simulation does not match reality one-to-one.
Running at 13mph, it seems like pedestrians can easily be avoided
Using this cabinet, Hertz intends to explore the idea of using only a computer representation to explore real life. Research like this may prove instrumental in developing the future of automobile HUDs.
With self-driving cars on the horizon, we're thankful that more scientists are putting research into how computers view cars, and how real object tracking can translate to a virtual representation.
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Source: ConceptLab
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