MIT Unveils "Surround Vision," Turns TV into Augmented Reality

The new technology could easily translated into an iPhone app.

"If you're watching TV and you
hear a helicopter in your surround sound," says Santiago
Alfaro, a grad student at MIT's media lab. "Wouldn't it
be cool to just turn around and be able to see that
helicopter as it goes into the screen?" Sure would. And Alfaro has realized that idea, in his thesis project, Surround Vision.

 

The set-up was actually fairly simple. The basic components were a...