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Dekko is attempting to create a world comparable to the one in The Matrix with the help of real people.

Matt Miesnieks has launched an augmented reality project reliant on crowdsourcing in order to help his company, Dekko, to re-create as much of the world as possible, including some of its finest little details, in a digital form.

The hope is to take advantage of every possible camera and turn it into a scanner for the project.

According to Miesnieks, “In effect what we’re doing is taking every camera — in Glass or in smartphones – turning them in 3D scanners, and then taking all of those images to build a 3D model of the world.” Though this may appear to be a daunting project, to say the least, the Dekks team feels that it has what it takes to make it happen.

The team is highly experienced in technology and augmented reality and has learned from this experience.

Both Mike Miesnieks and his wife, Silka, who is the cofounder of Dekks, are Layar veterans. That augmented reality company was able to ride a considerable wave for the technology while it was still brand new. According to the couple, they have learned a tremendous amount from their time with that company, particularly that the traditional form of AR technology has been, in essence, a failure, so far.

He explained that “If the app works on one page of a magazine but not the next, people might use it once, but they’re going to toss it away.” From the standpoint of the experience for users, augmented reality may not, therefore, have lived up to the hype that has surrounded it.

The digitization process from Dekko is still considered to be somewhat on the rough side, but the couple says that this will lead to a rapid improvement. They have decided that instead of creating an augmented reality platform on the weak capability of a camera to be able to recognize the tremendous variety of different kinds of object that are found throughout the world, they are eliminating the entire concept of recognition.

Instead, the new augmented reality experience that is Dekko’s goal, is an entirely digitized world.

Developers from the company have now revealed the latest AR tech for cars instead of mobile gaming.

Though augmented reality is rapidly finding its place in areas such as mobile marketing, gaming, and other forms of entertainment, Pioneer has just unveiled a display that uses the technology which would be used in vehicles.

This technology mounts an LCD screen right onto the dash of a vehicle, where its navigation and stereo are traditionally located.

The augmented reality technology also uses a camera that would be located behind the vehicle’s rearview mirror. This allows an augmented reality effect to be created, where an image is projected onto the windshield overtop of the actual view.

This augmented reality display also relies on lasers to create “floating” images over the real view.

The images look as though they are floating a few feet in front of the vehicle’s position, even though they are actually simply projected onto the windshield’s screen. This trick gives the viewer the feeling that they are seeing graphics that are outside the vehicle, even though they are simply projections on screens above, where the sun visors would typically be positioned.

This trick is not only interesting and fascinating to many, Pioneer is saying that the augmented reality may actually help the driver in his or her experience behind the wheel. The display provides a great deal of information that all moves and interacts with the view of the road through the windshield. Arrows displayed on the screen help to make use of GPS guidance in order to lead a driver to his or her destination.

Furthermore, small balloons help to identify important areas that are approaching in the distance, such as restaurants, gas stations, and other locations. The camera can even allow the augmented reality technology to reinforce various other forms of information already visible, such as stop signs, traffic lights, yield signs and various other important forms of signage. The technology helps to provide these alerts in real time along with the view of what can actually be seen through the front window of the vehicle as it moves.