Setting the Table

After doing some further research into Augmented Reality I have been working with ARToolkit.

The ARToolKit is a collection of libraries, utilities applications, and documentation and sample code. The libraries provide the user with a means to capture images from video sources, process those images to optically track markers in the images, and to allow compositing of computer-generated content with the real-world images and display the result using OpenGL (Phillip Lamb, 2004). ARToolKit is designed to build on Windows, Linux, SGI Irix, andMacintosh OS X platforms.

It seems that the ARToolkit runs on a .net programming architecture instead of plugging into another programme - like the AR plugin for Sketchup, a much more direct system. So far the parts for the toolkit are downloading and then it is a matter of connecting everything together.
My plan is to separate the landscapes into components and then spatialize using either the ART or the plugin for Sketchup. The plugin requires fineagling, first in 3Dsm and then put into Rhino.

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The Wii Remote arrived and I am in the process of constructing a sensor bar. Maplin has the IR LED's thankfully!