Disney is going for a ride on the augmented-reality bandwagon, and it's betting the future of play will involve digital imagery that interacts with tangible objects—what the company describes as "traversing the digital-physical divide."
The concept is being developed at Disney Research labs with a new prototype device called HideOut. It's a handheld pico projector that projects digital images onto pre-marked surfaces, bringing children's books and board games to life as you move the device.