How MIT Builds Cities Using Lego and Augmented Reality | Science of Teams | WIRED

The MIT Media Lab is using innovation to boil efficient teamwork down to a science. With an enhanced ability to communicate across teams, MIT is creating a workplace that shares ideas in unprecedented ways. The Changing Places group at MIT tackles large challenges like fighting pollution and urban modeling; the latter of which is being solved by using a combination of lego bricks and augmented reality.


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How MIT Builds Cities Using Lego and Augmented Reality | Science of Teams | WIRED

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[JackTls]

I thought this video was going to talk about Augmented reality technology but instead it was an MIT lab advert

[NotQuiteJay]

It's LEGO, not LEGOs! #WIREDSmagazine

[ideatorx]

It's my dream to do my masters at the MIT media lab for industrial design! I'll make it there, one day. I only need to win a few more awards :)

[ramonbalster]

MIT, Lego and AR. What else do you want. :D

[ShaunDreclin]

Is there a demonstration of this without all the cutaways to the people talking?

[ChicagoBob]

I am trying to understand why there is an actual view at all and not just VR/AR glasses with 3D visualizations and different levels of detail. In other words you should be in "The Matrix" that you can play with.

[jamesonrichards]

the legos have zero use compared to having just a projection of the city and using an already built traffic simulators

[OmnieStar]

So why not just use old simcity working towns and city's to find the most officiant ways to construct and run one? I'm asking cause i wanna know what the difference is. Not cause I think what they are doing is wrong.

[Morrikd]

build affordable housing with this technology

[nathanupchurch]

Was that a nuclear power plant which releases no pollution when it said pollution in the video?

[trumanshow]

I feel very nostalgic, remembering the childhood playing with LEGO 💖. It was so fun and inspiring that I forgot about the time.
With the development of civilization, cultural activities and practical business seem to be merging.
That will be because physical labor in economic & social activities is shifting to brain works like policymaking or science.
The former is based on people's values and the latter requires the familiarization between complicating technologies & human senses.

[ihalloway]

still cardboard is dozen times cheaper