@Bill DeBrooke posted:It is difficult for me to see that the current thread of development will attract a hoard of younger players into the hobby.
Have you seen Youtube lately? There are almost endless model railroading channels (of varying quality, but still). The last two model railroading events (open houses) I attended had ages 8-80. I bet more kids would attend if they had a driver's license. I maintain the hobby is fine and will be fine. Doom and gloom attitudes and massive ego's are a bigger danger to the hobby than good or bad technology.
I still think this augmented reality is a wild idea. It would be so cool to drive through my own model railroad! I really wish I had the background to work on this sort of thing. Lionel could be a leader and give us access to mapping controllers to the app. That would be a start and I don't think it would be very expensive for them to do.
