Augmented Reality
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Avo
Avo is television and a video game at the same time, in the same frame, on a phone you hold in your hand. The story is held inside a filmed world, with the full cast and crew of a children’s TV production, and a 3D character lives inside that world.
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Suwappu
Suwappu is a set of small stackable two-piece woodland-animal toys whose tops and bottoms can be swapped between species. The toys come to life through a phone camera held above them, films and stories playing out in augmented space around each character. Made at BERG for Dentsu London, 2011.
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Augmented (hyper)Reality
Augmented (hyper)Reality by Keiichi Matsuda A competent visualisation of an undesirable future.
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Augmentia
Anselm Hook , one of the founding thinkers of the geo-web, co-organiser of the first ARDevCamp at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View late last year, lays out the emerging issues with Augmented Reality. He relates it to a whole host of known and unknown problems around ubiquitous computing, semantic publishing and data platforms. A few passages worth holding on to:
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Parallel tracking and mapping for small AR workspaces
I love how it goes in and out of register, and how it ‘picks up’ the registration from an initial set of objects. People will end up intuiting that AR works in certain ways “not around trees” for instance, or only in “static scenes”. YouTube – Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Workspaces (PTAM) – extra .
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Augmented reality experiments
An afternoon with Even Westvang and ARtoolkit, the open-source library for augmented reality markers. No printer handy, so we drafted the markers by hand, stencilling them off the screen with a pencil and inking them in, and confused ARtoolkit by drawing them in perspective.