Better than reality

A looping Rube Goldberg machine meets an Arduino-controlled, Pachube-feeded  internet of things ecosystem. Welcome to NABA, where an interactivity course gets an interesting twist, conceiving and producing this prototype. Project goal is to simbolically represent our planet like a fluid interconnected ecosystem. Have a look at the project blog, Interactlaufdinge, for information. More to expect […]

Pure genius, real future. Have a look at SixthSense, a MIT media lab project. Here is what a “wearable gestural interface” looks like. Pranav Mistry, inventor, wearing the markers. Quoting Pattie Maes, “he’s wearing simple marker caps, but if you want a more stylish version you can also paint your nails in different colors” (sorry […]

That’s creepy: Minority Report meets a William Gibson’s dystopic future. House furnishing becomes a surface for the advertising industry, and despite/because of the social-flow-absorbing skills, our Robocop needs help by an encouraging virtual assistant to prepare a cup of tea. See the film, 1.46 min: Here’s some AR screenshots: A gestural tool to reduce advertising […]

Well, nothing. 😥 Great screen? check. Gps? check. Compass? check. mobile internet? check. Camera? fail. A game-changing lap sized computer without a camera? A back & front camera would have been great for AR applications. But wait. what about this? Ladies and Gentleman, at your left the new iPad, at your right Vuzix Wrap 920AR […]

What’s AR got to do with it? In fact, nothing. But have a look at the title of this blog 🙂 “Two weeks” by Grizzly bear, same song, two realities. Spaces and faces. BTW, can you guess which is the official video and which is the “fan video”? Have a good experience in the meanwhile. […]

Yes, that’s pretty old, but it’s been one of the first mainstream applications of marker-based augmented reality. And an impressive one! See this teaser, thanks to the good folks at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners who did the Smart Grid campaign. And try it by yourself at the Smart Grid Website. Don’t forget to print out […]

A wonderful Off Topic to start with. 2010 is the year of the e-book readers (hurry up Apple) and magazine publishers are right now struggling to reinvent themselves on a medium that still doesn’t exist in a mature way. New business models are to be found (still waiting for you, Apple, with a new iTunes […]

This term, “Augmented Reality”, is pretty vague. In fact it’s used for describing different approaches, and even things that with AR have little in common (the term “buzzword” comes in my mind very clearly). So we can think about it as A two-way communication between the virtual and the real world Our digital tools multiply […]

Ronald Azuma (1997)  says that Augmented Reality: combines real and virtual is interactive in real time is registered in 3D Ok, enough academical b**hit. Here’s what we are dreaming about augmented reality since 1982: TRON!