Monday, January 18, 2010

Augmented Reality Platform Covers Building Exterior

Thanks PSFK for this. I know there is some much hype about the AR space these days, a lot of it unfounded, but the sheer scale of this just makes it incredible. Wonder if i can get a client to turn a whole building into a comms channel?

Augmented Reality Platform Covers Building Exterior

Located in the shopping district surrounding Tokyo’s Tachikawa Station, the exterior of the mall-like N Building has been covered with QR code data so that store information can be captured from street level. The design teams at Qosmo and Teradadesign Architects have also put together an iPhone app that gathers real-time information and conversations within the building through an AR-like interface.

Watch a video of the project below:

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.



Predicitions for 2010

There are so many floating around, lots of them contradictory, that i thought rather than add to the view points out there (i'm more of a everything is so possible i'll just take it as it comes along sort of a guy i guess), i'd just share the most interesting and concise i've read so far:

Thanks Futurelab: LOOK FORWARD

Nothing earth shattering (not many changes are these days. Seems we live in incremental times), but just some solid ideas on where things may be headed.

Touch screen interaction goes 3D

Older... but love the possibilities of this tech.