My mate Lucy Tcherniak has just mastered her most recent piece of work, for consumer tech giants Philips and their Wi-fi enabled lighting range Hue – which are remote control light bulbs that can augment the mood of a room via your mobile phone: The blurb: Discover just some of the millions of ways to use […]
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Learn Piano through AR
I like this: The Projected Instrument Augmentation system (PIANO) was developed by pianists Katja Rogers and Amrei Röhlig and their colleagues at the University of Ulm in Germany. A screen attached to an electric piano has colourful blocks projected onto it that represent the notes. As the blocks of colour stream down the screen they […]
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Tagged Amrei Röhlig, augmentation, augmented reality, classical music, colour, education, feedback, Florian Schaub, instrument, Katja Rogers, keyboard, mixed reality, new, piano, play, potential, screen, stream, success, teaching, university, users, view, visual
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Programmed To Love
Two robots, Vincent & Emily, are connected to each other as if deeply in love: where at the heights of romance, every motion, utterance, or external influence is shared in an acutely empathic, highly attuned ’emotional’ response: The creation of German artists Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl, the robots take in sound and motion data–from […]
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Carolin Liebl, creation, gallery, human, interaction, love, motion, Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, open, robotics, robots, romance, simple, sound, texture
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Fingers
[box]This post originally appeared on the FTMF.info planning blog.[/box] What does the word ‘digital’ mean to you? dig·it·al /?d?d??tl/ adv – of or pertaining to a digit or finger resembling a digit or finger manipulated with a finger or the fingertips: a digital switch displaying a readout in digital form: a digital speedometer having digits or […]
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Tagged action, body, computer, data, digital, electronic, illustration, keyboard, problem, screen, technology, touch, virtual, watch, world, youtube
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Aurasma vs. Blippar
I’ve written about Augmented Reality extensively in the past, but since the days of immersing myself in the purely theoretical potential for the medium, a few key players have rooted themselves in a very commercial reality that is now powering the fledgling industry. And while B2B-focused vendors such as ViewAR remain behind the scenes, the […]
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Tagged Academic, Advertising, augmented reality, Aurasma, autonomy, Autonomy Corporation, Blippar, business, campaign, commercial, companies, core business, creative, fledgling industry, found, free, future, hardware, Hewlett-Packard, HP, install, medium, Mobile, mobile chipset, open, open source, open source software, pattern recognition systems, potential, power, products, provocations, qualcomm, reading, reality, research, software, technological power, users, viewar
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