During Arbor Day Weekend QR codes were seeded across New York City’s Central Park, transforming it into a mobile interactive experience. The QR codes we formerly used to…
Posted in Headline | Also tagged ar, central park, city, digital, innovation, landscaping, manhattan, new york, nyc, park, qr, Technology |
SixthSense presents the narrow escape for old media. As digital spaces seem to take over a lot of functions that used to be present in…
On Saturday the 24th of April the first Augmented Reality flashmob will take place at the Dam Square in Amsterdam, organized by artist Sander Veenhof. Participants…
Within Pop-Up City circles, one could consider me the critical reviewer, grumbling in the background, pointing at the more ethical dimension of some of the things posted here (see my…
Last October I wrote about some initiatives that aim to improve the so-called user-generated city. One of those initiatives is the New York BigApps competition,…
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“I know, you’re probably sick of AR this and AR that by now, and the technology is only in its infancy, but this?”
Today I bumped into this article on…
Many analysts and ‘trendwatchers’ believe Augmented Reality will become the big hit of 2010, but I have some doubts. Technological determinists tend to overlook the risk…
I just found out about a great public art project by London-based artist and interaction designer Chris O’Shea. He uses a giant LED screen to create…
Two days ago Twitter platform developers announced to launch a new, revolutionary component in Twittersphere: location. A geodata team is working on an API that makes it possible to map…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged constructivism, geodata, geography, geotagging, internet, location, soft city, Technology, twitter, ubicomp, urbanism |
One thing is for sure: Augmented Reality (AR) is changing the urban realm and how the city is being perceived. Sometimes we write about neat ideas in the…
We all know Augmented Reality (AR) is the next big thing. Enhanced by the iPhone’s 3.0 OS and the iPhone 3GS, AR startups, such as Layar…
The concept of space becomes more and more diffuse in the digitally oriented Western society. The emergence of the Internet already had a tremendous reflexion on physical space. For example,…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Also tagged ar, camera, city, gps, iphone, physical, public space, sharing, social, software, space, tagging, Technology, trendwatching, virtual, web 2.0 |
