Tag Archives: augmented reality

NYC BigApps: The Final Results


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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AR Ink

“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…

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SARA: The First Mobile 3D Architecture App


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…

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Big Brother Is Tickling You

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…

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Twitter’s Geodata Revolution and the Soft City

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…

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Graffiti’s Augmented Reality App for Restaurant Recommendations

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…

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Find Your Way Underground With AR

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

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Tag the World, Share Spaces!

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,…

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