Augmented Reality to Inspire Creative Writing

I wanted to inspire my students to be creative and have fun with their learning. In years past I have always struggled to make my writing lessons fun and engaging, yet productive. This is year I decided to introduce writing with the help of my favorite tech tool: Augmented Reality! I gave the students a choice to pick one of the 10 different coloring pages from the app ColAR Mix, and use the image on the page as a prompt to write a creative story.

Two Guys and Some iPads

McDonald's: Happy Table

AIREAL creates haptic feedbak

Like most of the lab's experiments this has been in the works for awhile, and the chances of it being used outside of Disneyworld anytime soon are probably slim. AIREAL will be on display at SIGGRAPH in Anaheim from Sunday to Wednesday this week.



Disney Research's AIREAL creates haptic feedback out of thin air

Authoring Basic ARIS Objects

VR-brillene lar deg leke med virkeligheten

En av de største Kickstarter-suksessene den siste tiden, VR-brillene Oculus Rift, har tatt publikum med storm. Vi har også fått muligheten til å prøve dem, og kan bekrefte at de virkelig har livets rett.

Nå seiler et nytt par høyteknologiske briller opp på Kickstarter-topplisten som enda en suksess-kandidat, men med en annen innfallssvinkel. Brillene heter Meta og baserer seg på såkalt «augmented reality»-teknologi, eller «utvidet virkelighet» som det heter på godt norsk.

Brillene, som altså er gjennomsiktige, setter brukeren i stand til å se både virkeligheten og projiserte virtuelle objekter samtidig. Man kan fritt flytte og manipulere de virtuelle objektene ved hjelp av finger- og håndbevegelser som snappes opp av et dybdekamera.

Kilde: Hardware.no

Augmented Reality Art

GravitySpace

  Hasso-Plattner-Institut: GravitySpace

Magnetic Appcessories

Tangible interface designer and inventor Andrea Bianchi, along with his colleague, Ian Oakley (University of Madeira / Carnegie Mellon Europe), have come with a novel approach to interacting with a mobile device. Using the magnetometer built into most modern smartphones, Bianchi and Oakley have created a series of tangible user interfacedemonstrations that go beyond what’s achievable with capacitive touch displays.

MAKE | Magnetic Appcessories with Andrea Bianchi

Kinetic Rain

Berlin firm ART+COM just completed this stunning new kinetic sculpture in Terminal 1 of Changi Airport in Singapore. Kinetic Rain consists of two sets of 608 suspended raindrops made from lightweight aluminum covered in copper which are raised and lowered in a 15-minute computationally designed choreography controlled from motors embedded in the ceiling. ART+COM created a similar though somewhat smaller piece for the BMW Museum in 2008.
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Projects inspired by ‘Immaterials: Light painting WiFi’

'Immaterials: Light painting WiFi' has spread across the internet and become a popular cultural phenomena over the last year. Today I want to write about a couple of other kinds of impact that the film and the visualisations have created. We have observed the concepts, arguments and visual language being taken up and interpreted as new and derivative work by other practitioners. This points to a different sort of cultural propagation: the spectacle of the film created a momentum that has driven others to re-interpret, re-create and extend the work in many different directions.

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