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February 2012

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James Alliban On Augmenting The Future Of Art →

Great discussion of augmented reality and art from James Alliban, complete with a nice roundup of videos!

“So, what happened to augmented reality? I don’t think it’s really gone anywhere...”

– Evan Selleck, PhoneDog

The musician in me is loving this. Using a Kinect Hack to allow kids to control an orchestra! The BBC has collaborated with magneticNorth to create Maestro, an interactive installation that lets children conduct the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the Manchester International Festival. Maestro was developed using Microsoft Kinetic technology and lets the audience control the tempo and dynamic of...

Futurama spoofs Minority Report

The latest episode of Futurama had some awesome movie homages, including Police Academy and… everyone’s favorite: Minority Report!

“Augmented reality will liberate space. It will change how we see it, how we...”

– Maarten Lens Fitzgerald, founder of Layar, at TED Global

anewformoflife: Augmented Reality: Peeling Layers of Space Out of Thin Air For more information email architecture [at] artomi.org, visit artomi.org (via http://turbulence.org/blog)

This will be seriously cool when it becomes real-time. Laan Labs has created a demo that displays 3D imaging recorded using a Kinect in augmented reality on an iPad. And of course they go right to the “you’re my only hope” Star Wars reference. Just imagine the live video chat functionality once it can process and display live data, not recorded data.