Wow, this is just beautiful! This installation art piece by Joon Y. Moon, an MFA students at Parsons, combines killer looks with intuitive high tech. Take some time to see what the installation does, it really is a sophisticated piece of AR.

via Games Alfresco

The coolest aspect of the installation is that it is not immediately clear which parts of the machine are digital. The trees, the birds and the people are clearly digital augments, but what’s…

Part of the research behind Archadia was done from the offices of the Waag Society. This is an extremely inspiring place to be at, especially if you are interested in technology, media and social innovation. One of the biggest reasons for this is the amazing group of people who work at the Waag, who triggered my inspiration and imagination with their enthusiasm and their fast, creative and open minds. I interviewed several of them and these interviews will be…

A close-up of one of the maps I created during my master thesis at the TUDelft has been selected as bookcover “Border Conditions“, by Marc Schoonderbeek, which is the Archined book of the month.

“Border Conditions presents the initial results from the research and design studio of the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. The book offers a collection of essays and experimental architecture projects that emanated from research into the spatial…

Another great movie by Keiichi Matsuda, the maker of Domestic Robocop. He’s back and this time it’s in stereoscopic 3D, so for best results watch it through oldskool red and cyan 3D glasses. If you don’t have these at your disposal you’re best of at Youtube by selecting the “left image” option from the 3D menu

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Keiichi has a clear…

This is big, and I just found out about it today. The UK government, one of the first governments worldwide to put open government data on the agenda, has released the Combined Online INformation System, or Coins.  Basically this is a huge online dataset in which the government shows every aspect, to the tiniest of details, of their expenditure.

With Coins everybody can dive into them and monitor how the UK budget is being spent.…

This edition of  Test_lab, a bi-monthly event by our friends at V2_ featured a selection of freshly graduated artists, architects, and designers from European art and design academies whose projects explore the invisible aspects of our contemporary urban environments. This sounded interesting enough to travel to Rotterdam, where I found out that the event had grabbed a lot of peoples attention: the room was packed.

Let me start of by saying that it was hot. So hot in…

Another company promising real AR-vision: Laster Technologies has started promoting their SmartVision technology, and it has got me excited. This is the first time I see AR goggles with transparent glasses. The goggles themselves are starting to look like normal glasses. The company says they expect to have a consumer product in the next two years. This is one I would love to try.

The ‘Nederlands Architecuurinstituut’ or NAi [transl: Dutch Architecture Institute] faces the possibilities of Augmented Reality head on. Earlier this year they showcased SARA (urban augmented reality application) and now they stepped their game up with UAR¹ (pronounced “you are”). UAR² gives us the possibility to experience alternate realities of Rotterdam: What has been, what will be and what might have been the architectural appearance of the city? Just pick up your (smart)phone, look through…

As ‘mayor’ of ‘De Digitale Stad’ (the ‘Digital City’; DDS) in Amsterdam, Marleen Stikker developed the first free gateway and virtual community on the internet in 1994.

In the same year as the DDS opened, she founded Waag Society: aa medialab developing creative technological applications for societal innovation. Amongst others, Waag Society creates mobile citygames for the youth, develops storytables for the elderly and researches the possibilities for networked performances. Marleen was also at the basis of many organisation,…

In the interview with Claire Boonstra from Layar the idea of Augmented Reality glasses or even contact-lenses was proposed as a certain future. According to Claire the question is not whether we will see immersive AR vision, the question is how soon. It seems she might be right.

While we might still have to wait a little for the contact-lenses, Gizmodo shows us some stuff from ARE 2010, the…