Augmented Reality: its promises and shortcomings for architects

AR as a medium for representation of architectural form Ole Bouman showed SARA the AR-app that the NAi is currently working on. It is a highly interesting and ambitious example of AR as a platform for architecture, or AR as a medium to showcase projects: with SARA, an urban augmented reality application, [...]

Apple Ad: Meet iPad

Meet Apple’s magical and revolutionary new iPad — the best way to experience the web, email, photos, books, video, and more. Go to apple.com/ipad to learn more.

New smartphone tour in historical Leiden in Holland

Watch and listen to episodes from the history of Leiden. You can click on any of the locations to find out more about them. Most of these places are on the Leiden Loop tour. You can also find these locations on the map. All of the physical information panels will be placed on the route [...]

Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games

Jesse Schell’s talk about the future of game design as it invades the real world is just astounding. If you do experience design of any kind it’ll be the most valuable and entertaining 20 minutes you’ll spend all week. via fox @ fury.

Ontwerpen voor Android door Inge Kuijper

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Experiencing Abstract Information

How can you increase the immersion of data? The bachelor thesis „Experiencing Abstract Information“ by Jochen Winker and Stefan Kuzaj introduces theoretical principles and shows them with some interactive examples.
There are four essential parts in making abstract information experiencable: information itself, relevant senses, fitting emotion and a direct reference of the presentation to the information. [...]

Making Low Cost 3D Video for your Museum

A low cost apparatus for capturing stereoscopic video is described and footage from the apparatus is presented in anaglyph form.
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NIEUW: Een Nederlandse versie van het populaire Museummedia op Twitter

Reeds meer dan 2.500 musea, culturele instellingen, en geïnteresseerden volgen http://twitter.com/museummedia. Nu is er ook een puur Nederlandstalige versie met vooral nieuws uit Nederland en Vlaanderen: http://twitter.com/museummedia_NL. Aangeraden wordt om beide accounts te volgen indien u op de hoogte wil blijven van actuele ontwikkelingen op het gebied van (nieuwe) media en musea. Voor suggesties, opmerkingen [...]