Augmented Munich

Recently I posted Pacmanhattan. Forget about it. This is what happens in Munich. By the way: we have more to offer than beer and bretzels. For example a very elaborate research infrastructure for augmented reality…

Motion Capture and Rapid Prototyping

Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space?

Obviously: Yes! Or, let`s say, with a little help from a friend. But besides the small oclusion bugs in the movies, I love the idea of FRONT. Tracking the motions of a customer or visitor and directly translating the scribbles into an object or picture is the essence of intergrating people in a design process. We should think about augmented reality, infrared tracking, combined with a laser sinter …

In other words: I like!

Fake But Fun

Although this has nothing to do with augmented reality it is a nice example how you can integrate and change/augment/pimp the user`s environment captured by a webcam. And how much fun marketing can be.

By the way, on this website you can see how friend Munkey (member of the glorious great white ark team) looks like a human – sorry – apish torch…