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Category: Augmented Reality

  • Watch: Light Show in Virtual Club Synced to Light Show in Real Life Club

    This is a crazy cool project that links up the lighting system in a real life venue (San Francisco's venerable DNA Lounge, in this case) to the lighting system in a virtual world. As creator James Baicoianu explains: Controlling lights in a WebXR night club using Chamsys MagicQ, a professional lighting control suite. This lets…

  • Rosie’s Rift Rips a Rift Into Reality

    Rosie Summers recently wandered into a neighborhood park, and casually dropped this black hole into the grass. "Soon as I saw its colossal size in an area of familiarity," she wryly notes, "the fear set in." This rip of existence was made possible through several pieces of technology, and her own artistry:

  • Watch: Mesmerizing Procedural Art Sculpture by Michael Kozlowski

    Mid-afternoon AR visual treat: Procedural artist Michael Kozlowski created this utterly hypnotic video sculpture in Unity with some kind of 3D projection display. I'm reaching out to hopefully know more. Hat tip: William Gibson, who appropriately says just "Whoa" and AR expert Dr. Helen Papagiannis (last on NWN here), who properly pointed us to Kozlowski's…

  • Hit AR Game Company Niantic Partners With Hit Mixed Reality Sleep No More Play Producers

    I have not seen many AR applications recently which struck me as exciting let alone likely to be financially successful, but a recent deal definitely caught my eye: Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs is partnering with Punchdrunk, the UK-based production company behind seminal immersive theater piece Sleep No More. The partnership will see both companies work toward…

  • Watch: Awesome AR App Copies Real World Objects Then Pastes Them as 3D Files Directly Into Photoshop

    4/10 – Cut & paste your surroundings to Photoshop Code: https://t.co/cVddH3u3ik Book: @HOLOmagazineGarment: SS17 by @thekarentopacio Type: Sainte Colombe by @MinetYoann @ProductionTypeTechnical Insights: ↓#ML #AR #AI #AIUX #Adobe #Photoshop pic.twitter.com/LkTBe0t0rF — Cyril Diagne (@cyrildiagne) May 3, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Cyril Diagne, an artist, designer and programmer currently in residency at Google Arts, created this utterly awesome…

  • Magic Leap’s Massive Layoffs Today Telegraphed by Tiny Headset Sales

    It's the worst possible news to happen to the VR/AR industry right now, but also the most unsurprising: Bloomberg reports that half of Magic Leap’s employees were laid off, roughly 1,000 in total. Magic Leap was in the process of exploring a sale, Bloomberg had also reported, one that could value the company at $10 billion. Magic Leap…