Augmented Hand Painting

"half the mess, half the stress"

This idea could be a side project of the 'Wall Widget' idea discussed earlier, the user would take a special kind of glove that would allow their hand movements to be tracked and would be able to write on the walls with their hands or fingers and create their own art.

It could also be used to create lifelike objects in the digital reality which would make it appear as if the objet is alive and is on front of the user when really it's not. Interaction with the art would be minimal because it is not a part of the real world however, the user will be able to add, delete and edit as appropriate.

The following is a example of this effect created with motion technology:

This technology allows the artist to be in the same reality as its artwork and therefore it is a representation of itself in its own way, also the use of a glove not a stick could make for better artwork.

Augmented Pool

The Gadget Show / The Gadget Show: Season 13 - Episode 8

Season13 Episode8

22 Mar 2010

Compass technology

Seen on the apple iPhone.

A built-in digital compass that works just like a magnetic needle compass can let you know which way you’re facing, digital compass rotates maps to always match the direction you’re facing. You can also use the compass on its own.

A magnetometer that works as a digital compass will enable the iPhone to determine which direction it is being held in. This will allow useful things like turn-by-turn navigation (time to ditch that satnav?) and ‘augmented reality’ apps that superimpose info about a location onto a camera view or Google Street View image.

Wall Widgets

My idea is to have a bare room with nothing in it, or at least until you activate the augment. The augment can be any type of digital information basically as if the wall is a screen. The client would predefine the living environments to suit theirself, think about it, you could have any view on your wall or any image anywhere with no effort.

How the room would normally look:

Augmented:

Similar idea to the screen used in Minority Report where Tom Cruise uses gloves:

Use

This technology can be used to create a mixture of reality and virual reality allowing the user to be in a reality unknown to their own.

This also allows the user to have more information than usual.

Newest iPhone App

Newest iPhone app is a camera installment that lets you move the camera around via cumpus technology and shows londons underground to the user depending where the camera is pointed. This means the user can see more than the naked eye and can position themselves to be where they need to be more easily.

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fZk0HaIs4s

Augmented Reality

What is it?

Augmented reality is a concept that combines reality with a virtual reality superimposed on top of it to become one augmented reality. The first time I ever saw augmented technology, although not a live production but still the idea, was in a Star Wars film where C3PO and Chewbacca are playing a projected game on a table and Chewy is a sore loser so the robot says the extract underneath. Two realities becoming one has been seen in many films however the interaction, technology and user participation has been minimal up until lately.

"Let the Wookie win."