Cool Hunting
| 12 August 2004view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Augmented Reality via Projection
by Josh Rubin
The Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) has combined RFID, photo sensors and portable projectors to make a goggle free augmented reality system. Ok, this time in plain english... it's a flash light that shows you information about whatever the light is shining on. Currently being demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2004, it's intended use is for inventory tracking, but the possibilities are pretty far reaching.
Tongari-kun ( Mr. Pointy )
by Josh Rubin
I wish I could say "I'm so over Takashi Murakami!" Commercialization makes the world go round, but hasn't he taken it too far? Maybe. Maybe-not. The fact of the matter is that I continue to be delighted by the things he does. Tongari-kun ( Mr. Pointy ) is a 28 foot sculpture installed at Rockefeller Center Plaza thru October 2004. The ability for his work to scale in both size and format is one the things I'm most impressed with.
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