Catalogue with digital extensions

The IKEA catalogue grows some digital limbs by using augmented reality.

Via Design Week.

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim.

ARART – Augmented Reality meets high art

The sleek application ARART uses augmented reality to amplify classic artwork.

via Design Boom

Nubot – A Video Chat Robot Doll

Nubot is a doll ready to host smartphone video chats via Skype.

The remote user can control the doll’s body gestures (wave, bow, turn) giving them more of a physical presence.

The folks at Nuuo that developed Nubot use it to have teleconferences between their offices.

We’ve seen a more mobile, albeit less cute, telepresence robot named Texai in the past.

A Grocery Scanner That Recognizes Produce

Toshiba has developed an object scanner designed to speed up the grocery checkout process. The scanner has the ability to recognize produce and even distinguish between varieties of apples.

via laughing squid

A Day Made of Glass Part 2

Corning released a follow up to their ‘A Day Made of Glass’, demoing the future of touchscreen technology.

Here’s Part 1 with 17.5 million views as of this posting:

Augmented City

Keiichi Matsuda imagines what it would be like when digital layers of information converge with the physical environment – no device required. (Best viewed in 3D if you have 3D glasses handy)

An Augmented Reality nod to the (cinematic) past

A number of cool augmented reality apps have sprouted up recently that infuse the modern day street perspective with winks to the past — for instance, the Museum of London’s StreetMuseum app.

A similar app, Augmented Reality Cinema, pulls on the heartstrings of cinephiles, playing scenes from famous movies at the location where they were filmed in London. It’s such a simple idea, but also such a satisfying example of how the mobile technology we carry around with us everywhere can provide playful new ways to see and appreciate our surroundings.

Via Laughing Squid

8-Bit Invader – Video Game Projection Mapping

8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.

via laughing squid
contributed by Sosia Bert

Toronto Tourism Cheating Wall

Toronto Tourism has created a “cheating wall” where visitors can see via video screens into Montreal, and vice versa.

Equipped with video and audio, it’s a live portal enabling people to even chat with their counterparts in the other city.

http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/marketer-news/torontomontreal-go-to-the-wall-in-new-tourism-campaign-28905

Conjure up 3D shapes with your voice

The sound-reactive Konstruct app uses an AR marker to produce virtual 3D sculptures with your iPhone.

http://apps.augmatic.co.uk/konstruct

It seems reminiscent of this project from 2003, a very cool piece visualizing sound in a playful way in the live performance context:

http://thesystemis.com/projects/mesa-di-voce/