Fühl-o-meter – Public Face

Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.

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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)

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.

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contributed by Sosia Bert

Objects Augmented with Real-Time Contextual Data

DisplayContent is a thought-provoking augmented reality proof of concept to come out of the Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon.

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The Evolution of Mobile

A fun, smaller-scale use of projection mapping done for Vodafone that illustrates the evolution of mobile.

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Video Projection Mapping Makes a Building Sing and Dance

This use of video projection mapping tranforms a building into a twisting, bouncing, dancing machine. It’s also interactive; as audience members direct sounds into microphones, a massive face on the surface of the building appears to sing them.

Created by French architecture firm 1024 Architecture, PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE was featured as part of the Lyon Festival of Lights in 2010.

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3D Fog Display

Osaka University shows off their 3D Multi-viewpoint fog projection display.

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Holographic Pop Star

Taking the sugary fakeness of pop stardom to a new level, Japan’s new holographic pop star Hatsune Miku is a dancing and singing 3D projection with a voice made from a synthesizer.

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VIDEO PROJECTION MAPPING

Video projection mapping transforms the already unusual exterior of Frank Gehry’s IAC building at the Vimeo Festival + Awards in New York.

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Space-bending facade projection

In 2009, Urban Screen and artist Daniel Rossa teamed up to create 555 Kubik, a facade installation meant to transform the way spectators engaged with O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart.”

Exciting to see facade projection made with the building involved in mind.