Re: Wk9 - Translate from the Science Lab to Art
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:18 pm
For my project I am collaborating with the Four Eyes Lab (without their knowledge, mind you) on an artistic endeavor based around Augmented Reality and its unrealized possibilities. Shows like Star Trek and those old X-Men cartoons from the 90's promised us huge holo-deck rooms that would map themselves out into whatever landscape we could scrape from the deepest recesses of our dreaming brains. Well, there is an alternative to holograms- augmented reality.
There are two different interfaces designed for your luxury and comfort, lightweight AR Glasses or the alternative, AR contact lenses, with a microscopic computer in the lens. Wearing these, you will be able to see the first combination digital/physical (to my knowledge) art gallery. To the unequipped eye the gallery space will appear empty, but upon wearing whichever AR interface you chose, you will bear witness to an amazing display of interactive and immersive 2D and 3D artworks.
This is the beauty of augmented reality, lights aren't being projected into a physical space like with holograms. Instead, images are projected onto your eyes but still "mapped" onto a physical space through an interface. Have you ever been told about the rocks you can find on the beach with little holes in them, that if you peek through you can see a magical side of the world? Thats basically what we're offering.
Within our AR lenses, microscopic computers are receiving signals from GPS satellites that allow them to know where you are and map the landscape accordingly with whatever visual imagery and information we want you to see.
Source:
http://ilab.cs.ucsb.edu/index.php/compo ... icle/10/28
There are two different interfaces designed for your luxury and comfort, lightweight AR Glasses or the alternative, AR contact lenses, with a microscopic computer in the lens. Wearing these, you will be able to see the first combination digital/physical (to my knowledge) art gallery. To the unequipped eye the gallery space will appear empty, but upon wearing whichever AR interface you chose, you will bear witness to an amazing display of interactive and immersive 2D and 3D artworks.
This is the beauty of augmented reality, lights aren't being projected into a physical space like with holograms. Instead, images are projected onto your eyes but still "mapped" onto a physical space through an interface. Have you ever been told about the rocks you can find on the beach with little holes in them, that if you peek through you can see a magical side of the world? Thats basically what we're offering.
Within our AR lenses, microscopic computers are receiving signals from GPS satellites that allow them to know where you are and map the landscape accordingly with whatever visual imagery and information we want you to see.
Source:
http://ilab.cs.ucsb.edu/index.php/compo ... icle/10/28