Markerless vs. Marker Based Augmented Reality - AppReal
New advances in the mobile hardware and software technologies led to the recent introduction of markerless augmented reality. This approach eliminated the need for 3D object tracking systems, overcoming the interactivity limitations marker-based augmented reality placed on the range of images encapsulated within the markers.
All this after watching the first episode of Planet of the Apps. I know so little of the industry but this proves to be quite the episode long education. Plus, how can you not listen to the wit of the man himself Gary Vee. Read more about Markerless VR in the link below.
Most bizarrely photographed architecture projects
Juergen Teller got everyone's attention when he posed naked on a donkey, but he isn't the only one presenting unconventionally shot architectural photography. We put a spotlight on 10 of the most bizarrely shot projects. While restrained compositions often make for beautiful architectural photography, it's the touch of playfulness that made these project so memorable. Concrete
Source: 10 of the most bizarrely photographed architecture projects
DEEP WEB - kinetic audiovisual installation and performance
Deep Web is a monumental immersive audiovisual installation and live performance created by light artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. Presented in enormous pitch dark indoor spaces, Deep Web plunges the audience into a ballet of iridescent kinetic light and surround sound.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Immerse yourself in this powerful multi-screen video installation by the award-winning Thai filmmaker
Inspired in part by surrealism, Weerasethakul’s films present a world that is distinctly mutable and elusive, evoking the artist’s interest in the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, whereby players add words or images sequentially to a sentence or diagram without knowing what came before, so as to construct a fanciful, multi-layered scenario.
Day to Night: All Photoshop | Visualizing Architecture
This is and effective tutorial. The wet ground effect is hard to beat.
Unreal Engine 4 - »Infiltrator« - Realtime Tech-Demo zur UE4
Inspirational. Where architecture visualizations peaks with gaming.
The Art of Rendering
I remember seeing the first demo of GPU rendering before it really started to go mainstream, and my first thought was this is going to change everything. Specifically what the “purported” speed increases would mean to our business.
Source: The Art of Rendering: How Technology Will Revolutionize Architectural Representations - Architizer
Guardians of Time: Mystic Sculpture by Manfred Kielnhofer | Urban Ghosts
Modern humanoid sculptures previously reported include the commanding Angel of the North and the divisive iron figures at Crosby Beach near Liverpool. But they don’t come any more mysterious than the Time Guards (or Timeguards) by Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer, which have a habit of appearing abruptly in public places one day and vanishing the next.
LED-lit pigeons illuminate New York skies in art exhibit
Thousands of pigeons with tiny LED lights strapped to their legs swooped through the darkening skies in a jaw-dropping display of beauty, but savvy New Yorkers gazing up at the performance art knew enough to keep their mouths shut.
Source: LED-lit pigeons illuminate New York skies in art exhibit
EMIR TIGREL | UNIT 24
[embed]https://vimeo.com/131866520[/embed]
Source: EMIR TIGREL | UNIT 24
Spaxels - 100 Dancing Drones
Hoertner and his team of 15 people called the drones, “spaxels,” a hybrid of “space pixels.” He said he wanted to show how drones, known to many as weapons, can be used to create beauty and socially meaningful experiences.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-js5zn-I0[/embed]
Experiences not Possessions
"People are becoming really disenchanted with the rental market."
Source: Millennials want experiences not possessions say co-living entrepreneurs
Prism
Each panel of the sculpture presented a different live feed, from transport information from TFL, environmental data from CASA, to live energy usage from Carbon Culture.
Source: Prism | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Augmented City 3D
Pieces of information that swim around us all day
[embed]https://vimeo.com/14294054[/embed]
Source: Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City 3D | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Augmented (hyper)Reality
synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise
[embed]https://vimeo.com/8569187[/embed]
Source: Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop | KEIICHI MATSUDA