Tag Archives: augmented space

A(n Ever)note from the train

There’s something remarkable about the interaction between man and machine (and vice versa). Marshall McLuhan and Raymond Williams both had their own view in this classic debate about the social shaping of technology versus the technological shaping of society. Beyond man, new media technologies have showed a major influence on the concept of everything physical around us.

Train of thought

Using 3D to ’spicen up’ geographic datavisualization

In the last 30 years advances in computer science and computer graphics have largely contributed to making maps interactive and dynamic. Interactive, computerized maps have the advantage of enabling the user to interact with the display, but are also able to express additional information for the user’s interest (Andrienko & Andrienko, 1999). Still, the emphasis of interactive computerized maps, as…

Augmented reality: the first steps to a society of control?

Layla van Daalen, Chris Hoogeveen, Hanneke Mertens

Every aspect of the world has an extra layer of information. It may not always be obvious, but these extra layers are most certainly present. Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis describe these extra layers as a form of augmented space.  This is an extra layer of information, of data visualization on top of…

Augmented Reality: From Interactive Music Videos to a New World Perspective

In this post I would like to continue on the subject of augmented reality implemented in our daily lives that is brought up bij Kesh.

John Mayer is the first artist that has made an augmented reality videoclip. To start the video you have to download a symbol on your mobile phone which you have…