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The sensitive reciprocity between visitor and space is visualized by interactively animating the existing architectural geometry. Seismographic oscillations produced by the visitor of the space get amplified and every step causes striking movements of the ambient itself. This map of oscillation gets amplified and transferred into a visible real-time animation that projects the animated edges of the building geometry on itself. The space visibly moves and becomes both interactive toy and interface.

The headset is equipped with a sensor system that can couple the exact position of the user in reality with previously designed imagery. On the display built into the headset, a combination between the real world and the virtual-constructed world becomes visible.The virtual world corresponds with the existing environment through a number of clearly marked reference points, such as walls, pillars and doors. Without movement, the player remains in reality and there is no possibility to take part in the game. Movement and game progression results in the manipulation of the existing space that in the long run will transform into a virtual environment. In the most extreme case, the representation of the existing space will be completely replaced with a new and unknown world.

The result is a game of light and dark. On and off. Present and absent. Virtual and real. A binary system made to measure for the digital age. The age where light does not mean anything without the reference to dark, and ‘on’ does not mean anything without ‘off’. Where the present always refers to the absent. Where you cannot see what is virtual without reality. Together they form one reality: the space, the map, the plan in which we are.

For the groundbreaking of the new Film Museum site in Amsterdam Overhoek I was asked by Wieden + Kennedy to develop an augmented projection to dynamically unveil a five meter long sand sculpture of the future building. Working with Emily Gobeille we developed a two minute animation that unveiled the building in a series of stages that highlighted both the architectural elements of the building as well as giving a preview of what people would experience inside.

This work is constituted by a white pedestal on which there stands an LCD colour monitor connected to computing machinery by a cable running through the pedestal. The viewer of this work picks up and holds this monitor in his hands. The screen shows a representation of the pedestal with a computer-generated image of a golden calf on top. By moving the monitor around the actual pedestal the viewer can examine this golden calf from above and below and all sides. Thus the monitor functions like a window that reveals a virtual body apparently located physically in the real space.

AntiVJ has performed in the Cathedral of Breda. For this new creation the organ acts as a central part to both the projections and the music. Key events of the history of the cathedral will be explored in a metaphoric way.

A live building? Enhanced architecture? For one week, GrrrrrridWave gave the METAVILLA installation, in the French Pavilion of the 10th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, a new virtual skin. The Metavilla structure was entirely remapped in 3d.

The real world and 3D world collide in the interactive clip that features a Mayer hologram performing the song — guitar in hand — in a virtual living room. Viewers using the AR technology can choose the way they want to see the video. Zoom in close so John’s lamp comes on, spin the room around, or take a look from afar so you can see where the floorboards end. It’s a new wave of technology Mayer is excited to introduce to music fans.

Part virtual sculpture, part instrument, the piece responds to the theme of bridges by creating a virtual version which is fully responsive to physical movement. Ignis, fatuus, tacnode connects an abstract 3D accordion through using ambient oscillating sound design and enticing graphics for a playful and radical experience.

Hand sketching is used here as a natural way for creating Augmented Reality mechanical experiments.

During a cold week in February, armed with several high power lasers, two hardcore projectors and a camper van, the Graffiti Research Lab and I went about turning the back of a large office building in Rotterdam into a massive laser-tagable space. Writers from all over Europe came down to have a go at writing their tags 140 feet high. Kids, old people and random members of the public all enjoyed being able to write messages on a building which could be seen across the whole city.

Futoroscope, a French amusement park, recently introduced Total Immersion's technology in their new dark ride « The Future is Wild ». The goal was to insert Computer Graphics animals that will be living in millions of years from now, into different envionmental sets. In addition each scenario is enhanced with several interactions between the audience and the animals occuring in real time.

You can choose from 35 different Sasquatch animations and add them to a timeline and record your interaction with the Sasquatch through an intuitive and easy to use drag and drop interface.

This videoinstallation consist in a long chair video projected in a true scene, no manipulation recorded.

A 3-dimensional model of the Market Hall ("Markthal") in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, displayed on top of its construction site, through the Layar Reality browser. Rotterdam is the Dutch capital of modern architecture. The latest eyecatching project by Provast is the construction of the Market hall, a U-shaped building designed by renowned architects MVRDV. Completion is planned for 2014, but visitors and inhabitants can already see how the Market Hall looks like, simply by pointing their phone at its construction site. The 3D model enables the visitor to walk around the building and look inside - as if it was already there.