Canonical Examples

Augmented car window

Published

Context

A traveler in a taxi, or on any other public commuting ride to get familiar with a new place.

Design concept

While you are taking a taxi towards your destination and you are casually looking through the window, relevant information will be displayed.

Experiential qualities and related concepts

Hybrid, locative serendipity, personal,  trustworthy.

Augmentation modality

Visual.

Technical options

Large transparent displays
HoloLens
See-through cellphone
(Positioning tech required)

Prototyping techniques

Bodystorming
Wizard of Oz
Video scenario
QR codes + cellphones
VR

Source

Microsoft’s 2019 Future Vision video, (2005).
(Envisioning video timestamp: 00:00 – 00:38)

 

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Augmented facade

Passage leading towards Stadsmuseum Norrkoping has large displays of old factory pictures. If the reality is enhanced by cranking sounds of factory tools, digital graphics as short movie clips activated on interaction within close proximity, projected pattern appears and form illuminated floral scroll. Factory chimney blows puff of smoke cloud as visitor interacts within the zone.

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Treatment of phantom limb pain

By augmenting the missing limb visually and using “myoelectric sensors connected to the stump of the missing limb, the patient could control the virtual arm with brain impulses, exactly as the brain controls limbs in the real world.”