Design-based light recipe that shines vertically across 20,000m2 of farmland with leek (Allium porrum).
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The electric car produced by Audi uses digital matrix LED headlights to project visuals on the road and other surfaces.
A 3D scan or model can be sent as a gift to the box, which starts glowing upon receiving it. Open the box and view the gift through a handheld device.
Someone remote sends a picture from their daily life, the picture appears pixelated in a frame, needs to be touched to reveal itself fully.
Each swing triggers musical notes when used, but certain melodies appear only when the three swings in a group move in a synchronized way.
Turn the steps of the staircase into a piano keyboard and have each step play its corresponding note when stepped upon. The aim is to motivate people to use the stairs rather than the escalator.
Projection on a controlled fountain waterscreen of full-length 260m. Use your smartphone as a fishing reel and join forces with other participants, spin you reel round and round to haul in a fish. If you are successful the fish appears in your smartphone.
Twelve large blocks of ice cast off from the Greenland ice sheet are harvested from a fjord outside Nuuk and presented in a clock formation in a prominent public place. The work raises awareness of climate change by providing a direct and tangible experience of the reality of melting arctic ice. Ice Watch has been installed in two locations so far.
Augmented reality game where users create, customize and grow their own virtual creatures and interact with them on daily basis.Victor Weber wears this "nano retina technology" in his eyes and through that he plays with his beast and his little girl Anna plays with her pet Blooby.
Navigate the slopes, record videos and take pictures and interact with fellow riders, even play games.
Use your smartphone to catch digital Pokémon's that can appear in your surroundings. It has an AR mode that lets you see the Pokémon placed on the physical environment through the camera and get easier to catch.
A designated wall in your home where you display your personal belongings and memories is also a place for a window into your distant family’s living space. As you approach the wall and start interacting with the person on the other side, the projection view expands and takes up the whole wall.
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.
Context switching is very costly from a cognitive point of view, however especially in open office settings, it is hard to know when someone is in the middle of something or if it's OK to ask them questions. Here is an indicator light, showing if someone can be disturbed or not. The light can show different colours indicating "busyness level". It can either be controlled manually or linked to applications on your computer.
By integrating displays thoughtful into cities and matching their purpose with exactly the needed solutions, they become ambient. Not using (moving) screens supports the ambient character.
Overlaying a suitably abstracted rendering of people's traces gives a sense of where the action is. Data from your friends yields a socially grounded heat map, whereas a broad data collection provides more of a general overview.
