John Pasquarello

Assignment 4: ARemote for VLC

So continuing my trend of connecting things that were never meant to be connected I present the following. It uses Vuforia tracking to show you the content of your VLC playlist. SO you load up VLC with your favorite tunes and then they show up in the app. Additionally you can control the music! It's like a remote control for VLC but it's AR! Magical! Mystical! A-mazing!

Final Project Ideas

I have like 50,000 ideas I haven't decided what I want to run with. Here is all of them.

AR concert of Thomas Tallins "Spem in Alium"

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3FJxDsa-5k
• take that thar song and create a 3D-sonic experience
• That is as you move around you get to see a choir of augmented singers
• The sounds change as you move around
• puts you into like a church with the whole choirs
• https://fortmason.org/event/forty-part-motet/
• like an AR version of this

What is the AR equivalent of short story contests?

• geotagged stories and paragraphs
• image raged paragraphs
• virtual geocaching
• user submitted ar mysteries

Finding A new way to experience info about the real world

• exposes stuff like weird subway facts
• infrastructure history
• wikipediAR

AR as a way to experience digital and analog mysteries

• numbers station beacons
• pirate radio becons

ARf (an augmented pet robot!!)

• A little robit that rolls around and can grab stuf
• The robit knows where it is via a live Tango room analysis
• Tango is essentially RCing the bot
• The tango ALSO overlays an AR character onto the bot
• Picture this: pet robot + AR pet

CellulAR ARtamata

• An AR implementation of Cellular Autamata
• The whole world is a massive Conway's grid and you can see the cells moving across the sky (or something)

Location DJ

• the whole world gets covered in "songs"
• when you tune in you "vote" for a song.
• what you hear is weighted total of all the songs. it changes as listeners move around

Assignment 3: WikipediAR

So, in this assignment I don't have the furthest or best augments. But I definitely do have the largest number of augments! I'd estimate I have millions, yes millions of POIs in my layer. How did I achieve such insanity? I simply connected all of wikipedia's geo-tagged articles into my layer. When you view it you'll find that it always shows the 5 nearest wikipedia articles floating off in the distance.
Full disclosure: I didn't use the phpMyAdmin, or mySQL or anything. I wrote my own server code in Ruby with sinatra and a whole pile-o-JSON.

Assignment 2: Augmented Print Media

For this assignment I Augmented the NYC Subway Map!! I added in abandoned tunnels and stations with links to informational articles. I included lots of abandoned stations, parts of stations, uncompleted work. Even som interesting non-subway items. This all stems out of my interest in transit infrastucture!

See a video here:

Assignment1: Memory in 3D

For my memory I chose a time I was driving south on I-95. It was about 1/3rd the way through a drive down the entirety of the state of New Jersey. I was near Secaucus at the part we you can just see NYC over the gently rolling hills. I remember not really being able to figure out how I felt in that moment but it was somewhere between terror, and nostalgia.

The assets are from cgtrader and 3D Warehouse. I found my self sort of manipulating a lot odd generic "parts" to make this. I repeated road segments and so on. The car is 2 years off the actual car I was driving, but it is the correct make and model.