Tuesday, October 13, 2015

EPIC -- Qualcom to sell Vuforia!!!???!!!!

It does not get bigger than this!
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/vuforia

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

ARToolKit Emerging AR Developers' Contest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Introducing the ARToolKit Emerging Developers' Contest
We're pleased to announce that the ARToolKit Emerging AR Developers' Contest has officially begun!
This contest is open to anyone over the age of 16 and under the age of 24 by 12/31/2015.
$19,000 in cash prizes will be awarded in three different categories:
  • Mobile applications (iOS, Android, Windows)
  • Desktop applications (Mac, Windows or Linux)
  • ARToolKit for Unity
LEARN MORE
For Official Rules and the Entry form, please visit artoolkit.org
 
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

AugmentedReality ART



Howdy Folks,
Please come out to this years Groundswell at Frederic Church’s Olana State Historic Site next Saturday Sept. 19th 1-5pm and look through my fuzzy ThingOscope.
It will blow your mind. #AugmentedReality

There is a great line up of artists for this one-day event culminating in a performance by New Orleans own Quintron and his Weather Warlock at 4pm.
…artists will reflect on and react to Olana and its integral viewshed as an ambitious and early environmental work.

Check it out.
Tickets and info here.
Support local radio WGXC.

Hope to see you there.

*** Also coming up is the new Builders Association Xtra-multi media performance Elements of Oz opening Sept. 26 - Oct. 4 ! More info soon… #AR

John

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Jeremy Bailey is teaching the Mobile AR Grad Class this Fall- You can sit in!!

Jeremy Bailey is teaching the Mobile AR Grad Class this Fall- You can sit in!!
Friday 2-5, IDM 
Also Mark has reserved the motion capture room on Fridays so if you want to use it please talk to Mark. Priority goes to current students. 
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DM-GY 6133 MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY STUDIO

This course examines the affect of augmented reality [AR] on our bodies. Augmented reality is changing the way we understand our world in relationship to software by overlaying our physical reality with real-time, interactive digital experiences. Augmented reality has traditionally focused on the ways in which software might adapt our physical environment but this class will focus on how it affects our bodies – our behaviours and our identities. The body will be examined as both a software interface and a mutable object, capable of taking on new forms and capabilities. Students will gain a strong understanding of both the theory and technology necessary to create innovative experiences that push our collective understanding of the body as software. 

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Call for Submissions

Simulacra, by Karina Smigla-Bobinski - CURRENTS 2015

Currents New Media Festival

Call for Submissions for our 2016 program!

The 7th Annual Santa Fe International New Media Festival will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA June 10th – June 26, 2016.

Deadline for Submissions: November 15, 2015
Submission Guidelines

CURRENTS’ curators look for the unique ways artists use technology as a tool for expression and communication, and ways that scientists, programmers and developers are integrating the arts and aesthetics into their explorations and projects.

The citywide Festival will be held in venues throughout Santa Fe: El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, the Center for Contemporary Arts, the digital dome facility at the Institute for American Indian Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, Peters Projects, Axle Contemporary, Warehouse 21 and the Santa Fe Railyard Plaza.

In addition to exhibitions CURRENTS 2016 offers panel discussions, workshops and multimedia performances. All exhibitions and most events are free to the public.
This years categories are:
  • New Media Installation
  • Outdoor Architectural Mapping and New Media Installations
  • Single Channel Video and Animation
  • Multimedia Performance
  • Fulldome
  • Experimental or Interactive Documentary
  • Web Art, Art Gaming, Mobile Device Apps
  • Oculus Rift
  • Robotics
  • 3D Printing
  • Interactive Installations for Children
Partner calls:
Axle Contemporary
New Media New Mexico

Friday, July 17, 2015

Jul GDG Meetup: Google Cloud Spin, VR & Project Tango

This looks like fun!

NYC-GDG
Added by Nitya Narasimhan
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
5:30 PM
Google Chelsea Market Office
75 Ninth Ave, Floor 2
New York, NY 10017

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

An Open-Source Guide to Help You Build Your Own Graffiti Drone

ARTICLES

An Open-Source Guide to Help You Build Your Own Graffiti Drone

KATSU's drone in a NYC subway. (via icarusone.com)
Katsu’s Icarus One drone in a New York City subway. (via icarusone.com)
Artist Katsu has been working hard at extending the language of public mark making, and his latest experiments have been drone-based. Long known for his distinctive, large-scalefire extinguisher tags that trail across whole walls, his spray-painting flying machines are the latest evolution of his interest in “things that can make marks,” he tells Hyperallergic.
Icarus One (via icarusone.com)
Icarus One (via icarusone.com)
“It must come from a childhood spent drawing, making my own fireworks, trespassing, and living in video games,” he says. “Like the video game, the drone offers an unusual flesh-and-blood experience. It feels real, it feels right. Like an expansion pack for my body. It probably has a little to do with the looming singularity. Drones will replace us in the physical space. They’ll make art and get high and fix the environment. I hope.”
Named after the Greek mythological figure who flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax, Icarus One is the “world’s first open-source paint drone.” A page of instructions on the project’s website offers schematics to 3D-print your own parts, links to places to buy necessary elements, and even the option to buy one fully assembled.
Katsu's Dronescape at Coney Art Walls (photo courtesy the artist)
Katsu’s Dronescape at Coney Art Walls (photo courtesy the artist)
The artist most recently used his specially designed drone to paint a “dronescape” atConey Art Walls in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood. The result is a simple and moody landscape on a handball wall that consists of a lightly dusted blue sky and hazy green hills. “The series of paintings I am making now reflects this very short period of time before drones are able to paint like printers,” he says. “It’s the beauty in simplicity and crudeness. Like the beauty in a child’s drawing.”
Katsu foresees a central role for drones in the “new post-human art” environment. “These are our new limbs, the internet, the smartphone, the drone …. It’s only in its infancy but the Icarus drone will eventually open the doors to precision drawing and painting on a scale and speed like we’ve never experienced.”
Icarus One painting the Dronescape at Coney Art Walls (image courtesy the artist)
Icarus One painting the Dronescape at Coney Art Walls (image courtesy the artist)
He sees his work with drones as a type of “daydreaming with technology. A weird subconscious space where vandalism takes you. The euphoric feeling of marking things …. For me the drone raises the issue of authorship and anonymity in art and graffiti. A feeling of privacy. Imagine drones anonymously drawing abstract works on walls around the city. Or vandals using them with programmed missions. Drones that are untraceable to owners. Drones without identities. Cyber crimes in the physical.”
A detail of Icarus One painting on a wall (image via icarusone.com)
A detail of Icarus One painting on a wall (image viaicarusone.com)
He’s already working on the next generation of Icarus with his friend Maddy Varner, which, he explains, will have “eyes.”
The implication of the Icarus drone is that the function of the artist will eventually be automated after the right program or algorithm is created to propagate her or his ideas and designs.
“[The drone project] hasn’t changed me as an artist. It has however mutated my perception of self,” he says. “I see my reflection phone in hand, drone in hand (or on back). I feel I have reach. My drone paintings can take larger form — 100-foot, shit, 300-foot-long paintings.”
You have to wonder if Katsu’s evolving family of drones, like their namesake, will overstep their limitations. The Greek legend recounts the tale of a giddy Icarus who, overcome by hubris, flew too close to the sun and melted the wax of his wings before plunging into the sea to his death. Considering the illegality of graffiti in most cities and increasingly stringent regulation of drone usage, it’s not hard to imagine the penalties that spray-painting drones could rack up.
“The drone paintings are a look into the science of painting, the logic of it,” Katsu says. “Drones are used as expendable replacements for people. I think that this project gives them a new meaning. It gives them a certain warmth you can commend. It also gives them a warmth you want to beat, arrest, and punish.”