[-empyre-] Augmented reality as public art, mobile location based monuments and virtual memorials

Alan Sondheim sondheim at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 08:45:58 EST 2011


Is there the possibility of live AR? - or using bvh files - similar to their
Second Life application? So that AR can be real-time interactive? I'm naive
here, but it occurs to me that placement of virtual objects is similar to a
kind of modernist phenomenology - here at X is Y, etc. I can imagine
performance/body art for example occurring in front of someone with an
iphone; for that matter, I can imagine the iphone viewer interacting with
the performance. So in your description below, this is the case?

Could you explain what you mean by the "Ontology of AR" and why one needs a
vocabulary of gestures/movements as starting point?

Thanks, Alan

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, gh hovagimyan <ghh at thing.net> wrote:

> One way around the proprietory lock I've been using is the Kinect camera
> hack. There's an open TUIO driver that allows for connection to any of a
> number of  free software environments including PD.  The kinect gives you
> the interactivity and live video. Using PD gives you the GEM window with
> openGL rendering or sound or sensor interface.  The larger question is what
> do you want to do.  The most obvious is to start with a vocabulary of  human
> gestures and movements as the starting point.   Then there is the discussion
> of where the AR event takes place (on screen, projection, goggles or Real
> 3D). This reminds of early body art and performance art. Insofar as a simple
> art system can produce tremendous results.  I find it sort of interesting
> that there is potential for a rigorous discussion on the Ontology of AR and
> changing human techno-consciousness.
>
> On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Rob Myers wrote:
>
>  The problem is that these are currently immature products relative to
>> previous AR technology. They are also proprietary software, which limits
>> artists ability to address their limitations.
>>
>
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