Augmented Reality and the Gartner Hype Cycle

With all the current hype surrounding Augmented Reality (AR) I often wonder where we stand, in terms of its overall evolution and logical conclusion. No doubt we will continue to see countless gimmicks but what will happen when we all

Haiti & OSM

The Haitian earthquake on 12th January 2010 was catastrophic in scale, with an estimated 230,000 deaths and 1,000,000 people made homeless. The Haitian Government estimated that 250,000 residential and 30,000 non-residential buildings had either collapsed or been severely damaged. The

City 2.0: An Introductory Guide

I have been sifting through some of the work produced in the final days of my Thesis, in a bid to catch-up and clear something of a backlog. I could not think of a better place to start than with

City 2.0: An Introductory Guide

I have been sifting through some of the work produced in the final days of my Thesis, in a bid to catch-up and clear something of a backlog. I could not think of a better place to start than with

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06/09/2010 / 2 Comments

Street Slide

Street Slide is a recent research project by Microsoft that allows seamless transition between the  360° panoramic  ’bubbles’ already familiar from photographic mapping services such as Google’s Street View and Bing’s Streetside. Similar to the Community Photo Collections project at the University

Lisbon Traffic

Pedro M Cruz has been developing visualisations of Lisbon’s traffic movements over various periods of time. I particularly like this one above, which has been somewhat abstracted, but the overall effect is visually stunning. His Empires Decline animation is also

Dutch Power

Anonymous utility buildings dot our cities, keeping the other buildings humming – but they’re almost never part of the aesthetic fabric of the urban scene. Taking this into account, it is exciting to see this unique power plant clad in

London Underground Live

The above video demonstrates use of TFL’s new API Beta, which fetches live departure data and places it onto a Google map in realtime. A live version is normally available but the API is currently down due to overwhelming demand. The

Yell Maps

Having been impressed with Google’s steady introduction of their auto-generated 3D city meshes, I was equally surprised with Yell’s offering (above), which is the first of its kind for London.  Powered by C3 Technologies the photo-realistic 3D maps are created from aerial film footage

In the Air

In the Air is a visualisation project which aims to make visible the microscopic and invisible agents of Madrid´s air (gases, particles, pollen, diseases, etc), to see how they perform, react and interact with the rest of the city. I

The Geotaggers’ World Atlas

Eric Fischer has conducted some interesting studies of major world cities by re-mapping them according to the frequency of geo-tagged images sourced from both Flickr and Picasa. His method is not exactly clear but I assume the vector information is

Augmenting the Berlin Wall

Layar is clearly leading the race in developing AR for the smartphone masses. As the number of layers approaches 1000, I would argue there has been little in the way of real interest and quality to date, but this one

Augmented History

It may be an advert but this clip is a superb demonstration of the notion of using the virtual to enhance the physical by way of augmented reality. Such a reality may be a long way off but if achieved

Augmented Reality Maps

openFrameworks

During my research into the interactive aspects of my thesis I stumbled across openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. Unfortunately I am not going to have the time to delve into the actual programming but there are

Elevation Time-Lapse

A bit of an interlude… I am interested in recording my design development over time; an attempt to to convey some of the ‘invisible’ development process work prevalent in digital design. This is a simple (therefore not particularly interesting) test