augmented reality

augmented reality, AR

invisible art space news - August 2026

August through to November is busy at invisible art space. You’re invited to the exhibitions listed below.

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NOW @ invisible art space

15-29 August 2026 ::: Melody Owen // Pearl Hyacinth (internet via USA)

Melody Owen (USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator from Portland, Oregon, who works with installation, video, photography, digital processes and hand cut collage. Owen explores technology, ecology and the embodied perception and communication of reality via different types of living forms. Most recently, Owen has been exploring these issues through 3D virtual worlds. Her digital representative, Pearl Hyacinth is a nomadic multiverse avatar who has been curating and creating work within existing social, creative virtual 3D worlds for the past ten years.

In this exhibition, Melody Owen’s Portrait Gallery : Fabulous Monsters series of hand cut collages are on display. These images made from picture books of colonial Australians and Australian seashells have accompanying augmented reality (AR) animations when viewed via a digital device — the collages come alive in the digital space. The Hyacinth Report, a ten-year retrospective of Pearl Hyacinth’s adventures in virtual worlds will also be shown.

Melody Owen / Pearl Hyacinth : Portrait Gallery: Fabulous Monsters + Hyacinth Report

Melody Owen's (Portland, Oregon) exhibition includes hand-made speculative ecology collage prints linked to digital augmented reality animations, plus a ten-year retrospective of her digital avatar, Pearl Hyacinth's explorations in virtual 3D worlds.

15-29 August 2026
Sat+Sun 12-3pm
invisible art space
141/2-18 Buchanan St Balmain


GE AR - augmented reality

GE AR - augmented reality
I tried playing this AR video at home tonight and it worked! this is the first attempt so the video I took is a bit dodgy but it gives an idea. the cat was purring whilst I was recording and kept nudging my head. I tried blowing on the mic but couldn't get the windmill blades to spin. try it out! now I want to try make my own!!
thanks to @LukeSnarl for tweeting the link

http://vimeo.com/4764743 :

GE AR - augmented reality from kath on Vimeo.

GE page
- print out the marker
- u might need to upgrade your flash player to v10
- turn on your webcam (mac - do this with flash player not photobooth - read the help tips on the url for help)
- launch wind power or solar energy links
(if you just see the green oval spinning then it probably can't see your camera)
- hold the marker printout so it's facing your webcam.. then watch the 3d images appear!

http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

http://bit.ly/9V5hV is a better video demo (clearer than what I've done - but I wanted to try it myself)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00FGtH5nkxM

luke sent me a great AR game by Julian Oliver (NZ) :
http://vimeo.com/1320756 :

levelHead v1.0, 3 cube speed-run (spoiler!) from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

this is amazing!
he's made a game using cubes - called Levelhead - it's won all sorts of awards (deservedly so!)
he explains it on his website @ http://julianoliver.com/levelhead (& has code for you to try too)

Julian is part of HIT Lab NZ - The Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand - from their site it looks like they're doing some pretty cool stuff!!

ARToolKit

ARToolKit
ARToolKit documentation page - with samples, tutorials and background details

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trainscapes ceiling

I thought it'd be cool to get a personal projector and project videos onto the ceiling of the train for people to watch during the ride to & from work. have a website where people could suggest videos, or perhaps they tweet them or sms. they could rate them too on the site. I was thinking art or landscapes - trainscapes. but I suppose eventually it'd be overtaken by advertisers or spammers. would be nice for a while though! just look at all this ceiling space doing nothing - apart from the bright lighting in the train, this would be ok for an adhoc screen. 29/04/2009

http://blip.tv/file/2050621

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openframeworks & openCV - computer vision libraries

yesterday, @DustForEyes posted an "AR scratching" video by vanderlin to stealth board & twitter. it's tagged with tags such as AR, augmented reality, opencv, and openframeworks, so I googled some of these. the AR markers seem like the fiducial markers found in reactable - note there's going to be a performance / demo of one of these called dubtable at ripped next week which would be cool to check out.

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fiducial markers, reactable, table top interface controllers

reactable - interface controllers - reactivision - table top interface controllers

tabletop interface controllers and systems are becoming more popular over the last few years. youtube is helping get the word out there - it was interesting to see a post on Stealth Board linking to the youtube video below and the guys talking about how cool it was and that it's the music of the future & it being alien music. !!
sounds like the genres are crossing over.. !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc

reactable / reactivision

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?software

http://www.iua.upf.es/mtg/reacTable/

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/nime/index.html

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?publications

http://maniaxmemori.net/log/index.php?2006/12/07/2-dialectique-du-caillo...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/reactivision/

conferences

http://itp.nyu.edu/nime/2007/workshops.php - NIME

video processing languages / systems

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