We were recently asked by a company in France to help them with some ideas for a Yacht navigation tool – and since we have nothing better to do than do free work for potential clients who then decide that the project wasn´t actually that serious – here is what we came up with, so if anyone wants it, send us an email to: amazingdesigns@wedoworkforfree.com
the German news magazine Spiegel ONLINE write today a interesting article about AUGMENTED REALITY.
read the article here: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/spielzeug/0,1518,639661,00.html
and also here find some Videos, the first one here shows a realy impressive App for iPhone 3GS:
New York Nearest Subway augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair
I definitely think that more people should come up with useful things like this one, and at the same time make it look absolutely breathtaking. Who said that things can´t be useful and pretty at the same time?
Fontplore Showreel from Mphasize on Vimeo.
Projectpage here: http://www.fontplore.org/
awesome facade projection…
555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.
A kind of Google Earth application with physically based rendering. Data comes from Blue Marble Next Generation from Nasa Earth Observatory (the whole Earth at 500 meters per pixel).
The real time 3D OpenGL demo with a huge 3.6Gb dataset is available here: http://evasion.inrialpes.fr/~Eric.Bruneton/demo.html
source: http://www.geeks3d.com/20090729/google-earth-like-real-time-planet-rendering/
Designed by Berlin interactive artists Gunnar Green and Frederic Eyl, Aperture includes dozens of tiny aperture holes that (with a slight delay) open if there is no light and closes if there is. The result is the silhouette of passersby.
Source: http://scophy.com/2008/01/15/art-tuesdays-interactive-installation-detects-light-to-openclose/
The golden age of glass button is over. Check out the next step of Interface Design….
http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/alternative_energy must see !!
… really one of the greatest Russian product designers. Check the Website !
http://www.kibardindesign.com/default.aspx
source: http://designyoutrust.com/2009/07/14/vadim-kibardin-2/
“Techland released the first part of the demonstration movie for their 3D game engine - Chrome Engine 4 called “Living Environment”. This demo displays the graphics engine and is rendered realtime, have a look as we guarrantee you, you will be amazed.”
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Chrome-Engine-4-demonstration-movie-download-2325.html
I don’t know if this guy was a graphics developer, but he knows how to use some 3D techniques like 3D textures. Xia Xiaowan is a chinese painter that paints in 3D using layers of glass. So if you need an overview of what 3D texture look like, Xia Xiaowan did it!
Source: http://www.geeks3d.com/20090608/3d-texture-in-real-life/#more-4141 and