Epicenter Disappear in a Forest of Lights

"The viewer enters into a totally immersive and unfamiliar dark space. His feelings are tuned.... he is trying to understand what is waiting for him, but the picture of the world is changing with light and sound. He has experienced this before... in the night forest " © SilaSveta
"You are not enjoying a piece of art, you are not being entertained by a big-scale installation and are not watching a light show. You are an unwanted witness of an unknown lighting phenomena. You are in the epicenter”
© TUNDRA

Project Soli touchless interactions

Project Soli is using radar to enable new types of touchless interactions -- one where the human hand becomes a natural, intuitive interface for our devices. The Soli sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale, and can be used inside even small wearable devices.

Interactive Volumetric Fog Display

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Emerging Technologies We present a novel 3D display that applies projection mapping to a non-planar and reconfigurable fog screen, thus enabling interactive visual contents to be displayed at multiple depth levels. Users can perceive three-dimensionality naturally and interact with the unencumbered images by touching them directly in mid-air. The display can also be used in mixed reality settings where physical objects can co-exist and interact with virtual objects in physical space in real time. It does not require special glasses, head-mounted devices or eye/head-tracking, while allowing high-resolution, full-color 3D image to be observed from wide viewing angles by many people at the same time. Most importantly, our immaterial, mid-air display will allow users to intuitively touch and manipulate virtual objects in 3D under marker-free and barrier-free settings, which will open up immense tangible and creative interaction possibilities.

Texturing of AR Characters from Colored Drawings

Coloring books capture the imagination of children and provide them with one of their earliest opportunities for creative expression. However, given the proliferation and popularity of digital devices, real-world activities like coloring can seem unexciting, and children become less engaged in them. Augmented reality holds unique potential to impact this situation by providing a bridge between real-world activities and digital enhancements. In this paper, we present an augmented reality coloring book App in which children color characters in a printed coloring book and inspect their work using a mobile device. The drawing is detected and tracked, and the video stream is augmented with an animated 3-D version of the character that is textured according to the child’s coloring. This is possible thanks to several novel technical contributions. We present a texturing process that applies the captured texture from a 2-D colored drawing to both the visible and occluded regions of a 3-D character in real time. We develop a deformable surface tracking method designed for colored drawings that uses a new outlier rejection algorithm for real-time tracking and surface deformation recovery. We present a content creation pipeline to efficiently create the 2-D and 3-D content. And, finally, we validate our work with two user studies that examine the quality of our texturing algorithm and the overall App experience.

Massive Building Projection Mapping

In this video you'll see the full 6 video projection shows. What is iMapp Bucharest? One of the biggest video-mapping events in the world, organized by creart - The Center for Creation, Art and Tradition of the City of Bucharest 2015 will see the second edition of iMapp Bucharest coming to life.

Sydney's a City of Rainbows 4K Projection Mapping Timelapse

An LED Thunderstom Rages Inside A Glass House

Sachwitz describes the exhibtion as "an interaction between light and darkness, black and white, shadows and contrast and this is all inspired by nature" featuring two pieces: HERE NOW from the famous Irish artist Maser and the piece INSIDEOUT from Leigh Sachwitz herself. This year's kick off exhibition is intimate and promotes contrast through placing both pieces directly next to each other. If you happen to be in the Hanseatic city and have missed the opening event, we would like to invite you to visit this visual journey.

Ladder of Fire into the Sky

Artist Cai Guo­-Qiang Sends a 500-Meter Ladder of Fire into the Sky Above China. Behind Sky Ladder lies a clear childhood dream of mine. Despite all life’s twists and turns, I have always been determined to realize it. My earlier proposals were either more abstract or ceremonial. Sky Ladder today is tender, and touches my heart deeply: it carries affection for my hometown, my relatives and my friends. In contrast to my other attempts, which set the ignition time at dusk, this time the ladder rose toward the morning sun, carrying hope. For me, this not only means a return but also the start of a new journey.