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Russian artist “turns the reality around us into ASCII”

WIRED’s blog asks us to “forget Second Life” and turn the real world virtual. That’s just the idea!
They post this interesting goggle-based augmented reality device with 6 modes of psychedellic visual effects (made even more so by the sound effects in this video).
The artists are named as Alexei Shulgin and Arstarkh Chernyshev [...]

reactable: electronic music table surface

This is not only musically interesting it also looks great. Developed by the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra located in Barcelona. The multiuser table is being used by Bjork on her 2007 tour. The analogue synth style sounds generated definitely recall the Kraftwerk era and the new possibilities that were - and [...]

Augmented urban architecture

In the future, people will jump up and down and punch invisible purple spheres. This video shows a variety of applications, mostly artistic. The urban scenes are fantastic. The future will also have some pretty cool sound effects. Apparently, artists will be able to create entirely new species of animals to populate the [...]