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Visual Search, Augmented Reality, and Physical Hyperlinks for Playfulness, Not just Purchases: Talking with Paige Saez about ImageWiki

The video above, The Imawik commercial, is a collaboration between In The Can Productions and Paige Saez for Makerlab “The Imawik (ImageWiki) is a visual search tool for mobile devices. It allows for the ability to turn images into physical hyperlinks, conflating visual culture with a community-editable universal namespace for images.” Paige Saez is an […]

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The Game is about the World not Dragons: Talking with Will Wright about Augmented Reality

“The game is about the world not dragons,” Will Wright, Founder and Chief Executive  Stupid Fun Club, Creator of Spore and The Sims. I had a brief chat with Will Wright after his talk at Engage!, and I was delighted to hear that augmented reality is high on his agenda at the moment: “a lot […]

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Augmented Reality DevCamp NYC: The Big ARNY – A Collaborative AR Game Project Modeled After Swarm of Angels

First an incredibly big thank you to The Open Planning Project office (TOPP) – @TOPPLabs, and Sophia Parafina, @spara,  for organizing, hosting,  sponsoring and providing so much inspiration for this event. There is an incomplete list of attendees below, and there were about 70 people at one point watching the Ustream (thank you Dimitri Darras […]

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