Looking Outwards-01 Yoonseo(Dave) Choi

Ever since AR(Augmented reality) was introduced, I was always fascinated with the idea of looking through different lens for amazing experience. I find all the AR art works to be very inspiring and useful. I have seen lots of videos on artists using AR as tool to bring still image come to life or even sculpture. Particular thing I find on usage of AR is that it can be cooperated easily with anyone with smartphones and Holo lens in future. It has such a potential to be used for everyday life and bring indirect experience to be more closer to each individuals.

I have tried to use the free AR kit which was ARToolkit to create my own AR, but process was rather complicated and had steep learning curve. I am sure that artists who have used the similar program has gone through many hours of figuring how to make camera recognize image and engage the viewer to it.

Here are some videos on example of AR.

This is museum in Japan, Nagoya. They have used the AR through out the whole museum to bring still images to life.

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crScMhWjHJE

Artist is unclear from the video, but we can see that arts become more engaging to the audience.

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq8lwGnbKIc