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Augmented reality defined in the context of social media, mobility, and heads up displays. Consequences for cities examined regarding sensors, RFID, co-creation, and virtual-real continuum. Benefits for sustainability and connectivity; concerns for privacy, control of data, and building quality.
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Augmented Reality: Dream App or Disaster for Cities?? Be2Camp London 8 Oct 2009Dr. Cindy Frewen Wuellner, FAIAKansas City @urbanverse cfw (at) frewenarchitects (dot) comUniversity of Houston Frewen Architects Inc
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public projects
housing & schools
master planning
In association w/ Sasaki
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prosperity planetcommunication
forecasting
architecture
The UC-San Diego campus had suffered a revolution in the last decades.
The vibrant campus had been swept away by the Rose Canyon quake. The campus had reverted to a woodsy, low-density style, with buildings that might just as well have been prefab Quonsets.
In a sad, sad way it reminded Robert of the campus’s earliest years.
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The naked eye view showed concrete walls, seamed here and there with silvery lines.
[looking thru wearable lenses]: As he stepped through the doorway, Robert’s view shifted to some kind of standard enhancements; now the lighting came from gas mantle lamps set in the walls. The shadowed concrete was gone. These walls were built from large stones, squared with chisels, fitted together.
Robert reached out to touch the wall, snatched his hand back as he felt rough stone, not clean concrete!
1. What is augmented reality?2. How might it change cities
and buildings?3. What does it mean to us?
Consequences – why does AR matter?
Social Media
Landscape
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AThe Conversation Prism Brian Solis +JESS
AEC Entry Points
Who We Are
21% Creators
Edelson's Law
"The number of important insights that are not being made is
increasing exponentially with time."
Social NetsTwitter
Intelligent Transportation
1950 1980 2000
Internet
Metaverse Roadmap
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Social networks; peer to peer
Representations of reality; maps
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Metaverse Roadmap modified
Metaverse Roadmap
• In augmented reality, technologies enhance the external physical world for the individual, through the use of location-aware systems and interfaces that process and layer networked information on top of our everyday perception of the world.
Azuma’s Definition - 1997
• combines real and virtual • is interactive in real time • is registered in 3D
Augmented Reality
Definition - wikipedia
• Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.1. live video imagery - computer-generated
graphics. 2. sensors and actuators - motion-tracking data,
fiducial markers recognition using machine vision and the construction of controlled environments
Milgram's Reality-Virtuality Continuum - 1994
EU Study: Internet of Things – An Action Plan for Europe
Major next step:• From a network of interconnected computers
• To a network of interconnected objects• From books to cars, from electrical appliances
to food.
CFW’s Prognostications
1. AR makes the invisible visible.2. AR gives power to people and
paradoxically takes it away.3. The more virtual becomes real, the
less difference there is between virtual and real.
Augmented Reality Slideshow
Mirror/Virtual Representations
Oakland Crimespotters Map
Twitter Trendsmap
Layar – on android cell phones
Layar - Tweetmondo
Layar - Brightkite
AR Browsers -Robotvision
AR RFID Lab Markers
Quick Response Codes
AR+RFID Lab – Interactive Mirrors using small markers
Layar – Augmented Games
Heads Up Display
Heads Up display – wearable
lenses
McCullough, Digital Ground, 2004
Technological Extensions
Heads Up Display
New York Phantom City Tour
Times Square NYC Networked Omniscient
Exhibit
Augmented Reality Paths
1. Fantasy worlds – intentional fiction2. Representations – maps 3. Layers on real world
– In handhelds– On desktops– In real world – thru “heads up” devices or
on digitized surfaces
AR Purposes
1. Gather data2. Share 3. Represent4. Organize
• Think in terms of input and output• Raw data and manipulated
Consequences• What does AR mean to cities and
buildings?
• What does AR mean to us?
The Future is already here – It’s just unevenly distributed.
William Gibson
Consequences
1. Sensors2. Open Design3. V/R Trade-offs
McLuhan’s Tetrad
Augmented Reality
More DataConnectivityShared Knowledge
Rainbow’s EndLess PrivacyLess Control
Building Boxes
Awareness of energy use
Resource useReconnects to location
FTFCommuting to work/9-5 work
Schools, stores, libraries
Travel
Great Green Opportunities!!!
Who Controls, who has
access to Information?
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