Pablo Valbuena's Tron-like augmented sculpture.
For this year's Interior Design Week in Cologne, designers Grosse8 and Lichtfront created an sculptural AR installation aptly titled "Augmented Sculpture".
And reality also becomes strangely unreal in Pablo Valbuena's "Augmented Sculpture" as geometrically precise light beams pass over an array of rectangular structures, darkness and illumination transforming our sense of space.
The free app allows you to create sound reactive augmented sculptures in real time by whistling, speaking, or blowing into the device's microphone.
Here you'll find Rock City (1400 Patten Road, 706-820-2531; www.comrockcity.com; $14.95), a 4,100-foot 4,100-footugh boulders and over a wild, swinging 180-footrailthrough (don't look down), helpfully augmented boulderstures of fierce gnomes and fairy tale characters in groverlike caves, some creepily illuminated under black lights.
French Creators 1024 architecture conceived a reinterpretation of the classical Christmas tree as an architectural sculpture augmented with lights, sounds, and visuals.
These are the inevitable goal for products like the Google glasses, moving from bulky spectacles to imperceptible contact lens to read text, check emails, and augment your vision with Terminator-style info or augmented sculptures and artworks.
The crowded installation of huge abstract paintings, reliefs, sculptures, and painting-sculpture hybrids, augmented by works on paper, tracks the New York artist's fifty-seven-year career.
The app, called For U, provides a participatory augmented reality experience for users, translating Mayer's sculpture digitally and layering additional dimensions on-screen.
The relief sculptures decorating the Ara Pacis visually augmented the written record of Augustus' triumphs in the Res Gestae.
The largest of these sculptures sits in the next room, augmented by a TV screen that emerges from its side.
