iPhone Development Workshops at York

The iPhone Development Workshop series is a free workshop for enthusiasts and academics interested in understanding the capabilities of mobile devices. Focusing on the iPhone as a successful “all-in-one” platform we discuss what’s possible, what’s not, and what’s next in developing for mobile devices. This workshop series is hosted by the Augmented Reality Lab at […]

Living Postcards

Living Postcards is an interactive display designed for use at the Future of the Internet Conference, Prague (2009) and the Canada 3.0 Conference, Stratford (2009). Users approach the booth and can watch a mirrored projection of themselves holding a movie clip in the palm of their hands. By holding a postcard imprinted with a black […]

52 Card Cinema

52 Card Psycho is an installation-based investigation into cinematic structures and interactive cinema viewership. The concept is simple: 52 cards, each printed with a unique identifier, are replaced in the subject’s view by the individual shots that make up a movie scene. The cards can be stacked, dealt, arranged in their original order or re-composed […]

Handheld City

Handheld City is an online streaming experience developed by the AR Lab for the city of Toronto’s virtual museum project, which launched March 6 (Toronto’s 176th birthday). Using AR as a storytelling device, the researchers organized and animated the digital objects in the museum collection and created an interesting way to interact with the objects […]

ARLAB Objects for Max/MSP

A collection of abstractions that can be used to connect to Intersense tracking grids (IS 900) and work as a complement to COSM for Max/MSP by the Media Arts & Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara, USA. Objects include abstractions for communicating to individual trackers by connecting them to cosm.nav objects, working with a Video […]

Augmented Reality Lab at York University

We live in a culture with the unprecedented capacity to bring together the physical and the virtual, to transform our relationships to objects and landscapes through the addition of computer-generated information. But what constitutes a successful, compelling and emotionally rich experience in such environments? The Augmented reality lab at York University is developing techniques, software […]