Augmented Reality Flash Mob
Sander Veenhof (Dutch, born 1973),
Johannes la Poutre (Dutch, born 1963),
and Tobias Domhan (German, born 1988)
2010
Installation using Layar Reality Browser
and AndAR Model Viewer software
Human-statue performers appear in
public places around the world. The
Augmented Reality Flash Mob uses QR
codes and Layar technology, with which
smartphone users can connect to an
augmented-reality platform, to take
the phenomenon one step further. The
designers coordinate, on a specific date
and time and place, a coterie of virtual
three-dimensional characters—including
Darth Vader, zombies, Spider-Man, the
Beatles, and Smurfs—which anyone with
a smartphone can see and walk among.
The characters can only be viewed (and
photographed) through a device; pictures
of the event can then be uploaded
and printed, creating a visual record
of a virtual event.
Category: Worlds
Tags: Liminal Spaces / Networks / Mutants and Fairy Tales
