One of the goals of the @ubistudio is to actually do projects with new media technologies, not just talk about them. In that spirit, we made a mobile augmented reality experience for the 2010 01SJ Biennial that takes place this weekend, Sept 16-19, 2010.
It’s a fairly simple layer, developed on the Layar AR browser and featuring basic points of interest (POIs) for many of the public artworks and venues of the 01SJ festival. Here’s a screen shot of our layer in action on an iPhone 3Gs:
Among the many artworks featured are “Play Me I’m Yours“, ~20 street pianos created by artists Luke Jerram; Poetics of Dis-communication by Patrick Manning, and ZOROP by Ken Eklund and Annette Mees. You’ll also find the major venues and outdoor performances, to say nothing of the stops where you can catch the ZOROP Mexican Party Bus!
We submitted the layer to the Layar developer program, and it was approved earlier this week. If you’re at 01SJ and have a newer iPhone or Android phone, please check it out and let us know how you like it. You’ll need to download the free Layar app for your phone if you don’t have it already. Then just search for “01SJ” and you should be able to find it easily. All of the interesting points are in the downtown San Jose area, so if you’re not in that area you won’t see much ;-) If you have questions or feedback, ping us on Twitter: @ubistudio or just get involved by coming to our next Ubiquitous Media Studio meetup.
