Tonight IxDA Los Angeles & The Designory Inc. presented "Re-Invent 3.0: Augmented Reality" at the beautiful Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City. Despite the rain, 70 people showed up to play with augmented reality demos, eat delicious food from Urban Green Cuisine and hear from design agencies that focus on leading-edge technologies and new digital experiences such as augmented reality.
I'd like to thank our speakers: Bruno Uzzan, CEO at Total Immersion and David Glaze, Group Creative Director at The Designory, Inc., for showing us great demonstrations that highlighted some of the new interaction possibilities, and reminding us that the obvious direction is not always the right one. I also want to thank of all of our amazing local volunteers who made the night possible, especially Jinsoo An who came up with the idea for the event and did most of the leg work to put the whole thing together. And last but not least, a big thank you to our awesome IxDA Los Angeles community members who attended, as always it is your participation that makes the events rock! The folks at Total Immersion would love to hear from the global community about new ways you'd like to see augmented reality technology evolve. Right now the technology merges realtime video with 3D animation and allows for interaction without requiring markers. The most exciting thing is that these technologies can work with almost any digital camera as long as the gestures to interact with the system are broad. A child can hold a baseball card up to their laptop camera and see a 3D image of the player in action or hold up a toy box and see the toy in action. This, as Bruno Uzzan mentioned, is just the beginning. Please reply to this thread and share your thoughts about ways to utilize and expand this technology. If you attended the event, please share feedback about the event at the IxDA LA local site: http://ixdala.ning.com/events/reinvent-30-augmented-reality Let us know what you liked and what could be improved. Our next event will occur in early December and will probably focus on Mentoring. Thanks again and see you then! Kind regards, Angel Anderson IxDA Los Angeles ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
