In modern life you cant’ do without your smartphone
In modern life you cant’ do without your smartphone but do you really sea everything you should see ore are you missing out on some things? You can call it an update or introduction to the world of Augmented Reality. This evening examples and possibility’s of AR for different purposes will be presented at the BEM-Academy in Gent Belgium.
Almost the whole of Noord Brabant has now been stage to a Layar Safari City Tour. Following Eindhoven and Breda november 5th 2011 the Augmented Reality City Tour of the Layar Safari entered s’-Hertogenbosch. This edition was the first to include a colony of Monarch Butterfly’s crowding the AR sky and a Scarabe crawling the …
This summer the Dutch music festivals have a ‘secret’ backdoor. No longer you need a backstage pass or special favours from ‘friends’ to get your picture taken with the stars. Meet the Foo Fighters at Pinkpop or get a picture of you and The Baseballs at Concert at Sea 2011 style. Start the Layar AR …
During the E-pulse festival 2011 the city of Breda is host to the Layar Safari, a production of Victor de Vries technical supported by Sander Veenhof. Urban wildlife will never be the same. Animated AR Hippo’s can be seen in the water a Gorilla found its home in the park, all you have to do …
With the discovery of a virtual tropical island in front of the coast of Westerstrand Terschelling an explanation is found for the numerous exotic birds flying around in AR space in the north of the Netherlands. Luckily a few people using iPhones can spot them using the Layar browser on their smartphone and give them …
Coming Oerol 2011 ‘location theatre’ festival at Terschelling the signs of AR can no longer be ignored. In cooperation with Dutch Artist Sander Veenhof the first traffic light of Terschelling will be revealed near Stryper Wiefke. We believe this is in fact a test-case to check if a the virtual domain can have a significant …
Why limit your traveling experience to the physical world? Sharing your vacation with your friends often results in the same story’s and pictures taken on ‘Lonely Planet’ must see locations. Where is the fun in that? I have had the experience of adding a holiday hotspot in AR (Augmented Reality) space before setting of to …
In the first weekend of June 2011 the famous San Marco square in Venice will be home of the Don Pigeon. This AR bird will dominate the square and compete with the real life pigeons for attention of the tourists. Using the Layar browser on your smartphone “The Don” will give you the best photo …
June 23th 2011 a workshop ‘Birdwatching 2.0′ will be an introduction into the world of Augmented Reality at the Slow Management Live event. Viewing virtual birds arround the Strijp area in Eindhoven using our iPhone and the AR Layar browser. During the presentation we take a look at the possibility’s of organising digital data in …
HTM commissioned Repro- van de Kamp – Victor de Vries to develop a Layar production for the city of The Hague. At the premiere of this Layar in april it served the viewer the experience of traveling through the history watching it from an moving antique tram. On the streets AR pictures of different areas …
Victor de Vries (1975)