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Augmented reality telescreen harasses onlookers
Augmented reality telescreen harasses onlookers
Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo . This commissioned work by artist Chris O’Shea has an enormous hand alternately crushing, picking up, and tickling passersby. It certainly is reminiscent of the Kids in the Hall sketch with the head crusher (which I have embedded ...
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Augmented Reality Billboard Pokes Bystanders
Tech Blog — ... Created by Chris O'Shea for BBC, Hand from Above is essentially an augmented reality billboard that pokes bystanders -- "appears to work more or less automatically, effacing people it picks up or shrinking them." Video after the break. Not the hardest thing to do (especially with a decent background image) but, I imagine, difficult to do dynamically like that. [via Crunchgear - Chrisoshea]]

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