Legal issues with using Augmented Reality for activist purposes

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My conference presentation at the 2017 CreateWorld Conference was very interesting. The audience asked some really great questions and quite a few people sought me out later to discuss my work. The most popular topic by far was the legalities of using AR in this manner, which to be honest I hadn’t thought about that much. I use the Layar platform … Read More

Conference: CreateWorld 2017 Presentation

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I’ll be presenting a conference paper Repurposing Augmented Reality Browsers for Acts of Creative Subversion at this years Apple University Consortium (AUC) CreateWorld Conference. It’s all about my initial experiments figuring out how to use Augmented Reality as an activist tool. I’ll be talking a little bit about my failures too, including the above video! I ambitiously tried to augment the … Read More

Bikeway at Risk: Augmented Reality protest

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Bikeway at Risk 2017 A fun little Augmented Reality experiment this morning, adding a Monty Python-esque detail to the construction cladding for Queens Wharf. The animated tongue exclaims ‘BIKEWAY AT RISK’. The Bicentennial Bikeway is the busiest active transport route in all of Queensland with 6500 people using it every day (including me!). One of the many problems with the new … Read More

Experimenting with Augmented Reality (AR) as an activist tool

David SargentActivism, Augmented Reality, Body Image, DVA, LetteringLeave a Comment

No Bodies Perfekt and That’s Ok 2017 I originally looked into Augmented Reality years ago when it was the ‘next big thing’ in marketing circles. It was one of those things that was just too hard and time intensive to work out at the time. Apart from Pokemon Go, it never seemed to take off anyway. Earlier this year someone was showing me … Read More