It’s been more than a year now that I have been running USEUM LTD the company built around http://useum.org; by definition the first social network for art built upon the concept of crowd-sourcing. It started off from my PhD in the broader … Continue reading
In the summer of 2011 a friend and I we founded Augmentarium, a venture that was built around the homonym software. Augmentarium aimed to become the Photoshop of AR; easy and inexpensive design and implementation of AR applications. My friend … Continue reading
The image is a tribute to Raph Koster the genius that bridged the gap between happiness and successful game design based on empirical research. My MFA thesis awarded with A+ accompanies “Shakespeare’s Hunt” the iPad game for The Globe Theatre and … Continue reading
For the first term of the academic year ’11-’12 I was given the chance to do the lectures for the Communication and Visualisation unit of the BA Sound Design course at Ravensbourne College. I face this ‘task’ as a challenge; … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s Hunt is a pilot of an alternate reality, also known as treasure hunt, game for the exhibition of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. I worked on the project as a partner of Metavore London, developing the software, designing the interface and … Continue reading
I had the chance to be invited at the Digital Futures Conference hosted by Ravensbourne College to talk on Serious Games and learning. The conference featured a number of great professionals like Euan Semple and Dr. Paul Coulton from the … Continue reading
Last week I hosted a workshop on Augmented Reality for the post-graduate students of Ravensbourne College. It was divided in three major parts; the definition of what is Augmented Reality and what is not, then the development of a couple … Continue reading
My thesis for the MA Interactive Digital Media apart from the deployment of the Augmented Reality Suite presented in the previous post, includes also an in depth research of the augmented reality and the way it has been applied to … Continue reading
During the last academic year in the course MA Interactive Digital Media of Ravensbourne College I discovered my interest in innovative applications for museums, while at the same time I had the chance to explore a plethora of new technologies. … Continue reading
The previous post was an introduction to Augmented Reality explaining the basic terminology and the techniques while this one is focusing on applications of this technology that have been hosted or are still running in cultural institutions all over the … Continue reading