Today we had an augmented reality workshop and the beginning lecture was really interesting and if you would like to find out more about it then a small piece you can find here: http://www.mah.se/Forskning/Sok-pagaende-forskning/Living-Archives/ . It was leaving a memory trail behind and someone with the right tools could go and see what you left behind. It was difficult for me to understand that as easy as it sounds but it only made sense to me when I talked about it and found the right mindset, hours after the seminar and workshop had ended.
For lunch before we started our task we ate at a place called Pika Jala. It was a nice place with really weird artwork on their wall. That is something that I’ve noticed here in Tallinn that there is a lot of things that you miss if you’re not looking properly. I experience it everytime and I find myself thinking “Oh, didn’t expect that to be there”.
For the task we had three different tools to work with Snap Chat, Vine and Aurasma. Aurasma was the one that I used the most because the wi-fi crashed in the school so we could not download the others. Aurasma is basically a program where you can record something and then put it on a tag, like a symbol or picture and if someone is using Aurasma on their phone they will be able to see that recording as long as their phone is directed to the tag. It was a really interesting concept but it’s now based on channels instead of tags which means that you have to follow the channel that put the tag there. It was really a fun thing to try out 🙂
After that workshop we went to Noku again but now in a larger group and we had dinner and socialized.
I am really tired now so it’s a short update. Tomorrow is the last day of the workshop and that will be about Site-specific sound work and storytelling. Until then!
Hemmie - Game Design 