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For 50 years,computing has been a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional world. Now, tech giants and thousands of startups seeking growth opportunities beyond mobile are setting spatial computing on a trajectory for exponential growth. These companies see spatial computing as a way to organize and interact with information in space rather than on a flat screen. In order to unlock the next dimension of spatial computing, they are leveraging technologies such as AR and VR, plus a good measure of AI and a completely new interaction approach--interaction with the world around you, in three dimensions.

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🔘 Arch 🟣 SC

Over the past couple of decades, artists and designers have developed augmented realities that propose vastly different, and often more radical perspectives of what a digitally-enhanced public realm could look like. Unlike Matsuda’s unsettling vision of AR as a layer of perception primed for economic exploitation, many AR projects instead provoke critical questions about the implementation of this novel technology and its potential to shift both the everyday experiences and political economies of architecture and cities. What does it mean to filter public space through a highly personalized form of digital sensing?

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🔘 Arch 🔵 FS

Building Blocks is a video game that allows any person to mock-up the future development of their city. We developed Building Blocks through Unity. The game is an easy-to-use design tool that allows any citizen to participate in design workshopping without any knowledge of 3d modeling programs.

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🟡 Sci-fi

At the end of the 19th century, New York City stank. One hundred fifty thousand horses ferried people and goods through the streets of Manhattan, producing 45,000 tons — tons! — of manure a month. It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation.

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