Your tweets will never be the same. In Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district, the N Building is a commercial structure can operate like a billboard, without losing the building identity or being covered up by large signage.
With your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. This will allow a cityscape to not be overwhelmed with signage and also will be an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.
What if you could decide where to shop, eat or hang out, with a little help from local Google users?
It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier Google’ve launched a new effort to send window decals to over 100,000 local businesses in the U.S. that have been the most sought out and researched on Google.com and Google Maps. Google’s calling these businesses the “Favorite Places on Google” and you’ll now start to find them in over 9,000 towns and cities, in all 50 states. You can also explore a sample of the Favorite Places in 20 of the largest U.S. cities at google.com/favoriteplaces. Each window decal has a unique bar code, known as a QR code that you can scan with any of hundreds of mobile devices — including iPhone, Android-powered phones, BlackBerry and more — to take you directly to that business’s Place Page on your mobile phone. With your mobile phone and these new decals, you can easily go up to a storefront and immediately find reviews, get a coupon if the business is offering one or star a business as a place you want to remember for the future. Soon, you’ll be able to leave a review on the mobile page as well, just like on your desktop.
My interactive media project this semester is about the augmentation of the classic communication medium business card. I tried to extend it wisely, so that you can have the essential information of a businesscard (adress, email etc.) and at the same time create a very personal and interesting possibility to introduce yourself to others. I kept the physical businesscard and extended it digitally. I don’t think the “analog” business card will die soon, to many people it is almost like a status symbol and in Japan for example the “handing over” of a business card is quite a ritual. With my project i keep these possibilities and bring a new interesting touch to this communication medium.
Great work Jonas!
* The author creates a presentation, using a frontend tool (which is in development at the moment). He can import various media like images, video clips and 3D-models. The application exports this presentation as a XML file.
* This XML file is uploaded to a webserver, together with all the necessary assets.
* From the URL of the XML presentation you generate a QR-Code. This unique QR-Code will lead the application to the right presentation, so that the application itself can stay the same and can be used by everyone…nobody has to compile his own version of the application to share his presentation.
* Now you print the QR-Code on your business card, together with the AR-marker
* The person who gets your business card can now start the application on a website (since it is developed in flash you can run it in the browser) or download it to his computer.
The application was developed using FLARtoolkit, Papervision 3D, FLARmanager and the Ribbit API.
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