Giant Hand to squash you in the street!

Chris O’Shea contacted me and pointed me to their website, that documents a neat street art installation, using some augmented reality in the broader sense. Take a look for yourself: a big screen in the pedestrian zone of Liverpool (so far) that shows a live feed of the street. A digital mirror to see yourself from bird’s eye perspective. But all of a sudden a giant hand will grab you, squash you, move you or tickle you. A hillarious installation you definitively have to check out. Next stop will be Cardiff in Wales.

Although you could moan it’s not really AR, I love to see more of these street arts like this one, the Blinkenlights projector UrbanScreen. Let’s hope for the next version of the Hand from Above with some interaction… maybe we as small tiny ant-like critters can fight back against the greater life form? :-)

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.