Mobile AR and a new office look

Since I’m as always pretty excited about projected Augmented Reality, I wanted to point again to the work at MIT MediaLab (Link to Fluid Interfaces and LuminAR currently down): their robotics arm including a camera and a projector is able to project images to the surfaces around you and allows for a gesture interaction. Imagine a small form factor, that looks like a desktop lamp, that includes all your computer hardware!

Regarding mobile Augmented Reality Interfaces, Willem Van den Eynde wrote his thesis on this topic. The demo shows a similar approach as the MIT’s 6th Sense demo (the link to the TED 2009 presentation here). I like the concept of having a wrist attached interface part, where you can drop and store snapshots or other media/augmented items. Moving a marker from your wrist to a desktop computer to transfer all taken photos or a specific one is a neat interaction detail.