Spatial Robots Website

Grid: Augmented Reality Gaming (by Sahar Fikouhi)

Students work on various projects for their studies, and usually also have ideas for developing private projects of their own according to their technical area of interest. That's often why they decided to study engineering. An interesting website highlights projects that relate to interactive architecture. This includes topics in the areas of architecture, robots, interfaces and control.

The link: http://www.spatialrobots.com

The website's description is that it "features and critiques control technologies, interfaces and robotics as they pertain to the future of interactive architecture and space. Created by Miles Kemp in 2007, this website showcases architecture, space, interfaces, new media, websites, robotics, nanotechnology, reconfigurable objects, behavioral logic, new materials, and emerging technologies with emphasis placed on projects being interactive and spatial."

Posts include videos, short articles and links to other blogs. Readers are invited to submit news they think is "cool" to be featured on the website. This would be an interesting invitation to students at the beginning of the semester, to see what kinds of material they think is "cool news" to share with the class.

A recent addition to the website (currently on the home page) is Grid: Augmented Reality Gaming by Sahar Fikouhi, described as providing a "spatial configuration for real-time gaming at an architectural scale."

A video (3:12 minutes) shows how Grid works, and there's a link to Sahar Fikouhi's blog, MOB-ILITY, which has an article that explains the project (a good example for students) and more visuals related to the project.

For more information: saharfikouhi.blogspot.com/2011/12/grid-augmented-reality-gaming_27.html