Augmented Architecture
This is the N Building in Tokyo. The entire front is a QR Code that you can point your mobile phone at to see the building augmented with a digital overlay.
There’s something about it that irks me. It’s far from rubbish. No, I think the implementation is fantastic. Hats off to the team that made it happen. I’m really very glad people are doing stuff like this - but the fact that it needs special software and a mobile device that you need to hold aloft, pointed at the building makes me feel a bit weird. Why expect people to do that?
It’s a bit like this…
Surely you can display useful (and fun) information about the building, it’s status and its inhabitants without resorting to making people hold their phones out or up in the air.
Don’t ask me how it should be done because I don’t have an answer yet - but that’s the feeling I get. I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
