Goro Motai pointed me to the work of Camille Scherer, an interaction designer who has the most elegant vision for augmented reality I’ve ever seen. Instead of designing objects for machines to read, she imbues meaningful things with added information in a harmonious way – giving you the feeling that the things around you all have the potential to contain secret messages. Her thesis produced this haunted book (video below) where graceful two-dimensional animations are overlaid on an already beautiful manuscript when viewed through a magic desk lamp and laptop computer:
I also enjoyed her vision of projected ambient information presented in ‘the cake party’:
While you’re at it, check out her personal propaganda poster generator>