Tuesday, 31 March 2026

AUGMENTED REALITY -- Denver

Tanya and I exhibited my sculptures at the Denver Museum of Art by using AUGMENTED REALITY on March 29, 2026:

View in Augmented Reality

View in Augmented Reality

AUGMENTED REALITY Sculptures:



In front of the real plaster sculpture by Fred Wilson










Roxanne Swentzell "Mud Woman Rolls On"







Behind two sculptures by Gail Folwell,



NOTE: We did have a hard time placing the AR inside the museum sometimes because of the dim lighting, apparently


Tanya did all AR Bombing with her iPhone in Denver.  Previously Tanya and I had guerilla-arted before, like when we dropped a couple of my books -- FINISH MY FIGURE DRAWINGS -- at Art Basel 2018 in Miami:



NOTE:  The AUGMENTED REALITY packages can be hosted, and seen, on GITHUB -- I posted this Alien Javelina AR on GITHUB


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PREVIOUS AR

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I have previously attempted to place my "sculptures" in public places with AUGMENTED REALITY, but with less success:





Back in 2011 the attempt to place my piece in the Sculpture Garden of the Albuquerque Museum was painful.  We could not get exact enough with GPS, and the Wi-Fi bandwidth was not very strong at that time:




Adric at Quelab 1.0 
first showed me Augmented Reality in 2011
with AndAR

Jacob Dorler made the 3D file in 2012
to project onto the AR target


In 2011 I even had "targets" made for the AndAR augmented reality app -- one on a ball cap, and others as temporary tattoos.

AndAR "target" on a ball cap

Temporary tattoo AR "targets"
made by 3 Monkeys in Phoenix


MOCK UPS

These below are just photo-bashes of what a good AUGMENTED REALITY experience would look like:







VR GALLERIES

I ought to be able to place the same 3D sculptures in a VIRTUAL REALITY Gallery, like I've done before with Spatial.io back in 2022:







AR FANTASIES

"What if this whole AR Print fantasy could be streamlined in real time? One would hold their smart phone over the framed 8x8 inch print, and the phone would take a picture of it automatically, like it were reading a QR code. That image would then be sent to the cloud, where Shap-E would automatically generate a 3D image. Then that generated 3D AI image would then be projected over that same print in Augmented Reality, practically in real time, adding a 3D element to a 2D print."


IDEALLY I would like to place my AUGMENTED REALITY 3D sculptures throughout the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden.  I would want to use various architectural locations as "targets," which the smart phone could read and then place the 3D AR sculpture in that exact spot.



8th Wall was a software that would place AR objects over targets.  They went out of business on February 28, 2026 -- however now they are OPEN SOURCE.

Moreover I do not want the viewer to have to download an app to do this.  They could just scan a QR code (or swipe over an NFC tag) and link into an AUGMENTED REALITY space -- as one can do with
MINDAR (I could not get it to work) -- as we saw in the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA EXHIBITION in Santa Fe in 2025.  That way a visitor can see many AR "sculpture" Easter Eggs while strolling through the Sculpture Garden at the museum.

Two different NFC tags on this print at Quelab


AR roadrunner sculpture
triggered with NFC tags
from a print by Lisa Casaus


Moreover can also make 3D GLB files from scanning real sculptures and objects from the real world -- like we did with the iPhone using Lidar:





AR at Quelab
on April 1, 2026


UPDATE (April 8, 2026): Adric made and printed a QR code to the above Augmented Reality that printed on his PhotoMemo label maker -- and the small QR code worked (unlike the previous Google QR code in this blog post, which had dots that were too small to print consistently)

This QR code worked
with the PhotoMemo label maker

The PhotoMemo label maker


ODD THOUGHTS:
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DENVER BEFORE

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