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A week or two back, a colleague gave me a sample of the QR code panels that are being piloted along the South Downs Way. I was quite excited to see it, because it turned out not to be just a QR code, but also incorporated an NFC chip and a LAYAR augmented reality image. I’m quite dismissive of QR codes, but only because some people get over excited about what is, after all, just another way of inputting a URL into a browser. Continue reading →

Maybe I’m on the wrong path. Perhaps I’m on a deserted Scottish Island, just like the one in Dear Esther, wandering down a path that is going to come, in time, to a dead end, I won’t be able to climb the rocks, or I will slip down a cliff and find myself on the path I should have taken. Continue reading →

“There are very few books on new media worth reading.” (Galloway. A, 2012, 1) My supervisors said something very similar in our first meeting, but despite that assertion, exploring the university library last week, I came across The Interface Effect (2012 Alexander R Galloway). It looked interesting, so I took it out. Continue reading →

Remember that bit at the beginning of The Fifth Element, when the professor is trying to read the ancient pictograms and the sleepy boy keeps letting the mirror drop? Turns out what that professor needed was RTI. I spent a fun day today working alongside volunteer guides at Winchester Cathedral. But we were not giving tours. We were taking pictures of graffiti. But with some of these scratches in stone and wood hundreds of years old, they could be difficult to read. Continue reading →