Gallery: Sci-Fi-Infused Videos Show Off Keiichi Matsuda's Vision of the Future
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*Keiichi Matsuda's video "Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop" shows off his sci-fi view of the future.*
. To get this photo and the video below, the researchers had to send someone rappelling up the trees to place cameras. Photo © Sean McCann.02domestic-robocop-in-depth
*"An immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us," says Keiichi Matsuda on his website.*
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*Pop-up menus make using the kitchen a data-driven experience in Matsuda's video "Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop."*
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*Social-media updates float in front of our eyes in Keiichi Matsuda's video "Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop."*
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*"The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape; more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organize," writes Keiichi Matsuda on his website, describing his work.*
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*Is this the city of the future? If Keiichi Matsuda's immersive vision comes true, it could be.*
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*Keiichi Matsuda's 3-D video "Augmented City" takes viewers into a physical environment overlaid with data.*
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*In the habitat depicted by Keiichi Matsuda's 3-D video "Augmented City," data swirls around individuals.*
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*Keiichi Matsuda's calls "The Pusher" a "two-week project for a one-minute film based on addiction/obsession/compulsion."*
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