mehan's itp blog

A blog documenting my work at NYU ITP. Visit my main site at mehanjayasuriya.com for more information.
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Photo of me demoing The 4D Pop-Up Book of Halloween at the 2011 ITP Winter show. Thanks to Spike McCue for the photo!

Photo of me demoing The 4D Pop-Up Book of Halloween at the 2011 ITP Winter show. Thanks to Spike McCue for the photo!

Above you’ll find a video demo for The 4D Pop-Up Book of Halloween, an augmented reality children’s book that I built as part of my research at NYU ITP. It’s a handmade pop-up book that’s embedded with a different QR code on each page. When the reader scans the codes using a webcam-equipped device and a companion Mac/Windows/Android application, it produces an animation onscreen that places the reader inside the story. My goal was to build a book that could bridge the gap between one-of-a-kind artifacts and purely digital experiences. This project was featured in the 2011 ITP Winter Show.