Aug 11, 2010 4:04 AM

Augmented Reality: Keiichi Matsuda, Augmented City

*Those bad, eye-hurting three-d effects actually add to the dystopian flavor of this nifty piece of design fiction.

*This is the same guy who did the superb "Domestic Robocop" AR video.

http://www.keiichimatsuda.com/

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

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