New Babel AR Official Launch & Salon

Hot off the presses, the official New Babel AR launch flyer (both sides) including handy QR codes. You do have to be in Union Sq. New York to be able to see the installation (having previously downloaded the appropriate app to your phone). New Babel is the first in a series of large-scale, site-specific augmented reality installations, mostly dealing with social issues.

New Babel QR code for iOS App

Here it is at last:

QR code for NewBabel iOS App

Or use this link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1481288714

Multiple Views of New Babel Tower

Views of tower & globe from New Babel

Above is a composite image made of different screen grabs (outside & inside) of the AR image of the New Babel Tower & Globe...these were actually taken in Union Square Park, NYC. Thanks to Minhye (Min) Kwak for development & programming.

New Babel short video

Here is the latest iteration of New Babel, the AR (augmented reality) installation for Union Square Park in NYC:

 The video is very short & without sound. The four images are my (intermediate, unfinished) versions of FDR's Four Freedoms. The installation will fill a large portion of Union Square.

Art (including textures) by me, development & programming by Minhye (Min) Kwak.

New Babel

This is a teaser preview of a forthcoming augmented reality (like virtual reality, but combined with actual visibly real elements and viewed via a handheld device such as a mobile phone or tablet) installation intended for Union Square Park, NYC for October 2019. More information & images to follow. Below is a simulation of the piece inserted into Google Earth 3D view. My daughter, Lizzie, created the tower (Tower of Knowledge) in Fusion 360, btw, based on my original drawing. The globe hovering (rotating) above the tower is textured with the painting we used on my wife's book, A New Global Agenda. In the final version, the tower will not have the golden texture seen below, but a painted one.

New Babel, simulation of augmented reality installation