[054] 3D Interior Design Meets Futuristic Mediated Reality

These two stunning videos show use what daily home life might be like in the not-too-distant future. Whether their visionary outlooks are utopian or dystopian, however, is for your to decide.

The digital environments in this first video take on the potential of augmented reality to both shape our household experiences in positive ways and commercialize the last bastions of privacy – our very walls, furniture, furnishings and fixtures.

The second video is perhaps a bit more positive in its outlook, suggesting creative menus that could surround us while we work … it might still look like an information overload scenario, but so would the web had someone showed it to us a few decades ago.
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Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.