Razorfish is doing a lot of interesting and sophisticated stuff. Here are some prototype videos of their experience project, if you want to watch more go to their vimeo channel. And if you haven’t done it already, check out their digital outlook report 2009.

DaVinci (Microsoft Surface Physics Illustrator) from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.

DaVinci is a prototype/experiment that blurs the lines between the physical and virtual world by combining object recognition, real-world physics simulation and gestural interface design on Microsoft Surface.

Microsoft Surface Financial Services Application – Razorfish Demo from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.

Microsoft Surface Financial Services application is a joint development between Microsoft and Razorfish. It is an innovative and engaging solution to present banking products to customers within a rich multi-touch experience.

Again I really like how they are also using info graphics to create an even better customer experience especially for complicated financial products.

Amnesia Razorfish – Staff Directory on Surface from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.

The Staff Directory application uses Surface tags printed on all Amnesia Razorfish business cards to show extra information about employees such as blog posts, tweets and flickr photos.

Razorfish reinvented the business card, nice application that enriches the experience of meeting new people.

Another and even bigger update about augmented reality. From the videos that I found over the last 3 weeks you can see that the context gets more and more integrated in the digital projection. VR glasses seem to finally find the way with the help of AR to the consumer, especially for the gaming industry this will be very interesting. For latest updates you can also follow: http://twitter.com/AugmentedAdvert

Augmented reality, remote control cars:

Interaction with an Augmented Reality Avatar

Physics and Augmented Reality – Part 1

Physics and Augmented Reality – Part 2

Gizmondo Augmented Reality Game

AR video projection

AR baseball cards and game
http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/319/
Very impressive to see that you can already play small casual games with AR characters. I expect that we are going to see a lot more of this stuff in the next months.

GE smart grid

Explaination: http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

Introversion’s DefconAR: apocolypse augmented

Augmented Reality toys

Augmented Reality Toys (Work in progress) from Frantz Lasorne on Vimeo.
http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/03/16/surreal-becomes-real-with-toys-and-ar/
Even it’s work in progress this already looks very advanced and I think that there are a lot of board/card games that could easily be re-interpreted with AR tools like this.

AR worms & MRToolKit

AR Lego

This video shows that when you add some animations to AR the user experience get’s even better. Especially for LEGO this totally fits since the brand is all about building up something by your own.

3 years old but still one of the best AR presentations
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6523761027552517909
The helicopter is very impressive and this toy would find a lot of friends in ad agencies

http://www.eranium.at/blog/?p=96&preview=trueI’m a hugh fan of infographics and maps and this might explain why I love this video so much. A great illustration of how you can explain and reinterpret old strories with the help of new technology.

Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

Tim Keil & I are trying to organize a crowd sourcing get together for strategic planners and other people that are interesting in strategy, digital and social media around the re:publica in Berlin. We don’t have any plan what it’s going to be but we will find it out together with you. Join your Planner Stammtisch re:publica 09 group on Facebook and spread the word.

Great video explaining the “we are all friends on Facebook” phenomena. Facebook is not a technology company or a community it’s a massive multiplayer online role game. The goal of the game is to collect as much “friends” as possible… hilarious I especially like the “People, I know from various website, who I’ll probably never actually meet” group and the “pointless internet argument forum”

Via: Oder nicht? & off-the-record