"A spooky immersive game is happening at the old Griffith Park Zoo"

The LA Times wrote up "Ghost in the Machine: The Old Zoo" an augmented reality experience playing for a limited time this weekend.

Here's what the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory "shared reality" experience looks like at Cosm

@geekandfab A feast for the senses at the premier of @Cosm @CosmLosAngeles Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory last night. #willywonka #imagination #cosm #sharedreality #experience ♬ Pure Imagination - Kathleen

@cosmlosangelesca Step into the Premiere of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in #SharedReality ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles

@cosmlosangelesca Enter a World of Pure Imagination… don’t miss Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in #SharedReality at Cosm! 🎩 #movie #fyp #immersive #wildlife ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles

@cosmlosangelesca Turns out Veruca Salt is a good egg after all! 😂 #WillyWonka #Cosm #SharedReality #verucasalt ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles

(Big miss, huge, if The Unknown isn't wandering around)

Free download of the latest overview of larps

Here's the download. And here's a bit about it:

For the past 25 years, the Nordic Larp community has published a free journal of ideas and theories and debates. This year, I contributed an article viewing the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser through the lens of larp, and in particular, large-scale spectacular "blockbuster larps"!

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— Adrian Hon (@adrianhon.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM

While the Starcruiser wasn't perfect, I argue that much of the criticism surrounding the Starcruiser is incomplete and flawed. For example: - Disney's financial situation and shareholder battle in 2022-23 required it to raise lots of cash quickly - High official guest feedback scores

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— Adrian Hon (@adrianhon.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Anyma at The Sphere

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Fan concept for Apple Augmented Glasses featuring Siri

Siri Glasses pic.twitter.com/TPjFn7whsj

— Fons Mans (@FonsMans) August 13, 2024

Mixed reality game fills your house with ghosts

Just found out you can also play this on Quest. Happy haunts! https://t.co/JKyHyBseOA

— Nathie 🔜 Meta Connect (@NathieVR) September 4, 2024

(Mediocre reviews from what I saw, but promise is there)

Neo's Matrix Vision app for the Vision Pro

I made an app that lets you see the Matrix (literally)
byu/tracyhenry400 inVisionPro

The app.

Siri looks like a Bit from Tron in Apple's Vision Pro

This is what "spatial Siri" looks like. Kind of wish it would fly around and light your room up like the fairy in Zelda though. pic.twitter.com/hLn6N0gPD4

— Ben Lang 🔜 SPIE AR/VR/MR (@benz145) January 24, 2024

I've only seen it briefly but it just stayed in place (other than pulsating as you'd expect)

— Ben Lang 🔜 SPIE AR/VR/MR (@benz145) January 24, 2024

From a preview of the goggles:

I finally got to try, for instance, the long-promised Siri integration.

I had opened a few windows that were floating around my mixed reality space (generated screens overlayed on the real room). When it was time to close them, I said, “Siri close my apps.” The apps instantly shut down as a lovely floating orb Siri appeared, waiting for my next request. In what I can only describe as a glow-up, Siri in the headset is a translucent, floating glass ball with the iconic Siri graphics swimming inside of it. 

Augmented reality golf

Oh you know, just hitting a few golf balls in my dining room through a magic portal in mixed reality on the Quest 3. No big deal. #Quest3 #mixedreality pic.twitter.com/2vqY3NduEc

— Matt - BMFVR (@bmfshow) December 16, 2023

Alf vtuber skin

This livestreaming/Vtuber setup now has hands & face tracking on a single PC and webcam. Using a custom Unity app and Snap Camera Kit (for Web).

I also finally got smoothing and 60fps interpolation working well on the Snapchat tracking data-stream. pic.twitter.com/Q5pMBSIvvI

— Brielle Garcia (@tacolamp) December 6, 2023

Haha yea it skips the ring finger.

— Brielle Garcia (@tacolamp) December 6, 2023

Football helmet with augmented reality display for deaf players so the coach can send in the play visually

It'll be used for the first time in a college game this weekend.

Using augmented reality to flood an apartment with the water from Zelda Wind Waker

Flooded my apartment with the water from Zelda Wind Waker 🌊 #AugmentedReality pic.twitter.com/pn09vhhAcA

— I▲N CURTIS (@XRarchitect) September 7, 2023

Using augmented reality to create portals

Had an idea how to do portals in AR last night and it actually kinda worked pic.twitter.com/y0cMksPsrX

— Lee Vermeulen (@Alientrap) May 18, 2023

Bonus, virtual reality Where's My Water:

Augmented reality goggles

Just me and @noazark showing the amazing #opensource North Star headset with the very cyberpunk background of #Shenzhen city. Nothing to see here, especially for @SadlyItsBradley.#AugmentedReality #VirtualReality pic.twitter.com/HN7fJOkebc

— TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) February 5, 2023

Probably the most useful preview of Nintendo Wold at Universal Studios

I think part of the problem is we were the 3rd time slot, and they had no system to kick people out when the previous time slots ended, so by the time we got in it was at like triple capacity. So we just decided to not stress and see what we could, but idk when I'll see the rest

— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) January 30, 2023

Ironically we were the only time slot where they were pretty prompt about kicking people out, because they had the land booked for some kind of private party after us. Actually our reservation for the restaurant came up after our time had ended but the staff kindly let us in

— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) January 30, 2023

If decent augmented reality glasses with user generated content ever become a reality, these theme parks are going to look incredibly quaint:

The future of the web looks different. Here is another WebAR experiment. Look at those details 👀 #AugmentedReality pic.twitter.com/aPxflc51Do

— I▲N CURTIS (@XRarchitect) January 26, 2023

Augmented reality dining

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This is so cool! I wonder if the restaurant will charge you for the “virtual food” served on your plate too.pic.twitter.com/UmAsUcNHIG

— hardmaru (@hardmaru) October 6, 2022

A review from when this was in LA:

At a little over the expected two-hour mark, I left the Ritz-Carlton satisfied, if not gastronomically wowed, with the same sort of starry-eyed exuberance one feels after leaving a good movie at the theater. It might be easy to deride the obviously made-for-social aspects of Le Petit Chef from the outside, but the concept’s unique, experimental animation and whimsical, interactive storyline—each diner leaves with a "certification of completion"—left me simultaneously delighted and impressed by the combination viewing-dining experience. Not every dinner, even for a literal food and drink editor, needs to actually taste amazing to be memorable, and a meal at Le Petit Chef is unequivocally that.

While I wouldn’t recommend Le Petit Chef for hardcore "food people," the power of managed (or low) expectations remains unparalleled, and those who have the disposable income and the desire to check the Downtown dinner series out will find themselves truly, deeply entertained by what amounts to a form of cutting-edge dinner theater. 

Remarkable cover for "Winning Post 3"; Augmented reality business card concept; Horseshoe Crab tattoo idea, perhaps

Winning Post 3 / Saturn / Koei / 1998 pic.twitter.com/louL0BXKUq

— Cool Box Art (@CoolBoxArt) February 11, 2016

Cheap at ebay.

Abandoned cooling tower; Lego version of Cobb Vanth's speeder; Augmented reality jacket

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🤯 cloth physics + refraction math + full body tracking + collision data ALL running in real-time on a single 📱 @SnapAR #ar #xr pic.twitter.com/jzt2pbggEF

— Don Allen Stevenson III (@DonAllenIII) January 12, 2022

Augmented reality version of Squid Game's red light, green light; Custom action figure of Star Wars cyborg bounty hunter Valance; Jodorowsky's Dune bible

We played a little Squid Game AR in @magicleap headsets. (Hololens 2 & other surprises being worked on) pic.twitter.com/zT3XTjIKYS

— Steve Lukas (@slukas) November 24, 2021

Emoji Kitchen Chimera; Lovingly-illustrated Columbo guide; Augmented reality racetrack

OH MY GOD pic.twitter.com/3qQjB6HdUO

— wottermelon🐐 «The Perfect Legend» (@wottermelon) November 12, 2021