Jun 23, 2009
We’ve missed you, too.
Wow. It’s hard to believe that it’s been over three months since we last pulled ourselves out of our actionscript induced stupor and posted to this blog. It’s been one heck of an augmented reality hangover.
But besides bringing sexy back, a lot of cool stuff has happened in squidder land:
For one, we’re coming out of the closet. That’s right: we’re all proud creative developers at the Washington, DC office of AKQA. We’re going to start talking a little more openly about our daily office work, so hopefully that means more interesting topics for you to read and more funny pictures for us to make.
And while we certainly don’t speak for the whole company when we post here (there are many other, far more talented developers who work in our offices all over the world who probably don’t want their good names tarnished by pictures of unicorns and Star Trek: TNG references), we do feel confident in saying that we’re the best looking flash devs this side of tellTarget.
For two, we launched a most excellent AR campaign for USPS, call the Virtual Box Simulator. It’s been getting some very nice attention and we’re proud to have found something useful to do with all of our experiments here.
Three: We got picked up both by Adobe in Japan and and PAGE in Germany. We sure fooled them.
Four: This guy played our drums with his face. This is why we get up in the morning.
Anyway, we’ve learned some good lessons in the past three months, but we have to clean out the 4,525 spam comments that we received since we last logged into WordPress. After that, we’ll be in the sharing mood, so watch this space.
Ahh, so you guys did the Virtual Box Simulator! I was really impressed with that – one of the first genuinely useful applications of AR. A great idea, well done!
Great to hear you’ll be posting more too – I’m looking forwards to more unicorns and whatever you guys decide to share. Keep up the good work.
I really had good fun playing FlarDums on my face. This augmented reality was new for me and I think it’s pretty cool.
Keep up the good work guys.
aww, i’ve missed you. really!
the USPS thing was you, huh? nice!
gave you a lil’ shout out on the tutorial i finished up a few days ago for FLARManager:
http://words.transmote.com/wp/flarmanager/inside-flarmanager/basic-augmented-reality/
good to see you’re still making FLARToolkit do good things!
Thanks Eric! Looks like you’ve really grown FLARManager out — can’t wait to see where it goes next!
Somehow, I’m not surprised to hear that you guys are an AKQA crew. Greetings from our office by the bay! And killer work, keep it up! Always a fantastic (and hilarious) read.
J
…must say there are a few Flash devs in AKQA London (UK) that are more attractive than most devs…but that’s not that hard! hehe
Love the work and thanks for sharing – AKQA London have a top secret blog…far prefer your guys openness and willing to share with the community!
Lezlea