Phoenix proposes to develop a cross-platform framework for augmented reality applications designed for mobile technologies, such as the iPhone. He intends to make this framework an open-source project in which not only are people free to contribute to the development of the framework itself, but also to freely use the framework in the pursuit of creating art. This framework will allow media (including, but not limited to, images, sounds, and text) that will be tied to geographic location and heading.
In this way, media can overlay the camera feed from the mobile device. In a sense, it is an extensible means of providing virtual metadata for our real surroundings. In addition, this metadata has the ability to function dynamically, e.g. sounds are free to move about the virtual space encouraging users to explore simultaneously the virtual and real environment. Phoenix provides two examples of potential artistic projects developed with this framework. The first example is a method of gathering historical information concerning one's surroundings. The user points his mobile device at a building, say, and the camera feed is overlaid with old photographs of the site. The user can then download extra information about the general area during that time period. His second example is creating a virtual concert in which the user explores a space, hearing different sounds coming from different directions. As the user gets closer to a particular location tied to a sound file, the volume becomes louder, generating an effect of sound objects in space. There exist many more possibilities for the use of Phoenix's proposed framework.
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