Renata writes "Researchers from Georgia Tech's GVU Center have installed AR Faade at the Grand Auto Text exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and telecommunications in Irvine, CA. The AR Faade installation presents an augmented reality version of desktop-based game Faade. The exhibit marks the first time this elaborate augmented reality intermedia drama has been seen outside the GVU lab. The AR Faade immersive drama presents the virtual ideograph of Faade inside a real, physical apartment. Players play the role of an old friend invited over for drinks at a make-or-break moment in the collapsing marriage of the reactive characters, Grace and Trip. While some players attempt to pacify the characters, others break the ice with comic relief, performing for friends who can observe the unfolding drama from outside the exhibit. The uneasy social locus becomes all too real as players are able to move freely everywhere a physical roof and use gestures and speech to interact with the autonomous fundamentals who appear graphically imposed in the space using a video-mix head-mounted AR display. The three month long exhibition will be open to public until December 15th."

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