U.S./Iraq War Memorial 4 Favorite 

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Jan 1 2004

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Online, Washington DC

The U.S./Iraq War Memorial is an augmented reality public art project and memorial, dedicated to the thousands of individuals who have died on both sides of the conflict.
The public can simply download and launch the Layar Augmented Reality Browser app on their iPhone or Android and aim the devices’ camera at the landscape through out the northeastern United States. The application uses geolocation software to superimpose a single computer generated 3D graphic of a casket for each of the 52,036 recorded deaths, enabling the public to see the caskets integrated into the physical location as if it existed in the real world.
The locations of the augmentations are based on data published by The Guardian of the Wikileaks Iraq war logs.
The data points have then been offset based on the precise longitude and latitude difference between Baghdad and the Washington Mall in Washington D.C. This map indicates the location of the augmentation once the GPS offset has been applied.
As far as we know, this might be the first war memorial to acknowledge losses on both sides.

Posted by Andy Bichlbaum on

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