Murals have been around for most of human history, but now they’re coming to life. With the help of over twenty-five artists, five students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) transformed an underground tunnel at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a 200-foot long series of augmented reality murals.
Passerbies can appreciate The Borderline Murals in their two-dimensional form, or download the “BorderlineAR” app for their Android or iOS device and watch the murals live and breathe with site-specific animations.
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“The Borderline is a project where we’re really trying to get the MIT community involved with art in a kind of informal way,” Rue said in a video about the project. “It was open to MIT students to just paint a mural that they want, and have it in a public space so that other people could enjoy it and interact with it.”
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Source: Motherboard