We love hearing when people use Layar to host the first ever Augmented Reality art exhibition in their city or country, and we’re pleased to add Dublin to that list thanks to the event RiseCreatives hosted last weekend!

RiseCreatives is an Ireland-based portfolio site for designers, artists and crafts people founded by sisters Hanorah and Nina Lyons. 

The group created the RiseCreatives layer to house a two-part AR exhibition displaying artwork from eight of its talented members during Dublin’s Culture Night on September 23.

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One of our favorite use cases for Augmented Reality is artistic expression and the ability to make digital statements on top of places and things in the real world. 

Gilt City is artist John Goto’s response to the ongoing global financial crisis expressed in Augmented Reality around London’s Bank of England.

In his latest collaboration with developer Matthew Leach, Goto uses montaging techniques to show “marginal characters isolated in the bustling commercial centre” to draw attention to the widening income gap between the rich and poor.

If you launch the Gilt City layer near the statue of Wellington outside the Bank of England, you’ll see a motley cast of characters including a banker, a naked man, a bullfighter, a drug dealer and several other men of varying occupations asking for money.

As the user, you decide who to give money to and who to zap! If you choose to give money to the person, the black-and-white figure regains its color. If you choose to zap the person, the figure explodes, never to pander to you again (well, until you relaunch the layer, anyway).

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Here at Layar, we want to see the coolest content possible on our platform, so we often help facilitate relationships between proven top-notch layer developers and the brands, publishers or other clients looking for technical help to bring their Augmented Reality concepts to life.

We created the Layar Partner Network to publicly recognize these top-notch developers, and to provide a channel for more personal communication so we can keep up with their latest Layar projects more efficiently. 

What started as a short list of mostly Europe-based developers such as TAB worldmedia, Mobilistar, Muzar and HPSC, has since blossomed into a 55-member group from all across the world!

We recently added three new Partners, and we’d like to introduce them to you!

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As we previously mentioned, Maarten Lens-FitzGerald recently attended the Stream 2011 conference in Athens and brought along some cool new Layar Vision concepts!

These giant posters now hang proudly in our office for those who enter Layar HQ to experience, but we also created a demo video to share that experience with everyone!

If you downloaded the Layar Vision beta (Android only) you can try the Stream11 layer for yourself using these reference images.

Otherwise, just check out the demo video!

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We’ve had a lot of success with our first few webinars, so we’re going to keep it up! Based on attendee feedback, we’ve decided to make this next webinar a Technical Q&A session with members of our product team and developer support.

The Layar Technical Q&A will take place on Thursday, October 13, at 5pm Amsterdam time (CEST). We ask that you submit questions a week in advance (by Thursday, October 6) to webinar@layar.com so we can choose the most relevant ones beforehand and be better prepared to address as many questions as possible.

We welcome general questions related to all aspects of product or layer development. Please keep in mind that we will only be answering questions that benefit both you and the group. 

Register for the Technical Q&A now! And don’t forget to submit your questions to webinar@layar.com! 

If you have urgent or timely requests, please send them to devsupport.layar.com for faster support.