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The OPEN 2015: Augmented reality check at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station
Called 15 Stations, it’s a project under the Singapore International Festival Of Arts’ pre-fest event The OPEN where visitors can explore the iconic place using an augmented reality app.
Written by Christopher Fok and developed together with students from Nanyang Technological University’s School Of Art, Design and Media (NTU-ADM), the app can let you explore three “routes” at the station, which you can access via three- and two-dimensional “triggers” such as posters or the facade of the railway station itself.
The first route looks to the station’s past and will incorporate images from the National Archives.
Another route was inspired by the story of a real-life regular passenger in the 1970s...
The final route, meanwhile, looks to the future,...The students have created eight animation works imagining the possible futures of the station, including its conversion into a church, a garden, a village or a “friendship station”.