Obscura mesmerizes thousands with mosque and fort Shows in Abu Dhabi.

The results are in for the annual World’s Coolest Office competition. Co-sponsored by Architizer, Inc., and Autodesk. Obscura’s San Francisco headquarters, designed by IwamotoScott Architecture, was selected as the 2011 winner.

Architizer’s feature:
http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/31597/and-the-winners-are/

Inc.com’s feature on us:
http://www.inc.com/articles/201110/coolest-offices-obscura-digital-by-iwamoto-scott.html

The finalists:
http://www.inc.com/ss/201110/worlds-coolest-office-winner-and-honorees

Fast Company likes our opportunities in the health care industry.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1785668/obscura-digital-brings-its-creative-magic-to-health-care

Obscura Digital created a physical, social, augmented reality experience dubbed “Connections” at F8, Facebook’s developer’s conference. Attendees swipe in to the experience using their RFID enabled event badge. Multiple overhead projectors map visuals to the floor and an array of 3D cameras are used to reliably track any number of people within the space.

For more information visit the project page.

Obscura Digital achieves the tallest and brightest projection display to date, for the Coca-Cola Company’s 125th Anniversary event on May 6, 2011. Obscura Digital beamed a high-resolution cinematic show reaching 26 stories high on all 4 sides of the Coca-Cola Tower at their headquarters in Atlanta, GA. For more information visit the project page.

An amazing night at the YouTube Symphony Orchestra event in Sydney, Australia.The Sydney Herald had some nice things to say. A growing list of articles and blogs are chiming in: Forbes, NPR, The Seattle Times.

Some photos from the event:

On Sunday, March 20th at 8pm Sydney, Australia time (2am PST, 5am EST, 9am GMT), Obscura will unveil one of its most creative innovations to date, when it will fuse live experiential technology with a masterpiece of modernist architecture. The iconic Sydney Opera House will become an augmentation of a live symphonic performance, amplifying the artistry of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra event with real-time audio-reactive graphic projections that will simultaneously canvas the interior and exterior of the iconic building with parallel projection shows. Learn more and tune in live at http://www.youtube.com/symphony.

A sneak-peak of the external projection from this evening’s test run.

Obscura win recognition for the CueLight Interactive Pool Table in this year’s Communication Arts Interactive Annual.

“A delightful and innovative addition to a classic game that’s guaranteed to draw eyes.”  —Adrian Belina (CommArts Judge)

The One Club, the world’s foremost non-profit organization devoted to elevating creative work in the industry awards the best in branded entertainment. The One Show Entertainment Awards recognized our YouTube Play event at the Guggenheim Museum with a Silver Pencil Award. Obscura wrapped both the interior and exterior surfaces of the iconic building with real-time 3D graphics and processed event video for the inaugural YouTube Play awards event. See photos/videos and learn more about the event here.

The “Yahoo! Bus Stop Derby” is an integrated marketing campaign which challenges locals to play LCD touch-screen games at 20 high-traffic Muni shelters scattered around San Francisco. This innovative campaign boasts the first-ever interactive digital transit shelters in the U.S. From the early stages of the conception process, the Obscura Digital Team played a leadership role in the consultation, design, and creation of the system’s specialized digital content management system and real-time user-metrics collection system. Obscura Digital also developed and implemented the innovative process integrity service which dials in remote access control for each screen and monitors and updates critical content. The Obscura / Clear Channel Program is projected to grow to over 100 displays by Q2 2011.