Anders Lundgren

Field archive 2016–2021

A construction worker in a Skanska vest and a red hard hat with a mounted HoloLens, seen from behind at a foundation. A model in cyan, magenta and green is overlaid on the real reinforcement.
STHLM New, 2018. Shot through the visor: the coloured geometry is the model, everything else is the site.

Most of what is left of Information Experience is pictures. The code is wound up, the cloud services are switched off, the hardware is obsolete — but the captures survive, and they show something about that which text struggles to convey: how little of this looked like science fiction, and how much of it looked like a construction site with colour on it.

Nearly everything below is a mixed reality capture: taken through the headset, by the headset, with the model composited exactly as the wearer saw it. That makes them unusually accurate for marketing material. What is coloured is the model, everything else is the world, and when a hologram sits wrong in a picture it sat wrong in the room too.

The selection is narrow. What appears here was either published once — as the company’s own material or in the trade press — or is legible to someone who was not there. That second test cuts more than one would think: most raw captures are unreadable to an outsider, with debugging overlays in frame or geometry that means nothing without context. Unpublished images with identifiable people stay in the archive.

2016 — first attempts

A building model in cyan and green sits as a hologram on an office table beside a laptop.
December 2016. The earliest capture I still have: the model is on the table, not on the screen.
An office space with lockers. Red pipe runs and a blue valve are visible through the wall on the right as holograms.
October 2016, Epicenter Stockholm. The first attempt at showing building services through a wall.

2017 — the rebar, and the app beside it

The year the ESS pilot in Lund drew attention. That story has a page of its own: Fem till tio centimeter, in Swedish. What drew no attention was the iPad app beside it, and that is the one that shows the underlying server technology the company was actually building.

iPad screenshot with a single reinforcement bar selected. A panel shows its mark, shape, length, weight, count and grade.
One bar selected, with its full property set: mark, shape, dimensions, weight, grade K500C-T. This is what "underneath, it was a database company" means — the headset was the view, this was the content.
A photogrammetric city model of a district sits as a hologram on a table in an open-plan office with brightly coloured furniture.
A photogrammetric city model — Norrköping, scanned by SpotScale — on a table at Epicenter Stockholm, 2017.
Close-up through a pair of HoloLens lenses, with a model in magenta, cyan and green visible in the glass against a greyscale background.
What the wearer actually sees. The bright band in the glass is the entire field of view available to the hologram — the world is still there, but the model exists only in that window.

2018 — into production

A corridor under construction where ducts and pipes are overlaid as green and cyan holograms below the ceiling.
Building services overlaid on a corridor at the Tändstickan project in Gothenburg, May 2018.
The same corridor six seconds later without the model: real pipes, ducts and insulation below the ceiling.
The same corridor six seconds later, without the model. That is what the comparison is about — not whether the picture looks good, but whether the green in the previous frame sits where the grey sits here.
A street litter bin with an information panel beside it: object information, name Papperskorg Urban, owner the Stockholm traffic authority, reference designation and warranty date.
Odenplan, February 2018. A litter bin with its own CoClass designation, owner and warranty date. It is the least spectacular image in the archive and the one that points furthest ahead: the operational phase is where the information has to live for fifty years, not the build.

2020–2021 — and then other things

A cartoon avatar stands in a greyscale photogrammetric scan of an office space with pictures on the wall.
November 2020. A real venue scanned by photogrammetry and rebuilt as a VR world for a company event with some fifty participants. The pandemic year moved the demand from the construction site to the meeting room.
Screenshot of an App Store listing: IntrospectAR by Information Experience, free, with an icon showing a thermal camera image in purple and orange.
IntrospectAR — real-time meshing on an iPhone with a clip-on thermal camera. The last trace of the company still standing, but never explored on-site.

About the material

The images are re-encoded for the web and nothing else — no retouching, no colour correction. All EXIF has been stripped, because several captures come from sites that are not publicly accessible.

More pictures sit in the pages where they belong: the rebar app and the survey point in Fem till tio centimeter, the foundation in Ritningen som redan var gammal, and the kit on iXperience.