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The Future Digital Life attempts to condense some possible futures based on the emerging technologies of today. I will explore future-technologies and their moral, legal and existential impacts on humanity, and besides, technology is fun.
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HMD Augmented Reality Display with Vuzix CamAR
A workable HMD augmented reality unit is a major step forward for the technology. Once a see-through model is available, we can break out of the “magic lens” smartphone. However, a see-through HMD is still a couple of years away and u...
Surveillance Society – A Lesson for the OGI
On the heels of my post yesterday about the Outernet Guidance Initiative and the perils of data harvesting, I find this bit of flotsam foaming out of the datasphere. Don’t be fooled by the lack of presentation fireworks or the bleary-eyed spe...
HMD System at Daimler AG
Head-mounted displays are the killer hardware that augmented reality needs to break free from “magic lens” smartphone technology. SAP TV shows us an industrial application concept at a Dailmer AG plant. The part stocker is using an H...
ISMAR09 HMD Review
The biggest barrier to true augmented vision is an HMD that can handle all the requirements. I had the oppertunity to experience what Microvision, Vuzix and ORALab/EvoOpticks had to offer. I’ll try to relate their talks and my experiences ...
ACME – One Piece of an Augmented World
The augmented world will exist as a shadow to the real one. Rouli from the Augmented Times posted on Friday about the ACME project (Augmented Collaboration in a Mixed Environment.) Leave it to a group of researchers to suck the life from a wonde...
The Telepathy Interface
Our great-grandchildren won’t remember a time they couldn’t use telepathy across the ARNet. Just like children today can’t fathom a world without text messaging. Neuroscience researchers at the University of Berkeley can transla...
UgoTrade Interview with Thomas Wrobel
Yesterday UgoTrade posted a discussion of Thomas Wrobel’s proposal called, “Everything Everywhere: A proposal for an Augmented Reality Network system based on existing protocols and infrastructure.” If you’ve been following ...
BMI Monkey Business
If you’ve been reading this blog awhile, you’ll know I have a fascination with brain-machine interfaces. Both Toyota and Honda have developed thought controlled devices and there are a number of products on the market that can control y...
Toyota’s Mind Controlled Wheelchair
While mind control has more immediate applications for people with disabilities, I also expect it will be a way to control our AR interfaces in the future. The researchers report they have reduced the reaction time down to milliseconds which helps ...
Rat Basketball
Coincidentally, after I finished my post yesterday, I had an email in my inbox from a friend with a link to this article from The Daily Galaxy. The article discusses a University of Florida study about using a BCI combined with learning algorithms ...
My Mind Has A Mind Of Its Own
Sometimes I wonder if thought controlled computers would be a bad thing. During a business meeting daydream would I accidentally surf porn? Fortunately the technology doesn’t work like that yet. But the technology for mind controlled comput...
The Digital Singularity
Newspapers…dead! Compact disc…dead! Bluray… dead! Televisions…dead! Okay, so they’re not dead yet, but they will be. One of the benefits of a digital world is the elimination of wasteful information transportation and ...
