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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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What I Want For Augmented Reality in 2010
I was going to expand on my predictions that Rouli had posted on Games Alfresco because, frankly, they were pretty lame (mine and not the other nine, those were good.) But decided that there have been enough predictions for 2010. So instead, I wa...
Augmented Reality Year in Review – 2009
The year 2009 has been an important milestone in the development of augmented reality as an important future technology. While markers and marketing campaigns captured the early interest of the year, the bigger story was the porting of augmented r...
Whisper Deck: Voice Controlled Augmented Reality
Wonderful proof-of-concept integration of voice recognition, web search, and FLARToolkit on a Vuzix+ARCam HMD. Certainly makes me drool for a commercial see-through HMD with an iPhone/Android level of operating system. His system also points in ...
Augmented Reality Car System
Mobile computing devices are wonderful for bringing the world of information to our fingertips anywhere we go. Hurtling down the highway in one ton vehicles while trying to access our maps or find directions is not the safest way to drive. This v...
10 Games That Could Be Made with Layar 3.0
The new Layar 3.0release brings more functionality to the reality browser. To help people envision what the service can do, Layar touts five new use-cases: Five Layar 3.0 Use-Cases 1) Architecture Showcase – Visualize the final building at a ...
More Augmented Reality Magic with Marco Tempest
Marco Tempest blew our collective augmented reality mind-space with his card trick video last spring. This time he pulls back the curtain and shows a little bit of the technology behind his projection AR magic tricks on the streets of Japan. ...
Layar 3.0 Publishing Site is Up
Interesting options contained within the Layar 3.0 release. Auto-trigger actions and POI-to-POI capability will help people make games and other products. I’d love to see a good cheesy choose-your-own-adventure using real places and Hitchh...
Twitter 360 – Augmented Reality App
The newly released Twitter 360 app is sure to make a big splash. The app allows you to see your friends tweets and also track them through your camera view or map view. As far as I know, this is the first iPhone app to utilize the geotagging feat...
Bamzooki – Augmented Reality TV Game Show
Robots battling it out for glory is nothing new. Augmented reality robots racing around real streets and battling on rooftops is so 2010. The BBC show, Bamzooki, is an augmented reality TV game show in which autonomous creatures called Zooks ar...
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...
Brief Video History of Augmented Reality
Nothing new for the initiated, but its a cute and pithy overview that gets points for presentation. Useful if you have a friend or family member that still doesn’t know what augmented reality is. ...
The Eye of the Machine
More video from Sensor Cast’s MobilHD system (see yesterday’s post for more details). MobilHD demonstrates the SPOT automatic object tracking system using a pan-tilt-zoom camera. Unlike simple motion detection, MobilHD employs sophistic...
Facial Recognition is the Future of Social Search
Nokia’s concept video shows what they think mobile computing will be in 2015. The list rounds out the usual suspects of future-tech: cloud computing, geolocative services, service-anywhere and facial recognition, to name a few. The last one...
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...
Thoughts on the Outernet Guidelines Initiative
Ori Inbar (@comogard) tweeted an offer to join the discussion on the Outernet Guidelines Initative. One particular point of their discussion piqued my interest and that’s the subject of privacy issues within the AR web (Outernet, ARNet, Digit...
Virtual Sandbox (Sim City Meets Augmented Reality)
A group of students at the National University of Singapore has developed an AR game similar to Sim City using VRML and ARToolKit. Virtual Sandbox is an educational software targeted at kids between the ages of 4-6. It provides children with an inte...
Interactive Entertainment using Augmented Reality
The use of augmented reality in our daily lives is still a few years away. The technology and business model hasn’t yet reached the point where it’s cheap enough for the masses. The entertainment business is a different story as they...
Augmented Reality in Photo Booth
The interesting part of the video comes after the three minute mark. It appears the software uses face tracking to achieve the special effects and it looks rather robust. The kitty mask makes me wonder if furries are using these programs already ...
Fashionista AR Dressing Room from Zugara
Today RichRelevance and Zugara unveiled Fashionista, a social shopping experience using augmented reality on Tobi. While they still have the dreaded marker (for setting spatial coordinates), the motion capture controls and usefulness of home shoppi...
My Experiences with Junaio
Last week I downloaded Junaio the new 3D augmented reality app from Metaio on my wife’s 3G iPhone. Unfortunately, its not the newer iPhone so I couldn’t test the full capabilities of the app, but its nice that I can use the older model....
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...
Digital Airbrushing with Spatial Augmented Reality
I’m not sure how I missed this at ISMAR09, but wow, I’m impressed. Michael has clearly thought about the user experience and how to make the technology seemless with reality. I’m not entirely sure the eventual application, but ...
Interview with Esquire Magazine about Augmented Reality Issue
On TODAY, Meredit Vieira talked with Esquire’s David Granger about their November augmented reality issue. David shows off the AR portion of the magazine on the show and talks about why Esquire chose to use the nascent technology. David bel...
Augmented Reality Ribbons
Last spring, James Alliban created a sensation with his AR business card. This time he brings us a less practical, but more interesting video of AR ribbons. Here I’ve combined 2 reoccurring themes that run throughout my work – Augmented Reality...
Mr. Jobs, Tear Down This AR Wall!
Reagan famously said, “Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!” While arguments can be made whether Reagan’s challenge had any affect on the end of the Soviet Union, it still marked an important time in history. In that same speech, R...
Another Layar Interview
CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout interviews Layar’s co-founder Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald in this short video. Nothing new exposed, but it’s another example of the growing awareness of augmented reality by the mainstream media. ...
AR Short Story – Sagan’s Law
The first of a trio of short stories I penned earlier this year has made its way to publication. It’s the shortest of the three, but I’m pleased with the result. The story “Sagan’s Law“ has been published in Issue #...
*Sigh* Two More AR Business Cards
I feel like Jerry Seinfeld stressing over minute flaws in my dates like man-hands or low-talking. I shouldn’t complain right? I did ask for an AR business card. I was just hoping for one I could show at a business meeting with my smartph...
Interview with Layar
Isabelle Okane interviewed Claire Boonstra from Layar at eComm. Interview highlights: * Claire wields her smartphone like a lightsaber. * “Very soon will be head-mounted displays.” (Soon is translated in dutch as not next year) * T...
The Augmented Reality Pop Quiz
Think you know everything there is to know about augmented reality? Well, prove it and take the augmented reality pop quiz. If you’re proud of your score, post the results on twitter with the hashtag #arpopquiz or in the comment section if ...
