Can you be trusted to design your own reality? Immersed in the Digital World Augmented Reality technology is all about customizing the world around us. Through video-enabled smartphone and tablet apps, and soon directly through eyewear, it overlays digital data over our perception of the physical world. The virtual world gets layered directly on top[...]
A Trillion Points of Light? Taggants as Ubiquitous AR Markers – Part 1
Thursday, June 2, 2011 By 3 Comments
The concept of painting the world with tiny taggants is too big for one blog post. In this first part, I’ll describe what I mean by “ubiquitous marking.” In the second, I’ll outline some of the legal issues that such an approach might raise. The nearly universal sentiment of those who spoke at the recent[...]
Augmenting Automotive Safety
Friday, May 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
Using AR to make the driving experience safer seems to be a hot idea right now. In his keynote speech at the recent Augmented Reality Event (ARE2011) Conference, Jaron Lanier of Microsoft stressed that automobile injuries are at an unacceptably high level–and that AR can help. My recent post examined the opposite side of the[...]
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