Day One of ARE2012 in Santa Clara is now complete. It’s been a full day. My personal highlight was participating in the panel discussion ““Augmented Reality & Its Challenges in the Civil & Criminal Justice System” with best-selling author Daniel Suarez, cybercrime investigator Captain Joseph Rampolla, Cybercop Portal founder Kevin Manson, Daqri CEO Brian[...]
Will the Law Require Augmented Reality for the Disabled?
More than 50 million Americans – 18% of our population – have some form of disability. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) was adopted to ensure, among other things, that no one is “discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages,[...]
5 Predictions for Augmented Reality Law in 2012
This could finally be the year that the public begins to see augmented reality as a serious, important technology. Lance Ulanoff, the editor-in-chief at Mashable, certainly thinks so. He listed AR as the first of “5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012.” “Trust me,” he wrote, “by 2013, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who[...]
Everything Illuminated: Taggants as Ubiquitous AR Markers – Part 2
In my previous post on this subject, I described a future in which “taggants” (trackable micro- or nano-sized particles) are everywhere–in the paint on a building, the fabric of our clothes, impregnated in the metal and plastic of our consumer goods and vehicles … even in clouds of dust. A ubiquitous network of machine-recognizable[...]




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