Regardless of your moral outlook, porn is a serious and growing sociological ill. It may not be the same type of problem as crystal meth, child predators, or terrorism. But it is a problem–and one that will get an order of magnitude worse when AR eyewear hits the market. How Internet Porn Affects Society Today[...]
Stealing a Glance: Eye Tracking, AR, & Privacy
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 By
The science of tracking eye movements to determine what draws our interest has been around for more than a century. Retailers, product designers, and advertisers use it to figure out how to grab consumers’ attention. Website designers use it when deciding how to lay our content on a page. But augmented reality eyewear is likely[...]
5 Predictions for Augmented Reality Law in 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 By
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[...]
Personal Jurisdiction: Can My AR App Get Me Sued in a Foreign State?
Thursday, June 30, 2011 By
Picture this: a European software company writes an augmented reality program that allows people to discover information in their respective locales. An end user in New Jersey downloads the app, and is injured while using it. (Maybe it gives her bad directions that cause a traffic accident, or maybe it gives her improper instructions[...]
Everything Illuminated: Taggants as Ubiquitous AR Markers – Part 2
Friday, June 10, 2011 By
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[...]
A Trillion Points of Light? Taggants as Ubiquitous AR Markers – Part 1
Thursday, June 2, 2011 By
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[...]
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