Does the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protect the right to augment reality? As with most legal questions about augmented reality (or “AR”), we can’t answer definitively, because no court has yet considered the issue. But with consumer-level digital eyewear just around the corner, we will soon be faced with questions just like[...]
Augmented Reality Eyewear & the Problem of Porn [FROM THE ARCHIVES]
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 By 7 Comments
[This article was originally posted on May 2, 2012.] 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[...]
Augmented Reality Eyewear & the Problem of Porn
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 By 2 Comments
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 1 Comment
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 2 Comments
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 Leave a Comment
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[...]
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