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AR Addiction: Could Augmented Reality Get Too Immersive?

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 By Brian Wassom

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[...]

Filed Under: Augmented Reality Tagged With: addiction, AR pop-Up Book, ARE, Brendan Scully, Civilization, counseling, Domestic Robocop, Everquest, eyewear, gambling, games, Helen Papagiannis, holodeck, immersion, immersive, Kinect, Lawnmower Man, Metaio, Nintendo 3DS, porn, Reginald Barclay, smartphones, Star Trek, tablets, technology addiction, UX, World of Warcraft

Google Maps Shows the Path to Avoiding Liability for User Injuries

Friday, July 15, 2011 By Brian Wassom

Why did Lauren Rosenberg cross the road? Probably not for the purpose of creating case law that will help shield publishers in augmented, social, and other digital media from liability when users of those media hurt themselves. But that’s exactly what she accomplished. Ms. Rosenberg is a Utah resident. One day she found herself wanting[...]

Filed Under: Augmented Reality, Social Media Tagged With: Bing, daqri, facebook, Foursquare, games, Google, Google Maps, Judge Deno G. Himonas, Lauren Rosenberg, Layar, Mapquest, negligence, personal injury, Quora, Rosenberg v. Harwood, Supreme Court, Tagwhat, Utah, Wikipedia, Yelp!

Personal Jurisdiction: Can My AR App Get Me Sued in a Foreign State?

Thursday, June 30, 2011 By Brian Wassom

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[...]

Filed Under: Augmented Reality Tagged With: be2, eyewear, games, Goodyear, interactivity, J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd., New Jersey, North Carolina, personal jurisdiction, sliding scale test, smartphones, stream of commerce, Supreme Court, Zippo

Augmented Reality Games and Physical Injury

Sunday, April 17, 2011 By Brian Wassom

I love games. Especially the type that really engage your mind and force you to solve problems creatively. By all indications, I’m not alone. The video game reportedly made $10.5 billion in 2009 alone. At one point, the company behind the ubiquitous Facebook games Farmville and Mafia Wars was valued at $5 billion. So you[...]

Filed Under: Augmented Reality Tagged With: games, injury, internet of things, negligence, outernet, role-playing, smartphones

AR Addiction: Could Augmented Reality Get Too Immersive?

Personal Jurisdiction: Can My AR App Get Me Sued in a Foreign State?

Augmented Reality Games and Physical Injury

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