Not long ago, I had the opportunity to sit down for coffee with two high-ranked players of the popular AR game “Ingress.” If you’re not familiar with the game, it’s a massively multi-player experience shared by people across the globe. Players organize themselves into thousands of cells aligned with one of two factions–the “Enlightenment”[...]
A Hollywood Insider’s Perspective on Location-Based AR and Physical Injury
Friday, September 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday at Vox: the 4D Summit, Dreamworks’ Director of Global Interactive, Chris Hewish, gave a wide-ranging keynote address on Hollywood’s use of augmented reality. One of the examples he cited was “The Witness,” a choose-your-own-adventure-type “movie” that required users to trek all over Berlin looking for markers that unlocked video content. He showed the following[...]
[From the Archives] The Coming Conundra: Real Laws in an Augmented Reality
Friday, August 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
While I’m away on vacation, I’ve pulled this still-timely article from my archives. It was originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of SideBAR, the newsletter of the Federal Bar Association’s Litigation Section, and was posted on Wassom.com in March 2011. Over the past decade, there has been no shortage of articles, CLEs, and speeches[...]
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[...]
AR & the Law – My Presentation at the Mobile AR Event
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On October 11, I had the great honor of presenting at the Mobile AR Event, held in San Diego during the CTIA Enterprise & Applications Conference. It was a privilege to share the stage with representatives from such AR pioneers as daqri, Layar, GoldRun, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Metaio, Second Site, and others. My subject, appropriately enough,[...]
The Coming Conundra: Real Laws In an Augmented Reality
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
(c) 2010 Brian D. Wassom. This article was originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of SideBAR, the newsletter of the Federal Bar Association’s Litigation Section. Over the past decade, there has been no shortage of articles, CLEs, and speeches in legal circles about the implications of “virtual reality.” Many an academic hand has been[...]
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