WTC Towers and AR – History through technology

augmented realityPublished October 6, 2009 at 9:37 am No Comments

Saw this Vimeo video on Techcrunch from the makers of Wikitude which brings back the World Trade Center Towers as they were through augmented reality.  This addition may be emotional but it also brings to light the potential for historical reference.  Can you imagine what historians and archaeologists with the help from a GIS professional
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Future of mobile web

mobile worldPublished September 11, 2009 at 9:42 am No Comments

Gigaom posted a summary from five user experience experts at this year’s Mobilize 09 event on their views of what mobile web challenges are in the near future.  They covered topics such as connectivity, gestures and marketing.  Sadly there were only snippets of quotes from the panel so not much can be gathered of the overall
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Augmented reality terminator style

augmented realityPublished September 2, 2009 at 10:47 am 1 Comment

Babak A. Parviz, a bionanotechnology expert at the University of Washington in Seattle posted an excellent article about the future of augmented reality through the used of contact lenses.  Currently Mr. Parviz has a proof of concept in Rabbits utilizing contact lenses with one LED output.  The article breaks down the process and problem of
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Floating identity around your mug

augmented realityPublished July 22, 2009 at 11:09 pm 1 Comment

Those crazy guys at TAT, designers of great mobile innovations, are at it again with a new concept, Augmented ID.  Using a similar approach of face recognition demonstrated by MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense project, you can manage what information is displayed about you when someone uses their mobile phone’s camera.  Crazy huh, yeah just watch
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Acrossair’s subway app for the iPhone 3Gs

augmented realityPublished July 16, 2009 at 9:16 am 1 Comment

You are in New York and need to find the nearest subway station, should you ask someone or look up for posted signs? Hell no!  That is so country. The hip-crew folks whip out their uber-cool swanky iPhone 3G s and click on Acrossair’s app.  With the added compass, the new iPhone allows developers like
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