The #9 disruptive technology of 2009 according to Gartner

ZDNet just published Gartner’s top 10 disruptive technologies for 2009:

Multicore and hybrid systems
Virtualization and fabric computing
Social networking
Cloud computing
Web mashups
User interface
Ubiquitous computing
Semantics
Augmented reality
Contextual computing

But keep in mind we are looking at a serious downturn which means only a few of the top 10 will actually get funded in 2009. The remaining technologies on the list (including [...]

Live from ISMAR ‘08: Near-Eye Displays - a Look into the Christmas Ball

The third day of ISMAR ‘08, the world’s best augmented reality event, is unfolding with what we expect to be an eye popping keynote (pun intended) by Rolf R. Hainich, author of The End of Hardware.
He is introduced as an independent research and started to work on AR in the early ’90s - so he [...]