I watched this talk by Kevin Slavin at Mobile Monday Amsterdam three times already (which explains why it took me so long to post it here), and I still can’t understand what are his issues with augmented reality. One claim is obvious, and I tend to agree, that immersion is neither necessary nor sufficient for [...]
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It’s been almost 4 years since I first got involved in the augmented reality community, and 2.5 years of actively blogging about it. During those years I’ve seen many try to define what’s AR and even more importantly what’s not. Many arguments whether GPS based, projection based or webcam based AR should be regarded as [...]
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There are a few topics that I’ve been planning to write about for months (if not years). One of them is the role sports enthusiasts (joggers, swimmers, bicycles fanatics) may have in the adoption of augmented reality head up displays. The recent onslaught of hi-tech ski goggles was the push I needed to finally do [...]
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Just playing around with Google Ngram viewer. If you didn’t get to try it yet, it’s a tool that shows the number of times a phrase appears in a big corpus of books that Google scanned. So, “augmented reality” popularity is rising: but, it still has a lot to go (at least when compared to [...]
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I know some of you already seen the following clip on other blogs, but when I contacted Keiichi Matsuda two weeks ago, he asked me to wait till the final version is ready. Luckily, the wait was shorter than expected. Keiichi Matsuda, the creator of the now famous dystopian short clip Domestic Robocop, is at [...]
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Jesse Schell gave what can only be described as a “kick-ass” keynote in ARE2010. In less than 30 minutes he gave me so many points to think about when considering augmented reality in 2020, that I couldn’t help but watch his presentation again, even though the video quality is less than perfect. I will do [...]
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Looking at the list of best selling applications for the iPhone, I started thinking (usually a dangerous habit). On the one hand, augmented reality wants to be mobile, and the best avenue for mobile AR we currently have are smart phones. On the other hand, we often imagine augmented reality (and surely AR games) as [...]
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Sorry for the attention grabbing title, but remember how we all celebrated when augmented reality passed virtual reality on Google trends, showing an exponential growth rate? (source) Well, it sure looked promising back last September, but since then, the interest in AR has stopped increasing, at least when measured is search volumes and news references [...]
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Tish Shute holds such great interviews for UgoTrade, that it should be considered a crime not to read them if you are an augmented reality fan or professional. Her last interview with Anselm Hook is especially interesting and engaging. However, Tish’s pieces are usually quite long, and may be intimidating. In order to lure you [...]
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