Entries tagged with: Augmented Reality

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#ifIhadglass

Google Glass: a wearable heads-up display and camera, linked to your mobile device, able to do live recording, searches, route guidance, and more. Available soon for about $1500, and in "explorer" testing now. (The title hashtag -- #ifihadglass -- is...

Posted on February 22, 2013 2:08 PM

Sight Licenses

BERG's Matt Jones asked if I'd be willing to contribute a short essay to a print item he was designing, a little something called SVK. Written by Warren Ellis, drawn by D'Israeli, foreword by William Gibson. Yeah, let me think...

Posted on July 13, 2011 8:57 AM

New Fast Company: Augmented (Fashion) Reality

My latest Fast Company piece is up: Augmented (Fashion) Reality takes a look at what happens when the world of fashion gets ahold of AR technology. It starts out with a scenario. Here's a bit of it: I remember the...

Posted on March 3, 2010 7:27 PM

On the (Augmented) Media

"Sixth Sense," my interview with NPR's On the Media, talking about augmented reality, went live this weekend. Here's the audio: (MP3 download also available.)...

Posted on November 21, 2009 4:45 PM

Atlantic: Filtering Reality

My second article for the Atlantic Monthly hits the shelves this week, and can now be found online. "Filtering Reality" looks at the political implications of augmented reality. It's a theme I've explored before, but the Atlantic editors asked...

Posted on October 13, 2009 10:26 AM

Catching Up

Okay, folks, for the handful of you still following (and the subset thereof who may be interested -- hi Mom!), here's a set of links to recent video and audio interviews. Hour-long interview for Wisconsin Public Radio, on Geoengineering: Kathleen...

Posted on July 13, 2009 1:25 PM

New Fast Company Column: iPhone Augmented Reality

Because it's actually a blogging requirement to write something about new Apple hardware when it's announced. One of the more important features of the new iPhone may be the least-widely heralded by the tech punditry: it has a compass. This...

Posted on June 11, 2009 12:30 PM

New Column Kicks Off

Starting today, I have a ~weekly column at Fast Company, covering technology, ethics and the environment, and innovation, all from a futures perspective. My editor, Noah Robischon, asked me to kick off the column with a topic near-and-dear to my...

Posted on March 24, 2009 12:51 PM

Wednesday Topsight, November 12, 2008

Tick tick ticking in my head. • Nature Does Geo: Nature's blog offers a handy chart comparing the costs and uncertainties surrounding the various commonly-discussed forms of geoengineering. Clip & save! (Note: More bars="better," not necessarily "more of this.") •...

Posted on November 12, 2008 7:33 PM

...And Lest You Think I Was Just Kidding...

Here's a very early version of an augmented reality system for the iPhone from ARToolworks. (Soundtrack Warning: The 1990s wants its rave music back.)...

Posted on August 13, 2008 1:18 PM

Making the Visible Invisible

The Metaverse Roadmap Overview, an exploration of imminent 3D technologies, posited a number of different scenarios of what a future "metaverse" could look like. The four scenarios -- augmented reality, life-logging, virtual worlds, and mirror worlds -- each offered a...

Posted on August 12, 2008 3:21 PM

The Griefer Future

Nice little future you got there. Hate to see something bad happen to it. The blending of the physical and immersive digital worlds -- the metaverse -- inevitably produces bizarre results. I've noted (and we've started to see examples of)...

Posted on June 23, 2008 2:47 PM

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