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Beyond Realtime Search: The Dawning Of Ambient Streams. The following guest post was written by Edo Segal (@edosegal). It was 1993 and I had just decided to drop out of college. I was a graphic design major in a great art school but decided I want to start my second company. Knowing this would mark the conclusion of my studies there I set out to create my final project. I would write a short story, design and produce it in print. Cut to November, 2009, when I returned from sitting on a panel at the second Realtime CrunchUp. A few days after I got back from the CrunchUp, I was organizing some old documents when I stumbled on I Was Just Dead< , a cyberpunk short story I wrote 16 years ago.

When trying to understand something potentially transformative, knowing what questions to ask is more than half the challenge. Before these building blocks can create an ambient stream which is not overwhelming, all of this data needs to pass through a filter. Putting all of these building blocks together will be an industry-wide task. Augmented Reality in 2010 (part one) Posted on December 7, 2009 by rouli As I’ve said yesterday, we dedicate this week for predicting AR trends in 2010. Over the last few weeks I’ve asked AR luminaries for their predictions, and I’m going to post them over here (before getting insulted for not being asked, first check your spam folder). But more importantly, we are giving you, or beloved readers, a chance to predict the future.

Please use the following survey to chose those predictions that you believe will come true in the next year (you can choose more than one). Hopefully, the wisdom of the crowds will prove itself once more, and we will have a very good sense of what’s going to happen. The results will posts on the first week of January, but please don’t wait, and vote now: <a href=" Our Poll</a> Moreover, feel free to share your own predictions. Like this: Like Loading... Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: | AR2010. Augmented Reality in 2010 (part two)

Posted on December 8, 2009 by rouli Let me be the first to share his predictions (don’t worry, it only gets better from here on). Following are five outrageous, yet reasonable, predictions about augmented reality for the next twelve months. Oprah discovers augmented reality In 2009 she catapulted Twitter to the public eye, and in her last year as day-time host, Oprah Winfrey will do the same for augmented reality. After learning of all the cool features of the latest 4.0 release of Layar, from NY Times columnist David Pogue (“You can actually see where I parked my car with this gadget? That’s amazing!”) Microsoft buys Wikitude April 2010. Augmented Reality is blamed to incite violence amongst teens May 2010. Augmented Playboy February 2010. Apple tries to patent augmented reality And succeeds in doing so. The fine print – I’ve tossed a coin before using Layar for the first prediction and Wikitude for the second. Like this: Like Loading... Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: | AR2010.

Tom Carpenter: Augmented Reality in 2010 (Part 5) Posted on December 11, 2009 by rouli Thomas Carpenter and I have started blogging about augmented reality roughly at the same time, at the start of 2009. Since then Thomas has made The Future Digital Life one of the prime sources for augmented reality news. Moreover, as an aspiring science fiction author and a manager at Toyota, he usually has a unique point of view on the budding AR industry.

Here are his predictions for 2010 (sadly, he decided to keep it professional so there are no snarky remarks): Apple’s tablet will take AR to the next level with object recognition and a wider screen to view the world.There will NOT be any AR related IPOs.A company will come out with an expensive (>$2000) see-through HMD late in the year.Console gaming will start talking about AR more actively (but few games released) Lester Madden has taken the time to write a full post over Augmented Planet elaborating on his predictions I’ve posted yesterday. So what do you think? Like this: Like Loading... Toby Kammann: Augmented Reality in 2010 (Part 8) Today we are lucky to have Tobias D. Kammann shares his predictions with us. Toby is not a stranger to augmented reality, and is involved in the field since 2002.

Currently he is a lead AR developer at RTT (which we mentioned just the other day) and the man behind augmented.org one of the first blogs about augmented reality and still one of the best. Toby was generous enough to write a post full of predictions. Therefore, for sake of readability, I chose not to put his words in “blockquote”, and just paste them below. I know it’s long, but it’s well worth the read. Many of his predictions are original and if only half of them come true, we are going to have a very exciting year. …was definitely the year of AR awareness for the public. 2010 Technology-wise I’m a bit pessimistic on AR handheld device development and HMD/HUD news for the public to be frank. Social ImplicationsA big social discussion will be triggered when google launches their HMD device connected to Android. Like this: Augmented Reality in 2010: A Look Indoors (Part 9) Posted on December 21, 2009 by rouli I was delighted to see that Patched Reality’s Patrick O’Shaughnessey answered my call and shared his augmented reality related predictions for 2010 in his company blog.

It’s Patrick’s first prediction that I find most interesting (though all of them are very good). While many of our prior columns in this series had predictions about how AR will change the way we see the outside world, Patrick reminds us there’s use for indoors AR: While AR browsers like Layar and Wikitude will continue to focus their attention on discovering information that is in the world at large, another class of AR applications will emerge that helps people see what could be in the comfort of their own home. We’ll see a lot more applications released by manufacturers that sell products that go in people’s homes. Ironically, accurate registration and image recognition may not be the main issue preventing AR from coming indoors. Like this: Like Loading... Envisioning Life in 2020. Posted on April 27, 2010 by rouli Be sure to check out Frog Design’s vision of living in 2020, for a dose of augmented reality spectacles via La Realtà Aumentata nelle applicazioni di marketing Like this: Like Loading...

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