Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's Everywhere. Fifty years after its invention by the British Royal Navy for use by fighter pilots, the technology of layering information on top of our naked view of the world may cross over the line between science fiction and mass consumer experience as soon as next month.
It's widely believed that the operating system for the iPhone 3Gs will be updated this Fall, possibly in September, to allow developers to use the phone's location awareness and internal compass to orient displays of information and imagery placed on top of the view through the camera. "The internet smeared all over everything. " An "enchanted window" that turns contextual information hidden all around us inside out. Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Five Futuristic. The annual meeting of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2009, takes place in New Orleans this week.
The event brings together some of the world’s best digital artists and computer researchers and is a showcase for some interesting new interfaces. Here are five particularly cool ideas that will be on display at this year’s event. 1. Touchable Holography. Augmented Reality Toys.v2 (Work in progress) Virtualization Gate: Siggraph 2009 Emerging Technologies - une v.