Le Marsupilami débarque dans le JT de 20 heures de TF1 ! (Vidéo) Apple and Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google-Tinted Glasses. Google’s augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model.
If you don’t even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why would you need to buy the latest iPhone or spend so much time on Facebook? It could be a year before Google eyewear reaches stores, but that’s why these and other tech companies need to strategize now. If they wait to see if the device is a hit, the world could be seeing through Google-tinted glasses by the time they adapt. Apple and Facebook’s bet might be to team up… If you haven’t heard, Google today announced it is beginning public tests of augmented reality glasses with the codename Project Glass. Cramming all the functionality into a sleek set of glasses is going to take time and effort, but the Google(x) skunklabs is on it.
Here’s what I see as their best courses of action: Apple Should Compete But Apple is the world’s greatest hardware company. Facebook Should Team Up With Apple. How Augmented Reality Helps Doctors Save Lives. I'm in Santa Clara, California this week attending (and speaking) at the Augmented Reality Event - a conference focused on the business of AR that has experts from across the world gathered to share their ideas.
While at the event, my goal has been to hunt down innovative and unique real-world practical applications for augmented reality in order to shed light on the usefulness of the technology. According to Dr. Michael Aratow, augmented reality is playing a huge role in the medical field, and some of his examples of medical AR were fascinating. According to Aratow, Chief Information Officer for San Mateo Health Services, AR has been used in the medical field for nearly ten years. For a long time, AR lived on high-tech levels, and producing products that leveraged it required advanced computing technology only available to large corporations. These visualizations can also extremely useful tools for educating both students and children about medicine. Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare. When explaining the concept of augmented reality to someone who has never heard of it, I find myself going through a series of common real-life and pop-culture examples to help them understand.
Aside from explaining that the "1st and Ten Line" in football games and the computer vision of the Terminator are indeed forms of augmented reality, I often use examples from the military - the fighter pilot heads-up-display, for example - as well. In fact, the military has played a significant role in the early development of AR, and one company is attempting to make sure it is a large factor in the future of the technology as well. A Chicago-based company called Tanagram Partners is currently developing military-grade augmented reality technology that - if developed to the full potential of its prototypes - would completely change the face of military combat as we know it. All of this technology can also be monitored from a central base location by military leaders.