June 5, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—The AR infrastructure needs to move to standards and open platforms to become as recognized and used as USB. Christine Perey from Perey Consultants moderated a panel of people working on those standards. Panelists were Rob Manson from ARStandards.org, Neil Trevett from Khronos, and Martin Lechner from [...]
June 5, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Steve Mann from Toronto University is considered one of the founding fathers of wearable computers. He provided a historical perspective and a look into the possible futures of AR. The origins of wearable computers started with welding glasses. These are dark lenses to protect the eyes from [...]
June 5, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A panel of eyewear vendors addressed some of the important topics of wearable displays. Pete Wassell from Augmate moderated the panel. Panel members were Meron Gribetz from Meta, Judith Baumgarten from Fraunhofer, Anna Jen from Epson, Kayvan Mirza from Optinvent, Steve Mann from Toronto University, John Murray [...]
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Tish Shute from Syntertainment and augmentedreality.org elucidated the nature of the AR industry. The ability to change thoughts into some form of reality is likely to change the nature of human interactions. The technology cycles continue to accelerate to the point where a nominal 10-year cycle for [...]
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Ben Cerveny from GAFFTA described AR as space woven with meaning. The semantics on the street to make objects and services exist in a space will make AR pervasive. Augmented reality will move data into a built environment. For example, map making expanded our consensual model of [...]
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Amber Case from ESRI presented “The Future of Wearable Computing”. The drivers and conditions for adoption are changing as the technologies improve. Among the issues the AR community has to address are constraint, context, and location information. We are still waiting for a realistic wearable display and [...]
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Bruce Sterling, author and futurist described the emerging technologies and directions for the augmented society. The nature of people is changing, and the rate of change in various technologies is accelerating those changes in the society. The technology industries are getting more involved in augmented functions. Google’s [...]
une 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Avi Bar-Zeev from Syntertainment talked about “Inside the Looking Glass”. AR is starting to become cool as the devices get smaller and more functional. The newest technologies are blurring the distinctions between augmented and virtual realities and making them into a spectrum of experiences. Eventually, the hardware [...]
May 28, 2013, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Mountain View, CA—The Santa Clara section of the CE Society opened with a pitch from Tom Coughlin on getting more involvement in the future directions committee. They are working on a number of areas to try to determine realistic future directions for the various technologies. Erick Wolf from [...]
May 17, 2013, Music Meets Science Forum, SwissNex, San Francisco—Peter DiMaria and Ching-Wei Chen from Gracenote described their efforts in aiding discovery through music metadata and automated analysis tools. The company’s approach is to provide a sonic mood and curation service. The challenges of discovery are in the numbers. There are over 10M songs available, [...]
