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 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, [...]
May 17, 2013, Music Meets Science Forum, SwissNex, San Francisco—Brennon Bortz from Virginia Technical University presented their research results in music, sensors, and emotion. The work involves many sensors and other technologies as well as a range of experiments. Controlling music from biofeedback is now relatively easy. The difficulty is in tracking gestures and emotion [...]
May 17, 2013, Music Meets Science Forum, SwissNex, San Francisco—Eduardo Coutinho from the University of Geneva is working to extract the features that evoke emotions in music and voice. Eventually they want to predict which sonic features affect specific emotional responses. In speech, we can detect changes in tone and pitch to understand feelings without [...]
