May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A series of speakers talked about implementing or adding AR to art projects. The people had to overcome both technical and artistic challenges to achieve their desired responses. BC Biermann and Ean Mering from City Visions are artists who do large outdoors projects around the world. Their…
June 4, 2013, Augmented Reality Expo, Santa Clara, CA—The AR.org group presented awards to a number of companies for excellence and innovation. The group is working to get 1B active users of AR by 2020. They host a number of events to educate and boost awareness about AR, and hatch AR initiatives and help bring…
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…