I am amazed by the flurry of augmented reality "personal" applications being introduced lately. While the technology has been around for a while, people figuring out different ways of layering real-world views with data is simply phenomenal.
One of the most engaging and exciting to watch, however, is the gaming interface shown in this video. More about the game can be found at http://julianoliver.com/levelhead
Now here is an app that is immediately usable and meaningful. I love that it doesn't require web or wi-fi connection. Sure it requires 3GS, but it is great to see this kind of app in the store! Now if it could just tell me where I left my keys.
Good post on this at http://mashable.com/2009/09/24/bionic-eye/ and keep those augmented reality apps coming.
The growing tsunami of digital content continues, as our mobile devices evolve into wireless leashes that keep us tethered to the online content we seem to crave and the social tweets that stroke our collective ego. The sudden commercial flurry of "augmented reality" mobile apps and the patent on adding AR to contact lenses... where is it all headed? No one seems to know, but in the near term it means that lots of advertising dollars will be headed to the wireless mobile world. How about tweet ads and RSS feed ads? Special personalized coupon discounts that project on your AR contact lenses as you walk down the store aisle. The technology all exists today. Shift happens.
Update: Cablevision Rools Out Interactive Ads
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE58E89W20090915
Wow! New to me, but it seems that startups Dexrex.com and Silentale.com are both aiming to "store all your digital conversations in one place and allow you to access them (and search them) from anywhere." As our various social conversations start to bleed over from one service to another, it is increasingly difficult to track them. Google's Wave product seems to offer promise of pulling our "conversations" into it's interface. The above-mentioned offerings combine various instant messaging client conversations and mobile SNS texting and Silentale (just launching in beta) aims to consolidate your conversations and contacts from all platforms that you use: your webmail, your social networks, and your mobile phone. By “digital conversations”, Silentale means literally anything you say to someone privately (email, chat, sms, dm) or publicly (twitter, @replies etc). Tools like these will become more necessary as new social media services attract each of us and encourage us to venture outside the social sites we started in. |
