Google starts the AUGMENTED WORLD Revolution – right now

Digital Totalitarianism, Cyborg Era or just the "final media device" enabling a better life?

I have been right with my last post – it was a rumor, but now it is proven true! We are entering the cyborg era – a couple of years earlier than I thought. Tagged #acceleration

• Interesting to watch the next  steps in the "GAAF pack" of innovation and digital market leaders – after Google's "step for mankind" – what will Apple, Amazon, Facebook do? Who else will be a relevant player? 
• Will consumers accept the of "totalizing of information", the invasive "ubiquity of advertising"?
• How will law, politics and civil right advocates react?
• Which balance will emerge to enjoy transparency and avoid "digital nudity"?

Watch the video and make your own mind.

 

Google: "We believe technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't.

A team within our Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment."

More:

https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts

 

Google X labs confirms augmented reality glasses project, releases video demo (gizmag)

 

 

Dissssruptive! Google's AR glasses surprising the analyst

Really? Now? In 2012? Are you kidding?

Google digital glasses 'coming soon' - Telegraph 

There is endless buzz around it now (google news "google goggles" ... ) and all you get are rumours and cheap and trivial videos like this one.

 

Grid: AR environment for real-time gaming at an architectural scale

 

 

"Grid is an Augmented Reality environment which provides a spatial configuration for real-time gaming at an architectural scale. This project showcases a prototype of the AR environment devised at one to one scale to test the possibilities of augmented reality in the built environment. The project uses a simple architectural maze which people can navigate through in real-time. The prototype was developed for the iphone using Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK and Xcode."

Source: vimeo.com/34253577

 

 

 

Grid: AR environment for real-time gaming at an architectural scale

 

 

"Grid is an Augmented Reality environment which provides a spatial configuration for real-time gaming at an architectural scale. This project showcases a prototype of the AR environment devised at one to one scale to test the possibilities of augmented reality in the built environment. The project uses a simple architectural maze which people can navigate through in real-time. The prototype was developed for the iphone using Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK and Xcode."

 

 

HoloDesk - Situated See-Through Display

"HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical
see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion
that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual
image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mir-
ror and spatially aligned with the real-world for the viewer.
Users easily reach into an interaction volume displaying the
virtual image. This allows the user to literally get their hands
into the virtual display. A novel real-time algorithm for rep-
resenting hands and other physical objects, which are sensed
by the Kinect inside this volume, allows physically realistic
interaction between real and virtual 3D objects."

Future of television trend report - Immersive TV is one of six trends

Lately I have been co-author of this trend study from Z_punkt The Foresight Company. Augmented Shopping will enter the living room, since tv sets will have web cams by default – see chapter 2.3 Immersive TV .Free download. 

 

Augmented Reality App Uses NASA Tech - Accuracy < 1 Centimeter

As read on popsci.com:

Augmented Reality iPad App Uses NASA Tech to Know Where You Are, Accurate to Under a Centimeter

• Means: Real-time 3-D maps of your environment
• Believe me, you can do incredibly more with this than have another first-person shooter game
• Time to brainstorm ...

Tagwhat goes Storytelling

From the PRWeb:

Tagwhat's New Mobile Application Combines Storytelling Traditions and New Technology for "Great Stories at Places"

Finally our oldest traditions and latest technologies come together to create a location-based mobile service real people can use and enjoy. Just as people chronicled life on cave walls, Tagwhat, a new application for iPhone and Android tells "Great Stories at Places" in vivid multimedia. Pilot partners include the Associated Press and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8622290.htm

 

 

http://www.tagwhat.com.

Mind Map for more stuff, blogs, events: 

augmented-reality-business-connector

 

Easy AR – Hoppala AR Content Platform opens to all major mobile AR browsers

Exciting news from Marc René Gardeya, the founder and CEO of Hoppala. It is another step to make it really easy to create "augmented reality contents with just a few mouseclicks".

"Hoppala Augmentation, the world’s largest content platform for mobile augmented reality applications, expands beyond Layar exclusivity and adds support for Junaio and Wikitude mobile AR browsers.

Hoppala Augmentation provides an easy-to-use graphical web interface to create augmented reality contents with just a few mouseclicks. It provides a login and a full screen map interface, and images and 3D models can be easily uploaded to a personalized inventory. ..."

See more info here: http://www.hoppala-agency.com/article/augmented-reality-content-platform/

 

  

[German post] Augmented Reality kommt langsam – aber gewaltig

Thinking about the emergence of "Augmented Worlds" in this decade I have written a kind of introduction and outlook concerning Augmented Reality evolution on the innovativ-in Business Club website. 

Augmented Reality kommt langsam – aber gewaltig

Nach dem Hype um erweiterte Wirklichkeit im letzten Jahr ist ein nüchterner Blick auf die Potenziale der Technologie angebracht. Zwischen kurzlebigen Gimmicks und faszinierenden Zukunftsvisionen beginnen sich bereits heute die Potenziale abzuzeichnen.

More: http://www.innovativ-in.de/augmented-reality-wirklichkeit-objekt-willi-schroll-gaming-_id1559.html