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Visual Search, Augmented Reality, and Physical Hyperlinks for Playfulness, Not just Purchases: Talking with Paige Saez about ImageWiki

The video above, The Imawik commercial, is a collaboration between In The Can Productions and Paige Saez for Makerlab “The Imawik (ImageWiki) is a visual search tool for mobile devices. It allows for the ability to turn images into physical hyperlinks, conflating visual culture with a community-editable universal namespace for images.” Paige Saez is an […]

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AR Wave: Layers and Channels of Social Augmented Experiences

It is now nearly two weeks since the Google Wave preview launch and I am happy to say we have some AR Wave news. The diagram above shows Thomas Wrobel’s basic concept for a distributed, multi-user, open augmented reality framework based on the Google Wave Federation Protocol and servers (click on the image to see […]

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Games, Goggles, and Going Hollywood…How AR is Changing the Entertainment Landscape: Talking with Brian Selzer, Ogmento

Picture on the left Mirrorshades, picture on the right a Metroid Hud. “Augmented Reality is like a Philip K Dick novel torn off its paperback rack and blasted out of iPhones,” Bruce Sterling in Beyond the Beyond “a techno visionary dream come true – those are rare, really rare, you have to be patient,  it’s […]

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