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Augmented Reality – Transitioning out of the old-fashioned “Legacy Internet”: Interview with Bruce Sterling

Planetary from Bloom Studio, Inc. on Vimeo. It is just over a week until Augmented Reality Event, and I know there are a lot of people, including me (full disclosure I am co-chair and co-founder) who are totally psyched to see what unfolds there this year.   Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Blaise Aguera Y Arcas,  Jaron […]

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Augmented Reality Event, 2011: Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Will Wright, and Jaron Lanier to Judge the “Auggies”

The prophets of Augmented Reality, Bruce Sterling (best know for his science fiction works, his non-fiction includes “The Hacker Crackdown,” “Tomorrow Now,” and “Shaping Things”), and  Vernor Vinge (author of “Rainbows End” and “The Coming Technological Singularity”) are joining  Will Wright (Legendary game designer of SimCity, The Sims, and Spore), and Jaron Lanier (a computer […]

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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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