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Visual Search, Augmented Reality and a Social Commons for the Physical World Platform: Interview with Anselm Hook

Visual search is heating up, and with it a key stage of turning the physical world into a platform is underway as images become hyperlinks to the world in applications like Google Goggles, Point and Find, and SnapTell – see this post by Katie Boehret.  And while there may be no truly game changing augmented […]

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Tonchidot: Taking Augmented Reality Beyond Lab Science with Fearless Creativity and Business Savvy

Sekai Camera has a slick new demo video out that is already causing a stir in the Japanese press (see Beyond the Beyond).  This video shows a ton of stuff going on! (A friend who lives in Tokyo pointed out to me that, in Japan, people are used to working with “busier” mobile UIs.) Takahito […]

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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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