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The equation above says it all, in a few short years,\u00a0augmented reality is going to explode.\u00a0\u00a0Augmented reality refers to supplementing the real world with contextual computer generated information.\u00a0 While the concept of augmented reality is not new,\u00a0the\u00a0ability to “take it with you”\u00a0is just becoming economical.\u00a0 The devices we carry every day (iphones, smartphones) will get smarter and more powerful, the bandwidth connecting us to the net will continue to increase, and the data being crunched for us in the cloud will continue to become more relevant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Already, the GPS information in iphones is changing the way people interact with the world around them.\u00a0 Turn-by-turn directions are combining your location information with map data to get you where you wish to go.\u00a0 Smart applications provide details about real estate by using GPS to understand which property sits in front of you.\u00a0 Social networks can be updated with the click of a button to let your friends know where you are.\u00a0 Even so, in a few years we will shrug when we think about how primitive this technology was.<\/p>\n
As I write this, applications are being authored that combine the camera, orientation, and GPS information from the phone with data in the cloud to provide rich information about every day things.\u00a0 Just by pointing the camera on your phone to a sculpture in the park, you will get detailed information delivered to your screen about the art and the artist.\u00a0 Pointing at a restaurant might reveal the day’s dinner and happy hour specials, the wait time for a table, and then provide you a way to place your order as you make your approach.\u00a0 New in town and not sure where to get a bite?\u00a0 Point your device down the street and GPS combined with image recognition will\u00a0present you\u00a0with rich data about the establishments that lie ahead of you.\u00a0 In order to make sense of the enormous amount of data, the information will be easily filterable (Food, Italian, Romantic – for example) .\u00a0 Many different devices will provide this functionality and it will become clear that the\u00a0hardware at your hip is much more than a phone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This brings me to the “people” part of this future.\u00a0 The dawn of augmented reality is neatly aligned with the maturing of social media.\u00a0 The data crunching cloud is not only taking in everything it can about where you are and what you’re looking at, it’s correlating it with everything it knows about you through your social networks, online profiles, search histories, and so on.<\/p>\n Content you are interested in will reach out to you in the form of real time alerts to let you know you are in the vicinity of something you’d be interested in (end-user customizable of course).\u00a0 When you pass a comic book store that has the rare issue of Spider Man you’ve been looking for on ebay – an alert notifies you.\u00a0 As you walk through downtown Seattle, you’re notified of an audio walking tour that can be streamed in real time to your ear as you pass monuments and places of interest.\u00a0 When you walk into a party or concert, your data is correlated with others in your social networks to show you where your friends are in a crowded room or auditorium.\u00a0 It will be as easy to find someone in a crowd and send a direct message to their ear as it is to send a direct message on Twitter today.\u00a0<\/p>\n The device you carry with you will become your extended sense of site and sound (and maybe more) and the\u00a0data rich, processor heavy\u00a0cloud will become the distributed machine that is organizing information, processing it and serving it up.\u00a0 You may think this sounds overwhelming\u00a0and perhaps even annoying.\u00a0 In fact, you’re probably right.\u00a0 But rest assured\u2026\u00a0though it may be too much information for you\u00a0to stomach, your\u00a0kids are going to love it.<\/p>\n Want to learn more?\u00a0 Check out the Layar<\/a> platform for one approach or Tonchidot<\/a> for another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The equation above says it all, in a few short years,\u00a0augmented reality is going to explode.\u00a0\u00a0Augmented reality refers to supplementing the real world with contextual computer generated information.\u00a0 While the concept of augmented reality is not new,\u00a0the\u00a0ability to “take it with you”\u00a0is just becoming economical.\u00a0 The devices we carry every day (iphones, smartphones) will get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"RID\"](\"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/RID.jpg\" "\\"RID\\"")
Eventually, companion devices such as smart-glasses (Retinal Imaging Display<\/a>), will enter the marketplace.\u00a0 These glasses will connect to your device via technologies like Bluetooth to allow for more convenient access to your information.\u00a0 Think of it as the way Terminator viewed the world, only without the all the red tint and orders to kill people.\u00a0 Information at your fingertips will become information at your pupils.\u00a0 Voice recognition will allow you to easily navigate through the\u00a0data that is being drawn onto the lenses of your eyes. Likewise, content will be very interactive, allowing you to receive\u00a0and send information to the people and places that stand before you.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"AR](\"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/AR_Phone1.jpg\" "\\"AR_Phone1\\"")
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