iPad to Get Camera?
Wow. An iPad with a camera would make a sweet augmented reality device. Hold that bad boy up and pan it around so you can really see the AR display on a big screen. Apparently Jobs slipped today and may have inadvertently preannounced this feature. Lately, I’ve been looking at various jobs and asking myself, [...]
Augmented Reality. Will it ever become a part of the marketing technology mix?
There was a lot of buzz about new visualization techniques back in 2009. About a year ago, Mashable posted on an Apple patent called Apple ID: [it] recognizes an object based on visuals (through the iPhone’s camera), a RFID reader or through GPS, and then fetches the data from related databases. I like to imagine [...]
RWW Mobile Summit
I went to the RWW Mobile Summit last Friday where in the true unconference style the attendees defined the agenda and developed the conference content at the day transpired. While moderate in size, it was evident in the session proposals that the people attending were mobile insiders with intimate knowledge of the challenges and opportunities [...]
Eye Tracking
I read the linked post below and the notion of eye tracking as a result of augmented reality products will result in a new advertising currency. The idea of eye tracking in advertising is not new, indeed eye tracking as a field of study is not new having first been credited to the work of [...]
20 RedMonk Predictions for 2010
I am sure many of you are already facing prediction fatigue, but I have to take my hat off to Jonny Bentwood, the very model of a modern AR/influencer man, for a. rounding up a bunch of analyst firm predictions for next year. b. helpfully editing three sets of redmonk predictions from Coté, Stephen, and [...]
New version of Eye on Earth site – more data, less visible!
Photo credit Tom Raftery
We last wrote about the Eye on Earth site in July 2008. If you can’t remember that far back, a quick recap – Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to “make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europe”.
EyeOnEarth, the [...]
