Posted in augmentation on Jul 3rd, 2008
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision, originally uploaded by jeffmcneill.
This is right out of Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End, set in San Diego, 2025. This is the near future, within our own lifetime horizon.
Posted in augmentation, future, hardware, innovation on Jun 26th, 2007
There is a mesh of interesting things going on here. The idea is we will interact with objects and in places in new ways to produce new experiences.
* [Microsoft Surface](http://www.microsoft.com/surface/)
* [Natural Interaction](http://naturalinteraction.org/)
* [Human Joysticks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6izXII54Qc)
* [Valli (2007) Natural Interaction Whitepaper](http://naturalinteraction.org/images/whitepaper.pdf)
* Kuniavsky (2007) The Coming Age of Magic
Posted in augmentation on Jun 26th, 2007
Posted in Advertising, augmentation on Jun 5th, 2007
via [Natural Interaction](http://naturalinteraction.org/)
Posted in augmentation, brand, inworld, secondlife, simulation, visualization on Feb 8th, 2007
My presentation to fellow Communication and Information Sciences doctoral students today is on __Play: Research in Multi-User Virtual Environments__. The following references are available for further investigation:
* [Aedhmar Hynes, CEO, Text100](http://mondaymorning.typepad.com/monday_morning/2006/11/first_lessons_f.html) (First lessons in Second Life)
* [Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM](http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/index.html) (3d Internet)
* [Sarah "Intellagirl" Robins, Doctoral Student, Ball State University](http://www.citeulike.org/user/intellagirl) [...]
Posted in augmentation, earth, future, secondlife, visualization on Feb 3rd, 2007
The University of Michigan 3D research group created a low-cost 3D projection display.
Note, the cost on this is coming down to around $5k. Why is this interesting? Well, we could actually get a 3d display of virtual environments such as Second Life and Google Earth.
Turns out the open-sourcing of the SL client enabled researchers [...]
Posted in augmentation, simulation on Oct 13th, 2006
Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide, over at their [Neurolearning Blog](http://eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/sketching-at-mit-video.html
) posted a great video of an MIT whiteboard that does simulation. Virtual environmented embedded in a whiteboard. Virtual worlds everywhere!
Posted in augmentation, secondlife on Oct 11th, 2006
These are a few examples of mirroring, SL –> RL and RL –> SL. At first it is a mimicry and mirroring, but when we hook up the engines at either side, we will have greater experiences of seamless interpenetration.
* [Avatar enters RL](http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/09/15/fabjectory-virtual-objects-built-in-real-life/)
* [Walking](http://moriash.blogspot.com/2006/08/more-scenic-walk.html) and [bicycling](http://moriash.blogspot.com/2006/09/virtual-bicycle.html) in SL
* [Amazon integration in SL](http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2006/06/amazon-engineers-working-on-second.html)
* [Web on a [...]
Handy guide to modern science: If it’s green or it wiggles, it’s Biology. If it stinks, it’s chemistry. If it’s pretentious, it’s Computer Science (and most probably Artificial Intelligence). If it doesn’t work, it’s Physics.
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