Augmented Reality, Soon in your cellular...


	Augmented Reality, Soon in your cellular...

Silkweaver

8-13-2008 5:30 PM

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augmented reality, computing, virtual worlds, metaverse

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Interesting.

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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.openthefuture.com/2008/08/making_the_visible_invisible.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.openthefuture.com/img/89033B06-66FC-470E-A86C-A24F6635512B" alt="Handheld Augmented Reality" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.openthefuture.com/2008/08/making_the_visible_invisible.html">The <A href="http://www.openthefuture.com/2007/06/metaverse_roadmap_report_1.html" linkindex="174" set="yes">Metaverse Roadmap Overview</A>, an exploration of imminent 3D technologies, posited a number of different scenarios of what a future "metaverse" could look like.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.openthefuture.com/2008/08/making_the_visible_invisible.html">The four scenarios -- augmented reality, life-logging, virtual worlds, and mirror worlds -- each offered a different manifestation of an immersive 3D world.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.openthefuture.com/2008/08/making_the_visible_invisible.html">Of the four, I suspect that augmented reality is most likely to be widespread soon;</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; 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