Entries tagged with: iPhone

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New Fast Company Column: iPhone Augmented Reality

Because it's actually a blogging requirement to write something about new Apple hardware when it's announced. One of the more important features of the new iPhone may be the least-widely heralded by the tech punditry: it has a compass. This...

Posted on June 11, 2009 12:30 PM

...And Lest You Think I Was Just Kidding...

Here's a very early version of an augmented reality system for the iPhone from ARToolworks. (Soundtrack Warning: The 1990s wants its rave music back.)...

Posted on August 13, 2008 1:18 PM

Making the Visible Invisible

The Metaverse Roadmap Overview, an exploration of imminent 3D technologies, posited a number of different scenarios of what a future "metaverse" could look like. The four scenarios -- augmented reality, life-logging, virtual worlds, and mirror worlds -- each offered a...

Posted on August 12, 2008 3:21 PM

Touchy, Touchy

Although I tend to focus on social impacts in my discussions of the participatory panopticon, and the related Metaverse concepts of augmented reality and lifelogging, I'm not immune to the siren song of gadgets. If I'm going to argue that...

Posted on December 22, 2007 12:17 AM

iForgetaboutit

I've been a Mac user for years, and (generally) happily so. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I do appreciate the combination of good hardware and software design found in Macs. When the iPhone came out, some people I knew...

Posted on September 28, 2007 12:35 PM

Beauty and the Beast

Damn, that iPhone is pretty. I am primarily a Mac user, so I follow the annual announcements at Macworld fairly closely. This year, most folks expected Steve Jobs to unveil a phone, so when he announced it, few people were...

Posted on January 11, 2007 6:00 PM

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