Augmented Reality Update
November 22nd, 2009 | 
Author: A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about John Mayer is using augmented reality with his new album and how the technology will be incorporated into a new book about Michael Jackson which will be released just in time for Christmas.
Augmented Reality is becoming a hot topic. BusinessWeek magazine has an article in its November 23rd issue about the Dutch startup, Layar which makes free software that developers can use to associate digital info with specific locations. On the BusinessWeek website, technology editor Peter Elstrom interviews Stephen H. Wildstrom who wrote an article, “Augmented Reality:Not That Real Yet” for the magazine. You can read the article and listen to the interview here:
http://bit.ly/2kWiRx
Meanwhile, the December 2009 edition of Esquire magazine with Robert Downey, Jr. on the cover is titled the Augmented Reality issue. I think you’ll enjoy this video:
And you’ve got to watch this from Pranav Mistry at TEDIndia
So, how do you see augmented reality being incorporated into your life?
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Tags: BusinessWeek, Esquire, Pranav Mistry, Robert Downey Jr., SixthSense
I think Robert Downey loves to augment reality. He’s a Heroin addict! Really.
Could Todd Rundgren’s 1990’s TR-i be considered Augemented Reality? Copied from wikipedia, but accurate: Rundgren recording under the pseudonym TR-i (“Todd Rundgren interactive”) for two albums. The first of these, 1993’s No World Order, consisted of hundreds of seconds-long snippets of music that could be combined in various ways to suit the listener. Initially targeted for the Philips CD-i platform, No World Order featured interactive controls for tempo, mood, and other parameters, along with pre-programmed mixes by Rundgren himself, Bob Clearmountain, Don Was, and Jerry Harrison. The disc was also released for PC and Macintosh and in two versions on standard audio CD, the continuous mix disc No World Order and, later, the more song-oriented No World Order Lite. The music itself was quite a departure from Rundgren’s previous work, with a dance/techno feel and much rapping by Rundgren. The follow-up, 1995’s The Individualist, featured interactive video content that could be viewed or in one case, played; it was a simple video game) along with the music, which was more rock-oriented than No World Order.