Head's up displays have been around for some time. The reason why the technology is hardly ever addressed is, as one designer of such a display put it, "you look like a dork wearing one."
Then again, many people walk around with those bluetooth headsets nowadays even though they look like Lobot. The minaturization of the technology will be critical to see useful and widespread adoption. They're more akin to putting an apple ][ in your backpack for mobile computing. I for one would love to be able to track down Sarah Connor. J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Larcombe Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geowanking] A9 street-view photo data? Mike Liebhold wrote: > Also, I'm particularly interested in 'first person', heads-up, > augmented > video views of geodata, Amen to that. One of the key things that is hardly ever addressed in the technical geospatial world is the appropriateness of the simple cartesian representation of space. However, phenomenologists from Heidegger onward argue that this isn't how we actually experience our world. 'first person' views (either synthesised or from video) can help us, along with things like viewsheds etc, to understand spatiality at the level of man. Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
