Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
Thanks James for the links! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43513 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-14 Thread Fritz Desir
and Martin! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43513 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-10 Thread James Haliburton
As promised, TAT's Augmented ID concept... http://tat.se/site/showroom/latest_design.html And yes, we are thinking about the privacy issues :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43513

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-09 Thread brian
If they could make augmented reality browser contact lenses utilizing nano technology integrated with social networking capabilities, then you could hit on someone at the bar without getting slapped. :) Seriously, it is all very exciting and Layer is the first working model but I think there

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-09 Thread Martin
There are a few other nice examples in this space that are worth checking out: Wikitude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EA8xlicmT8 (for Android) is an AR app that shows you Wikipedia entries close to you. IBM Seer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VZoDmqcZ34 (for Android) is a Wimbledon-specific AR

[IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-08 Thread Fritz Desir
Hey all - Saw a very brief demo of a *reality* browser on TV last week via Brink on the Science Channel (which btw also had an excellent demo by Bill Buxton the MS Office Labs 2019 vision--posted elsewhere on this forum). Basically it seems to be mobile browser (served as an app) which in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-08 Thread j. eric townsend
Fritz Desir wrote: [...] Video demo of Layar here: http://snurl.com/lncqj Setting aside ixd for a moment, it appears to run on Android, which means it isn't going to be limited to keitai.Something like that on a netbook would be pretty amazing for someone like a real estate agent,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-08 Thread Fritz Desir
True that would be pretty interesting. From what I can see though tying devices to help add meaning to the physical world is where (smart) mobile pretty much has to be headed--as in location aware apps now coming to market for the iPhone. Not to mention something as simple as Google Maps which

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?

2009-07-08 Thread James Haliburton
One element that is lacking from all work I've seen to date is the social aspect. Everything is highly functional and task based. As cool as it is to have a cool niche app (e.g. for real estate), AR's biggest impact could instead be about our daily lives - the facebook/twitter/iphone app lives -