We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thanks Seth for reminding us how much we are forgetting in these digital days.
A few days back, I shared with you a new AR assisted experience LEGO put out for kids and grownups to play along this holidays season, today I want you to explore a more of a group-oriented, public interactive experience.
Recently, National Geographic peered up with London studio Appshaker to create a new way for people to interact and discover content from the network's collection of amazing footage.
In order to do so, appshaker came out with a public AR experience that let thousands of people to interact with everything from a T-Rex to Dolphins swiming around you to even a playfull cheetah.
Take a look yourself in the video above. Look at how, both the people that step up to the markers and the people around the mall experience the display. It is in showcases like this that not only brands get something to show for but the society gets the chance to start seeing what the future is going to look like. It prepare themselves for what's around the corner and gives creatives new grounds to explore.
Immagine what would happen if you add a kinect camera into the mix, if you have smart enough movements into the characters that could let people interact with the animals like if they were there, imagine what if you could dress the people with new clothes and take them into a new journey.
Academics: get the ball going, take your research outside, it's time to take all of those experiences out of the lab and into the world!!
we live in a world that has never been as connected as now... the internet of things keep growing... our world becomes dummer and starter and thru a few key players and some happy API's our happenings are, simply put, collective.
this project I found today explore the idea of augmenting our surroundings with even more data... analog, digital and open spaces come together in a way that even if you don't own a piece of silicon... you still get experienced.
interesting concepts and look forward for more from this creative british agency... who knows maybe we do are living in the future.
Wow... go, hit play... it's just energetic, happy, sad, self related... it's just a life!
it's amazing how little moments, that in other era could have gone missed, are now been lived and relived by hundreds, thousands and millions of people around the world.
from tweets to pics, to videos, to rants, to poems, to stupidity and creativity... our humanity, our history will never be the same... as long as there is light!
what a great video... it just reminded me how great and banal our life is.
log off... and keep living your memories!
Earlier today I shared a video on Augmenting Books with live graphics and visualizations and showed you how AR could play a role in bringing life to the good old paper book.
Now I want to take you a little bit further... I want to take you to look at social enhanced literature.
The video above is the materialization of a team at IDEO and how they see the future of books and literature evolving past the digitalization of paper.
With the commoditization of smart-phones and tablet-like devices, the rich of its graphics capabilities and the globalization of the social network, both in our personal and corporate lifes, the next frontier opens up to match all of them together and bring a whole new level of abstraction and connectivity to our daily tasks. I call this trend social augmented experiences.
Long will be gone the old static, lonely and disconnected way of doing work and very soon we will be taking place in a new era of discovery and experiencing the world.
Video is short but the impact of their vision is huge, and best of all: it's possible today!
You can also listen below to an interview from WNYC who talks to Duane Bray and Robert Lenne, part of the team behind this project.
I hope you, like me, will see this just as a natural evolution of the reality we live today... because more and more we are touching the future.
My social life has moved on in a lot of ways since my early days in college and as so it has done the ways I communicate with the people around me.
Back in college I started using MSN Messenger heavily - and to be honest it's been months since I signed-on into it. Today there are more ways to communicate and share than there probably is time to keep them all in good shape and even more, there is not that much of time on checkin them out all - and I can tell of meself as an early adopter.
I've been looking for something or someone who can help me out with that - the keep me up to date with my social circle, that is - Friendfeed showed to be on the right track but as with everything it needs a strong user-base for it to make it worth.
Content is king, but second to content is people, your social circle, the people you care.
Today Microsoft started previewing their new Messenger client and it looks like it's stepping on the right direction. More and more the social presence on the web grows and my set of nets by not be my friends set of choice and having aggregation happening in a natural way I guess is the best that can happen to the social reality we are living in.
I haven't use this latest bits and for what I can tell from the video I hope they will add more third-party integration into the mix before going live as for what I'm looking for is a smart aggregation tool for my network not a new set of everything.
Have you give it a try already?
