Re: On-screen Overlay to the world (through an iphone!)

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH) Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

"Brian Kuriyama" <> writes:

> http://gizmodo.com/5048302/sekai-camera-turns-on-worlds-balloon-help
>
> While I don't know if this group has officially died or not,

Looks it.

> I'm still
> turned on to the idea of a wearable computer

Me too.  :-)

> I wonder if the developers will make this
> open source or if they'll make a windows version?

Not in a million years.

However Steve Mann did something like it years ago.  It's discussed in
both his book (title began like "Cyborg: ..." I can't remember the rest
of it.) and on the documentary that the CBC made of him called
"Cyberman".

He called the concept "Mediated Reality" and he used it primarily to
remove unwanted advertising.  I expect the above technology will be
used primarily to ADD unwanted advertising.

There's no doubt however that the power of a system used by only one
man would be overwhelmed by the power of a system used by everyone.

I don't think the problem itself is all that hard to implement the
second time around, as he published the software and theory that does
the tricky bit.  (Don't quote me I bet I've missed something. :-)

- paul

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