Damon H wrote:
Perhaps a SFBay area ARDevelopers Camp is in order?
HI Damon,
a SFBay area AR geo dev camp sounds like a great idea.I'd be happy to
host a saturday hackathon at IFTF.org, our non-profit research lab in
downtown Palo Alto, midway between the City and SJ valley We have one
big meeting area, for about 50 and 6-7 small breakout areas, that we've
used in the past for sciencecamps , bio-barcamps and wherecamp sessions.
There's plenty of topics for breakouts:
AR user experience design
AR geobrowsers
AR dream apps
AR geo games
AR utility apps
geopositioning rendered AR objects
android and iphone dev environments
AR/gis/cad/vworlds data and applications interoperability
ARtoolkit, QRcodes and other image triggered AR
etc.
Who else would be interested? We can ping some other lists, and the #AR
hashtag channel on twitter.
Cheers-
Mike
Mike Liebhold
Senior Researcher
Institute for the Future
124 University Ave,
Palo Alto, Ca.
IFTF.org
3. What is the prospective FOSS stack for 3dAR geoservices?
All kinds of standards and FOSS will continue to develop as these
technologies emerge and mix. CityGML, X3D, and open source ARKits like
this one
<http://thetechnologist.tv/blog/iphone-arkit-released-iphonedevcamp>
for mobile devices will definitely lead the charge. The iPhone ARkit
guys (younger group) knocked this out this past weekend while I was at
the IDC3. <http://www.iphonedevcamp.org/> Imagine what a team of
seasoned pros from this group could knock out. Again, perhaps an
ARDevelopers Camp?
Using the X3D open standard, the groups I work with have created very
interactive AR content and are looking to bring more geo3D to AR. Pop
up AR windows and tags are nice, but those of us (Gen X/Y) want the
geoweb of information, 3D building overlays, avatars walking next to
us down the street, and other Ghost In the Shell type AR for those
familiar. If those in the geo community don't crank the gas on AR,
Google will. Then, like now, will be those interested stuck in KML/KMZ
land when better more robust tech is available.
I thank the Europeans (Layar, Wikitude, Enkin, Metaio, Total
Immersion, Fraunhofer, etc.) for really pushing AR into the mobile and
web mainstream.
If our geosphere is not ready, then I can't think of a better place or
group of people, the GeoWankers, to take it there.
IMHO
Damon H
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Mike Liebhold <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This is a humble request for geowanker mappers and geocoding web
artists alike to join me to quiet our 2d cartographic minds for a
minute to engage in a little thought experiment about handheld
views of 3d geodata:
Context: The realtime tweetsphere http://bit.ly/rZncR and
youtubesphere http://bit.ly/UwQ3u are alive with news of
handheld AR, [agumented reality] capabilities & apps, and
services. Besides layar and wikitude on android, there are already
a number cool hacks for jailbroken iPhones, and veiled
confirmations from apple that the next rev. of the iphone os dev
release for the 3gs will support AR app integration of gps,
compass, and graphic overlay of video cam views. The viewfinder
is becoming a new AR 3d web browser.
AR is here, if not today, tomorrow, but i suspect our geosphere is
not ready.
questions for fellow geowankers:
1. What kind of geodata and locative media will be most useful or
fun to see geopositioned in 3d in our handheld viewfinders.
e.g. floating labels of things, animated directions, emergency
alerts, news and ads to filter, cartoon games, visible clouds of
wifi signal strength, visible sensor net readings of air quality..
visible entry into another colored polygon
of cartographic meaning, etc.
2. How will we search, view, create, and serve open 3d AR geodata?
3. What is the prospective FOSS stack for 3dAR geoservices?
e.g. starting at the top with a 3D firefox or open layers
equivelant client down to a cloudwide RESTful deep geocoded web of
linked 3D geodata?
Just curious, what people are thinking these days . . .
Mike
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