I reckon it does give Augmented Reality a boost Stefan. There is something compelling about putting the information from the two dimensions of our usual PC interactions into the 3+ dimensional space in which we live. I find myself thinking about the information from search being elsewhere, whereas the usual old map clearly says something like "the road is here."
Project Glas tries to put search information in the same view so at least we don't think that information is elsewhere. So for example a quantification of traffic flow on that road is seen here, on the road that it is travelling. That not only augments reality - it changes it. Kind of like advent of the Cartesian grid changed the shape of European towns. Not sure that this will help. Would like to hear your talk! Cheers, Will -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefan Keller Sent: 9-Apr-12 06:20 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Geowanking] Does G* "Project Glas" give Augmented Reality a boost? Hi Just another background thought while preparing a talk about the "State of GIS": Does Google "Project Glas" demo [1] give Augmented Reality (AR) a boost? Or is this just... 1. clever marketing to show how innovative Google is, or 2. "Augmented Reality the Google way" to leverage their existing services (or both). It's a nice concept video - like Microsoft produces sometimes - but it's far from being officially released. To me, AR does'nt suffer from new concepts but from better sensors like more better positional accurracy and reliable orientation/direction. Yours, S. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/google-project-glas/ _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
