Sam Martin has a nice blog post about your future in 2020. He was asked by Forbes magazine to envision 2020 and the result can be seen here: “Your Life in 2020“.
So a future word for you: “Wuffie”. A Wuffie is “conceptual social Metric based on what others think of you”. From the blog: “The term “whuffie,” by the way, is a word coined by author Cory Doctorow in his book Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom. It refers to the measurement of respect or karma a person gains or looses in their lives. In Doctorow’s future, humans have implants in their brains that visually project their whuffie, which has replaced money as currency.”
You can download his science fiction novel at the site for free. Meanwhile – take care of your social carma!
Geo-location services, tourist information, weather updates, social networking tools, music and of course matchmaker targeting. This cool technology will probably be the next step, on how we communicate/interact after the ongoing mobile internet phase. See this live at Stark Expo, May 7th, in New York… or is this a viral campaign for Iron Man 2?
Recently FWA wrote about this niceley done multi-touch solution from PhenomenBlue. You can see yourself in the Microsoft Surface table, play with other people in a virtual puppet show. And of course send your snapshot to your twitter/twitpic. Love it.
Read more: Project – Behind the scenes.
Well, what a website this is! To market the winter street clothes from Jay Jays this great dance campaign website was made. Choose your dancer and explore the dancers outfit!
Hats off to the interactive gurus at Visual Jazz (Australia). This website is very well done, both technically and with a clear business focus. Using the media the fullest, even extending it with the 3D glasses… And also integrated into to shops!
In Dubai Festival City you can find the worlds first commercial AdPod installation from Wonderworks (UK). The 3D image size is of 1.2m high to 2m. Excellent eye-catcher for events for sure… Looks like a Star Trek beamer to me
Toyota Auris Hybrid market their new car with the use of AR - in a very well done production by Saatchi & Saatchi and North Kingdom from Sweden. I have never before seen such a creative AR solution like this – and I am amazed. Had a meeting with one of the developers today who showed me a cool demo.
By using different markers you create your own “AR story” with the car, and of course you can record your own video with your webcam, upload it and share it online. Even if you are not familiar with the german language (site is relesed in german only so far)… you can look at the uploaded videos from users and be inspired by the concept…
Technology used is Studierstube which is faster than for ex FLARToolKit… “Studierstube is a software framework for the development of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality applications. This framework was invented to develop the worldwide first collaborative AR application. Studierstube is developed at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz).”
Sony delivered the first set of details about its upcoming motion controller since it was announced last year, and gave IGN an opportunity to use the device first-hand. Check out impressions here.
So a future word for you: “Wuffie”. A Wuffie is “conceptual social Metric based on what others think of you”. From the blog: “The term “whuffie,” by the way, is a word coined by author Cory Doctorow in his book Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom. It refers to the measurement of respect or karma a person gains or looses in their lives. In Doctorow’s future, humans have implants in their brains that visually project their whuffie, which has replaced money as currency.”
