The Coming Age of Calm Technology Weiser and Seely Brown's paper building on the PARC 'ubicomp' research programme outlining a 'coming age of calm technology'. The article reprdoces Weiser's ideas about historical 'waves' of progress in computing. (tags: research ubicomp anticipation envisioning forecasting weiser computing) A [...]

ARToolKit Professional On the up – "ARToolKit is the world’s most popular library for augmented reality application development. With a ten-year development pedigree, an active community edition with thousands of users, and ongoing development incorporating the latest results of augmented reality research…" (tags: augmentedreality software iphone API game

Medical Augmented Reality | Beyond The Beyond Medical AR vision video depicting the ability to see 'into' a body using AR overlays. Not unlike MS 'future vision of personal health'. (tags: anticipation video vision forecasting augmentedreality biopolitics health) Thingiverse – Digital Designs for Physical Objects "Thingiverse [...]

Augmented Reality: A Human Interface for Ambient Intelligence RWW write-up on AR, giving a commentary explaining the whys and wherefores. The author runs the Bay Area Augmented Reality Meetup Group, so its a bit evangelical. Some interesting links to example services. Also commentary on 'ambient intelligence': "Ambient intelligence is a human interface metaphor. It [...]

IBM and The Internet of Things "IBM is involved in some very interesting projects at the intersection of two big trends we've been tracking in 2009: The Real-time Web and Internet of Things. They have a website devoted to this topic, called A Smarter Planet. As the name implies, it focuses on environmental matters [...]

IPhone Augmented Reality Apps Expected in September "The dazzling new trend of "augmented reality" mobile applications, software that puts layers of information on top of a mobile device's camera viewer, is something that's left iPhone owners feeling out of luck. Now one company developing such an app says Apple has said the technology required [...]