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It's scary how much this sounds like the world envisioned by Daniel Suarez in Daemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series) Google has diverless cars, Glasses that overlay information on top of reality, and now is making a sort of game out of it.
Also reminded me of Vinge's Rainbow's Edge .
It seems to me that, with the ubiquity of smartphones and how powerful they're becoming, it's only a matter of time before there's a constantly-evolving digital facsimile of the real world. We've started to see how, for example, many geo-tagged photos can be reconstructed into a pointcloud (see Microsoft's Photosynth amongst others), and how everyone is now carrying a location-aware camera-computer in their pockets..…
Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)
The toolkit will be interesting to see once it's developed.
Lots of interesting stuff going on in this space. Shadow cities is another one that's doing pretty well. The big question to me is, where's the Zynga of this world? Can you make casual location aware ARGs?
http://www.qualcomm.com/solutions/augmented-reality
https://ar.qualcomm.at/
[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew
[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew
Thanks!
It seems to me that, with the ubiquity of smartphones and how powerful they're becoming, it's only a matter of time before there's a constantly-evolving digital facsimile of the real world. We've started to see how, for example, many geo-tagged photos can be reconstructed into a pointcloud (see Microsoft's Photosynth amongst others), and how everyone is now carrying a location-aware camera-computer in their pockets..…
Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)
There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality.
The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functionality with virtual pets and software as "magic". The kids lead a life based upon this augmented reality laid over the real reality. If you like anime this show is worth tracking down a torrent for.
It's also worth checking out the Halting State series from Charles Stross if you're up for some reading.