Everting the Interwebs
Current Music: Headless Chickens -- Juice 
As I tweeted excitedly a couple of weeks ago, Augmented Reality is about to make a big splash on our handheld devices. The confluence of video camera, gps and compass in the latest iPhone has made it the platform of the moment, with applications like acrossair-which displays information about New York subway travel-and the less geographically self-limiting (albeit unfortunately named) TwitARound-which displays nearby twitter users and their latest tweets in the virtual field of vision-attracting attention. This isn't mainstream yet, but it's a compelling indication of what's to come.
Holding a phone to one's face is going to become a common exercise, it seems. I can imagine something less bulky like a lanyard or a rectangular monocle (circular, once round LEDs are readily available; tethered or wireless) becoming a popular alternative. Some kind of screen-only video thingie which could be cabled up to a handheld would make a great prototype. Alternatively, anyone know how hard it would be to hack a second LCD screen-with, say, a 1.5m cable-onto a 3GS? :)
As I tweeted excitedly a couple of weeks ago, Augmented Reality is about to make a big splash on our handheld devices. The confluence of video camera, gps and compass in the latest iPhone has made it the platform of the moment, with applications like acrossair-which displays information about New York subway travel-and the less geographically self-limiting (albeit unfortunately named) TwitARound-which displays nearby twitter users and their latest tweets in the virtual field of vision-attracting attention. This isn't mainstream yet, but it's a compelling indication of what's to come.
Holding a phone to one's face is going to become a common exercise, it seems. I can imagine something less bulky like a lanyard or a rectangular monocle (circular, once round LEDs are readily available; tethered or wireless) becoming a popular alternative. Some kind of screen-only video thingie which could be cabled up to a handheld would make a great prototype. Alternatively, anyone know how hard it would be to hack a second LCD screen-with, say, a 1.5m cable-onto a 3GS? :)