Beyond Augmented Reality: Digital-Physical Singularity

I wrote a couple of posts back that next generation graphical user interfaces were already here. Integration with technology is becoming socially expected. There are implications for the social contract: a) Those that don't integrate will become marginalised, forming a subset of society that live a parallel, less/ non-technologically integrated life; and b) As digital-physical integration reaches singularity, the implications for data privacy and government control & access become scary. Indeed the a posteriority of this is self evident. Like all evolution, the process is perpetually iterative and the beau ideal will remain just out of reach.

Pranav Mistry of MIT demonstrated his work on this integration a few months ago at TED. His goal: to seamlessly mesh the digital and physical. His work goes beyond a simple gesture-screen based interface a la Minority Report:



Sviokla also touches on the implications of this integration at his blog here.

Late Friday Tune

Incubus - Pardon Me

Risky Business. . .

100% ripped from Jessica Hagy's Indexed:

Minority Report: Redux

Not quite Mr Cruise, but not far from it.

Next generation graphical user interfaces are already here. This one's at least a year old. . . . The choice is becoming remarkably binary: choose to integrate with technology and the perpetual knowledge upgrade. Or choose increasing obsolescence and isolation. For those that have chosen the later and want to catch up,  escape velocity is geometrically inching ever further from their grasp. The only thing that will alter this is a step change in the intuitiveness of future user interfaces.

I spotted this over at Nick Gogerty's. If you head to vimeo site via the HD button, you can watch in HD:


g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

eMapping: Augmented Reality + Beyond. . .

This was filmed this month at TED 2010. It's a presentation on latest generation emapping given by a guy called Blaise who works for Microsoft. This really does leave gmaps in the dust. . . at least for now. Pretty cool stuff: