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This is why I think we need to work on a common format for comic presentation, which various apps could read.

I wish I had time to finish my own infinite canvas experiment, but that was effectively just a reader for an xml list of images and their positions. (more or less). It gave the creator of the xml a lot of flexibility. I even figured (with minor markup additions) they could choose to make pages if they wished. (it would really be just jumping to locations on the canvas internally).

I think the key with anything is to have open, pubic, standards.

Its the same with my work with augmented reality.

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1 week, 5 days ago onWordpress in scottmccloud.com

Brightness and size effect battery a lot more then res do. OLED screens are more battery friendly.

3 weeks, 3 days ago onWordpress in www.mobilecrunch.com

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1 month, 2 weeks ago onWordpress in gamesalfresco.com

Incidentaly, theres some corruption in the post I made above. I foolishly used greater then/less then signs to represent a too way link between Data and Image. Which, of course gets interpreted as markup.

So;

URLIP should read “URL to IP”

and ImageData should read “Image to Data”

etc.

Sorry about that

1 month, 4 weeks ago onWordpress in www.ugotrade.com

Wonderful interview, lots of very interesting stuff said and I’m sorry I don’t have time to reply to all of it specifically. Pretty much all of it along my own beliefs and lines of thinking, but also a heck of a lot of good points to let my brain digest.

I especially found the Pizza example brilliant.

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I think overall I’m most scared of any emerging of a single “imageDNS” source.

There shouldn’t be any “ownership” of linking. Not even a party-natural registry.

URLIP is a one to one relationship, which is something we want to avoid for ImageData links.

There should be multiple image matching sources of which the user/client is free to choose which they want.

ImageWiki and Google Goggle’s are both great things, but I hope they will become just one of many varying data source’s that

clients can look up from. (using some sort of standard protocol).

Of course, the idea of a federated Wave based AR also ties into this, as Imagedata links can be created by and for

relatively small specialist groups, as well as private and family use. However, Wave-based image links would have to be

examined client-side for now, making them unsuitable for large-scale lookups. Still, smaller categorized image-based links

still have their place.

This all goes back to context being important; while the idea of “pointing at everything” to get information is

attractive, we have to think carefully about how much of everything is in your field of view at any one time…chance’s are you

only want to match a specific thing, and not be overloaded by information about the wallpaper, the floor, the type of

lightbulb or whatever else catches the global image-searchs eye.

Not to mention image-searching will be much more accurate and achievable if the system is only trying to match against a

small subset of “everything”.

I absolutely agree that clients should be able to automatically filter a lot of data by context, and work out the “most probable” things we want in any given situation. User’s should also be able to set preferences and override, but in day to day activity the

user shouldn’t need to prompt the client too much. I don’t think I believe in a truly zero-click interface, as free-will and the unpredictable nature of humans makes that impossible. But I do think we can minimise it to near-zero.

Even this is such a incredibly hard task to achieve, and thats another reason (imho) why we need an open federation for AR. There really needs to be good competition of AR Clients even when they are all looking at the same dataset. There is absolutely huge scope for research and experimentation into how best to choose and display the AR data that the user see’s, but it needs to be open for this field to flourish.

“One is that the trust in social networks has not been built yet, so we can’t do peer based recommendations very well. We can’t filter noise by peers. Twitter kind of is moving there, but I don’t just want to listen to my Twitter friends. I want to listen to my friends of friends. If I am getting truth from somebody, I want to get that truth from people my

friends say that they trust.”

This is fairly close to how Vark works (http://vark.com/ask).

Ask a question and it will get “the truth” sourced from your friends and friends of friends.

(if you let it, it will also search strangers views, based on their user-picked categorize of knowledge, but it always bias’s towards those close to you).

It strikes me theres still a massive gap for opinion based searchs too. A lot of what we need isnt just definitive answer’s, but rather “whats the best for me”.

Whats the best restaurant near here?

Whats the best bookshop?

Whats the best videogame to buy now?

What movie should I see?

A movie recommendation from a movie critic or from a friend wont make much difference unless you know how close their opinions correlate to your own. I think theres a lot of scope for research here, and Ive been making a website based on this concept, but its a little offtopic.

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1 month, 4 weeks ago onWordpress in www.ugotrade.com

Now imagine it when you have overlaid instructions to build nearly anything from anything.

Lego’s just the tip of the iceberg.

2 months ago onWordpress in gamesalfresco.com

As do we all

2 months, 2 weeks ago onWordpress in thomaskcarpenter.com

ahah, here it is;

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/3D_models

2 months, 3 weeks ago onWordpress in gamesalfresco.com

I dont see why not.

This demonstration I saw had no fancy rig, it was practically just a guy moving a webcam around an object by hand. (was a paper model of a church I think..darn I really wish I could find the link).

If retailers cant be bothered/afford to do something like that its doughtfull they have the investment or the motivation to do any practical AR catalogue anyway.

2 months, 3 weeks ago onWordpress in gamesalfresco.com

Yes a great summery indeed.

Really puts it all into perspective and makes me wonder what next year will bring.

2 months, 3 weeks ago onWordpress in thomaskcarpenter.com