Augmented Web running on Google Glass...and so much more!

Hi,

we've made a lot of progress over the last couple of months and I'm just 
about to jump on a plane to San Francisco where I'll be presenting our 
work at a number of events.

As the subject line mentions, we've been lucky enough to join the Google 
Glass Explorer Program (thanks to Dave Lorenzini) and within only a 
couple of week we were able to get the full Augmented Web Experience 
working smoothly on the Glass Platform - w00t! I'll be presenting this 
demo as part of the "Demo Session" and the "New Applications, Gaming and 
Beyond" session at WebRTC World in Santa Clara next week.  We'll also be 
releasing a series of live demos based on this work very soon.

On top of that there has been a lot other developments.

Google have also announced that they'll be using the full Chromium 
browser as the basis for the native WebViews on Android.  This means 
that native applications can now embed the full Augmented Web Experience 
without any extra coding.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/12/google-says-working-automatically-updating-androids-chromium-based-webview-just-like-chrome/

Also, Mozilla and Google report that WebRTC and WebGL are standard on 
their production browsers and these technologies now make Augmented Web 
Experiences available to over 1 Billion devices world wide.

There's also been quite a bit of movement on the general Stream 
Processing frameworks and how we can make this common across the whole 
Web Platform.  As part of this ongoing discussion we'll be running a 
Stream Processing Performance Optimisation session as part of the FOMS 
workshop with some of the leading browser developers next week.

http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2013

Just after that, the Chrome Dev Summit is also being held in San 
Francisco and there will be a strong focus on rich media and 
multi-device development which is exactly what the Augmented Web delivers.

http://developer.chrome.com/devsummit

And I've also been invited to present our vision for the Augmented Web 
at the Mozilla Internet Futures Workshop where a group of their senior 
management (including CTO Brendan Eich) will be looking out 5-10 years 
to see where these technologies will take us.

On top of that, we'll also be making an exciting announcement at the 
same time at both WebRTC World in Santa Clara and SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong 
Kong.  So stay tuned and I'll send the announcements to this list as well.

So as you can see...things are really starting to roll and it seems that 
everyone is waking up to what the Augmented Web is now ready to 
deliver.  In fact late November in San Francisco is starting to look 
like the "Festival of Web Futures!" 8)

I'll look forward to catching up with some of you in SF and I'll also 
share useful links and presentations from these events as they become 
available.

roBman

PS: The first official version of the OpenVX specification is also about 
to be announced by the Khronos Group, which is another massive step 
towards Computer Vision processing on the Augmented Web and soon 
hopefully a WebVX API too 8)  There will be a lot more news related to 
this coming out soon.

Received on Thursday, 14 November 2013 02:26:42 UTC