Re: Social AR

On 22/07/2010 11:34, Christine Perey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts on if or how to make Social AR part of the
> scope of future work of an AR WG?
> 
> It is certainly a popular trend.
> 
> Although I have not found any slideware or anyone who was there (that
> can validate this claim) one write up about the MobileBeat2010 event
> last week [1] indicates that Augmented Reality was mentioned in Erick
> Tseng's talk as an upcoming feature for Facebook mobile.
> 
> If you have any sources which confirm that Social AR is coming to
> Facebook mobile, please share with me or post to this list.

Hi,

I personally don't know about Facebook but I know it's popular among
developers to make Layar layers for social services such as Twitter and
Mobypicture as well as themed layers specific to some subject or
occurrence; during the soccer world cup there was a "Soccertweeps" layer
that only showed soccer-related tweets. It was a nice application of
social networking combined with geolocation and then some AR to give it
that gadgety feeling.

Another development in this space is that Layar is going social itself.
At their last NEXT event in June they announced [1] the introduction of
so-called Floaticons, messaging entities that are placed in AR space
through the Layar browser. It's social media + AR approached the other
way around: rather than generating an AR experience from social media
data, the AR itself is the trigger for generating social media data. I'm
not entirely sure if the concept will stick, but then again not many
people believed in Twitter either. The concept of a mechanism to
directly comment on (which could be a precursor to interacting with) the
augmented space around you is definitely something that has some merit
to me.

Regards,

Jens


[1]
http://site.layar.com/company/blog/event-video-5-lets-talk-product-usage-floaticons-and-kooaba/

Received on Thursday, 22 July 2010 10:59:05 UTC