Re: Social AR

Interesting discussion, just diving in (I subscribed just today to this list).

As the developer of TweepsAround (twitter) and Moby, Foursquare for Layar I really see a huge potential for social two way communication in AR.
Currently almost all Layar applications are built round a "read only" concept, apart from some games where user interaction can be seen as a very limited "write" action in geo space.

Both TweepsAround and Foursquare layer support update through the Layar platfrom, although usability certainly is an issue and in practice the bulk of usage is "read only", in other words just looking around. From  a technical perspective, write actions are hardly part of the Layar API model and I doubt it will be any easier on both Junaio or Wikitude. Of course the "floaticons" concept is indeed a kind of social messaging in AR space, but then indeed on a closed platform.

I have been following the ARWave initiative during end 2009 and begin 2010, I liked the idea of using the XMPP/Wave protocol which by its nature provides a rich social interaction model, both for reading (observing?) and writing. Did anything happen to this initiative lately?

Anyway, I would be really interested to take a potential upcoming Facebook checkin feature to Layar (and competing platforms) as time allows, please drop me a line if anyone knows more!

Have a nice day (back to listening mode),

Best,

- Johannes

Op 22 jul 2010, om 15:25 heeft Thomas Wrobel het volgende geschreven:

> I think whats being looked for is something that selectively allows
> messaging to just your friends, like Facebook only broadcasts to
> people you (in theory) have let. Twitter is still a form of mass
> broadcast really, as it exists without account/viewing restrictions.
> 
> Theres quite a few systems out there (or coming out) that let you
> "glue" data to objects or areas and store them globally in the
> company's own database.  Theres certainly big applications for that
> alone, "annotating the world" combined with user-submitted content
> could very quickly get quite powerful. (provided the is a big enough
> pool of users able to contribute)
> 
> But, aside from potential moves by facebook, Ive yet to see any real
> private-messaging done in AR space, and even then its restricted to
> just that company hosting the data for you.
> 
> On 22 July 2010 12:58, Jens de Smit <jens.desmit@surfnet.nl> wrote:
>> 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/
>> 
>> 
>

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