3D California

There’s more to remember from 2009 than the economy slowdown. Techrunch Co-Editor Erick Schonfeld quoted a very interesting chart showing that from a Google Trends point of view, « Augmented Reality » just passed « Virtual Reality » a couple of months ago.

Source : Google Trends

Actually, this Google Trends chart shows many different facts; let’s go through some of them.

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Often in some place dedicated to do business networking, we have few time to get in touch with people. Elsewhere  people don’t always wear some visible elements  allowing to identify them (badge, business card..).
What if you could simply get  some augmented information about  people you briefly meet on an event ?

We can imagine efficient features for a mobile application based on the principle of augmented reality to allow you to capture the “enlarged identity” (Identity) of the people you meet.
Reversely your Augmented ID may be captured by others.

With such a system, you are not defined only by your name and function,…but also by some of your activities in your digital life.

Look at this video to figure out what application developers are preparing for us.

Do you think this is useful today and it will be more and more common within next few years ? What do you think about people sharing more information about them at first glance with another fellow ?

A presentation by Matthew Buckland, GM of Publishing & Social Media at 24.com

An interactive experience proposed by Disney during D23 Expo, which consists in a video projection system on a sandbox where a simple movement or position detection feature enables interactivity with end users. While many similar systems have already been set up in the past – in exhibitions, malls, or venues – projection surface is usually a flat floor or a table, or water. Here, choosing a sandbox as the projection surface makes the experience more engaging and fun – and maybe helps remember few nice moments when you were a kid J.

Only good scenarios take advantage of good technology ideas and it looks like this one is interesting. What do you think ?