Its in Dutch, good, 10 minutes long and the first item in the program. After the click on the cue image you’ll be taken to the broadcast website (the dont do embeds…)

The item is about the fact that its not allowed to do VOIP over 3G. Skype and other apps display a message telling you that its not allowed when you try this. It is allowed over wifi. And it does work with a hacked phone.

SPRX thinks its logical that operators do this yet they inhibit the use of the phone which has so much more value which will be benifitial to the individual as well as the corporate entity. Its a short sighted rule. Its like the railroad company forbidding taking a bicyle on the train becuase its also a transport mode and might be used instead of the train.

In the program the helpdesk of all operators are called to ask them about VOIP over 3G. None of them knew what they were talking about.

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Pattie Maes from MIT at TED09. “Unveiling the “Sixth Sense, game-changing wearable tech”. A demonstration of a project spearheaded by Pranav Mistry. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.

It very relevant because its the first time I’ve seen an AR demo which isnt IN a pair of goggles or ON your mobile phone. And its made with off the shelf technology worth $350. Also its all the ‘AR dream’ movies we’ve been posting here come to live.

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Turn up the volume and play full screen.

Its more Augmented Reality in the new Röyksopp video for ‘Happy Up There‘. The first single from their latest album ‘Junior’! Directed by Reuben Sutherland

Via MAMK

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A talk Ori Inbar, from Gamesalfresco.com, gave at the Winter Augmented Reality Meeting (WARM 2009) in Graz University (Austria) in February 2009.
A year of research distilled into 16 min. of uncut fast paced presentation: a case for unleashing Augmented Reality into the mass market - Today.

Well worth its 16 minutes!

Tip of the hat to Idealize and @zorg20

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I wish!

Watch an even longer version here (second one).

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Patrick J. Gyger is the director of the Science Fiction museum in Switzerland (”Maison d’Ailleurs is located in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. It owns over 60,000 books and thousands of pulp magazines, as well as many other items related to science fiction and its imagery”). He did a great overview of futuristic graphical and images material from the past. And had some intriguing insights.

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David Rose, CEO of Vitality, is a product designer, technology visionary, and social entrepreneur. He has a great story and vision about how you can get information and interactivity out of your screen and into your umbrella, your pill box or bus stop.

The Web of Things Blogs has a summation:

by Dominique Guinard

Great pleasure to be able to attend another talk from David Rose from Ambient Devices and Vitality Inc.

Instead of a pure transcription I’ll try to sum up some aspects of the talk. Note that does not entirely reflect what Dave meant but rather my interpretation
of the talk. Dave began by talking about clairvoyance and magics. He explained how they materialized these chimers into the well-known Orb which changes its color according to a trend. Dave then explained how ambient devices where between push and pull technologies, how they should be peripherial and seamless with the environment(s).

He explained how facinated he was by the idea of dashboards a information concentrators. He especially focused on how to design them in an ambient manner so that they do not turn into pizza-style-portals with too much information to be really integrated to the environment. In the field of weather forcast he presented a prototype he designed recently. This small black screen provides very general information and is very ambient when people are far away. As people come closer it displays more accurate information and increases the info bandwidth and concentration on the screen.

The next part of the talk was about life-cycles of nature and the way to map it as an output interface for ambient devices. As an example gardening and the growing of fruits and vegetables could be mapped to something like the Orb. As apples grow they change their colors (green to yellow to reddish…) the same pattern can be applied to ambient devices.

He then talked about monitoring the energy consumption, an especially interesting topic to us our Energie Visible project develops. He pointed at the fact that energy metering is already in place just not at the right place and not using the right human-computer interface. It is in our cellars when it should be informing us in our living room. In this field he introduced the off-the-shelves products of Ambient Devices Inc.

He went on talking about one of the products of Vitality Inc. The Glowcap is the world’s first Internet connected pill cap! It may sound silly but it actually has a number of uses. It can be used to coordinate re-fills for instance or to check whether you really take your medications. It reminds me of a paper we wrote a while ago about RFDiyin the hospital. But Glowcaps go far beyond and I think they encapsulate the evolution of the Internet of Things. From being able to identify things to being able to enhance and literally connect things..

The last project he talked about was the Ambient umbrella, that knows when it’s gonna rain. While it has not real use it makes a point: take the information away from your browser, embed the Internet into every-day objects.

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This is a hour long video where Marc Andreessen gives his take on everything concerning IT, Mobile, cloud computing, social networks and more. He has a great view of what makes the valley and other industries tick and who is doing well and why. He doesn’t seems to up to speed on mobile yet but that will come.

Marc wrote the original code for Mosaic which ended up in Internet Explorer and also started Netscape which now turned into Firefox. He can take credit for both.. In 1999 he started Loudcloud (rebranded into Opsware) which was one of the first cloud computing enterprises. He is also founder of Ning and is on the board of Facebook and ebay among others. And he is an early investor in Twitter and Qik (hmmm maybe he does get Mobile just didnt say in the interview?). He now also started his own VC fund.

Here is the transcript.

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Mr. Enver Tanriverdi from the Dutch town of Nieuwegein has fully automated his house. Although I have seen many of these examples in lab-situations, I never saw this implemented to such a level in a normal home. Where an entire family lives!

The cool thing is that this guy has installed and programmed it all himself, and is controlling his curtains, lights, heating, webcams (in children’s rooms) through his mobile.

Watch the video and full article here (in Dutch, source AD):

http://www.ad.nl/multi-media/3005552/Hele_huis_in_mobieltje.html

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I saw this and more examples and demonstrations live by Daniel Wagner back stage at the Mobile Peer Awards during the Mobile World Congress. I was blown away about the state of Augmented Reality on the mobile phone, the render power is really impressive.

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