Jun 29, 2022 | augmented reality, business, law, news, Privacy, security
I’ve been writing about privacy for a long time. I wrote a series of articles about location tracking and a useful overview of data brokers and a long series of articles about privacy and trust. Most recently I wrote a cautionary article about why privacy concerns...
Jun 19, 2022 | augmented reality, law, Politics, Privacy, virtual reality
Ten years from now you may pick up your augmented reality glasses automatically, exactly as you pick up your phone today. The glasses will do many of the same things, plus they’ll offer new ways to communicate or obtain information or entertain yourself. They also...
Jun 12, 2022 | augmented reality, Facebook, Google, law, Politics, security
Augmented reality will fail unless it comes with augmented privacy. This is completely separate from the technical difficulty of developing AR equipment. Apple decided not to talk about its AR glasses at last week’s developer conference because they need more time to...
May 15, 2022 | Android, augmented reality, Google, hardware
Google demonstrated an augmented reality product last week that may never exist. I don’t want you to look at it and decide to sit at your desk hitting refresh on the Google Store waiting for it to go on sale. It’s exciting but it’s not that kind of demo. It’s...
Apr 20, 2022 | Amazon, augmented reality, Echo, hardware, virtual reality
Amazon is quietly doing its own research into augmented reality glasses and apps. Evidence has been uncovered that Amazon is assembling a sizable team to work on some kind of AR/VR device. And in some sense Amazon is ahead of the others, because it has already...
Apr 10, 2022 | augmented reality, business, Facebook, games, virtual reality
Niantic is a tech company developing tools and games for the day when augmented reality will be widely adopted. Niantic’s founder and CEO John Hanke has strong opinions about the very different worlds of augmented reality and virtual reality, saying that the metaverse...
