Jul 20, 2022 | augmented reality, books, bruceb, humor
Uncommon Scents is a novel by – why, it’s by me! And by Jim Rowson, a former Google software engineer, who has joined me in writing a a cautionary frolic that has more humor and 80% less dystopia than the average near-future thriller. Jim should not be held...
Jul 13, 2022 | augmented reality, business, news
Three weeks ago Drew Perkins, the CEO of Mojo Vision, wore a feature-complete augmented reality smart contact lens at the company’s labs in Saratoga, CA. He could “interact with a compass to find my bearings, view images, and use an on-screen teleprompter.” To be...
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...
