ENDGAME will combine novels, e-books, online and social media and augmented reality gaming in one project. Each book will have a prize at stake, for ENDGAME: THE CALLING… gold. Continue reading “Endgame” To Be A Massive AR Hunt — With Gold
Google’s purchase of Nest might be an attempt to crack the “connected home” market by using its resources to place Nest products in millions of homes. Continue reading Google Buys Nest, Raises Privacy Concerns
Google has added a crowd-sourcing element to Street View; using an Android handset or DSLR camera, users can upload panoramas to a gallery of views. Continue reading It’s a Google “Street View” party
Wearable computing, including smart glasses and smartwatches, is considered the next frontier in consumer electronics. Continue reading Tech Experts Debate The Smarts Of The ‘Smartwatch’
A new report speculates Google Glass may change the way we compute just as the iPhone changed the mobile industry, possibly becoming just as omnipresent. Continue reading Google Glass Heralded as the Next iPhone
While Google prepares to release eyewear that provides a window to the Web, a startup on the edge of its campus is readying glasses that overlay the Internet on the world in 3D. Atheer Labs on Thursday provided the first public look at prototype eyewear that lets people manipulate virtual objects. Continue reading Startup glasses overlay Internet on real world
Eight Congress members are questioning how Google Glass would impact the privacy of the “average American.” Continue reading Google Glass Causing Congressional Privacy Concerns
The Google Fiber initiative really is the killshot move with all their self-driving cars and Internet-enabled glasses initiatives. That’s because these new products will need a large amount of high-availability bandwidth to keep all those cars between the ditches and glasses cranking out real time data. Continue reading The Google Fiber Plan for Everyone Else
Google Glass will be banned in Las Vegas (via The Inquirer)
AUGMENTED REALITY EYEWEAR Google Glass has been prospectively banned in more places ahead of its release, as its surveillance capabilities trigger more concerns. While some thought news of a Seattle bar banning Google Glass was little more than a PR stunt, it seems not, as yet more firms have preemptively…
We take a look ahead at some of the technology that could make the leap to the consumer in 2013… and why they likely won’t. Continue reading Tech Trends of 2013 (and the two reasons they will fail)