Wednesday last week I wrote about two Augmented Reality apps being developed by Acrossair catering to commuters on the New York Subway and London Tube systems. Though great news for people looking to start riding those people movers, I found both apps interesting more because they afforded consumers a glimpse into future applications of the tech than out of personal utility—here in Las Vegas, we lack a mass transit system to rival either railway.
Now it looks like we’re going to see another possible way to leverage Augmented Reality research. In this case, the marriage of facial recognition software and AR presentation techniques has given resulted in an interesting “people” program—one that exposes the social networking identities of the person on screen.
Called Augmented ID, the app is currently a concept being developed by TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), a Swedish design and technology company specializing in portable device software. While it’s not clear from the video how they plan to implement certain features of the product such as broadcasting user profiles, it offers one possible practical implementation of personal AR. [YouTube via Gizmodo via The Daily What]
“Two Augmented Reality Subway/Tube Apps for iPhone 3GS Indulge Your Anti-social Tendencies.” Firesaw. July 15, 2009 July 22, 2009 <http://firesaw.blogspot.com/2009/07/two-augmented-reality-subwaytube-apps.html>
“Meet the Tribe.” The Astonishing Tribe. July 22, 2009 <http://www.tat.se/site/thetribe/about.html>
“TAT augmented ID.” YouTube YouTube, LLC July 9, 2009 July 22, 2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0>
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