Posts Tagged ‘augmented reality’
Soundbite: Kissengers enable physically interactive telekissing
Posted by: mariamz on: February 6, 2012
Kissengers have an artificial mouth that provides “the convincing properties of a real kiss” … [they] allow for three different types of interaction: human-to-human telekisses, human-to-robot kisses to allow for an intimate relationship with a robot, and human-to-virtual-character kisses Olivia Solon
Personal mannequins: let’s get beyond gimmicky Augmented Reality
Posted by: mariamz on: July 4, 2011
Does the idea of your electronic likeness appearing in shop windows as you walk past appeal? How about if this virtual self was wearing clothes you don’t own but the retailer thinks you might like? It was with great anticipation I began reading the other day about new technology allowing people to see virtually what they [...]
Soundbite: let’s be cyborgs
Posted by: mariamz on: July 3, 2011
This future could not arrive soon enough. The smartphone that we have all grown completely dependent upon has become one of the rudest technologies ever invented. It harasses us when we have a new e-mail, text message or social network update. Technologies that are wearable and more aware of their surroundings, and therefore able to tell when [...]
Mobile, social, being in the world with the ‘Internet of things’
Posted by: mariamz on: February 18, 2011
I have used the simple notion of the social object often, to frame, discuss and describe online communities and engagement online. But to consider the social web in conjunction with the growth of the mobile internet, another concept can well augment it: Heidegger’s concept of the ‘dasein‘ – the human, ‘being-in-the-world.’ What is a social object? A social object is something people [...]
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