Is Projection Mapping Augmented Reality?

Augmented reality, Focus: AR/VR, Thought bites

Is projection mapping augmented reality? I’ve been mulling this over on and off since a few years ago, since being utterly mesmerized by Amon Tobin’s projection mapping concert.  And since this made the rounds in 2015. My knee jerk reaction is – no! Upon further reflection, I’m not so sure. It augments the real world with enhanced data; so why not? Does augmented reality have to mean enhanced information, or does it include *any* data overlay (even just the pretty kind) – and so what if the digital being overlaid, maps to the surface

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The Need for Speed

Artificial intelligence, Data & analytics, Facial recognition, Innovation, LinkedIn post, Payment systems, Uncategorized

Note: this is the text from a Linkedin post I wrote, in response to a post by Cathy Hackl, She visited a concept store that features Alipay’s “smile to pay” facial recognition payment technology. Here’s her video where she’s discovering facial recognition payment systems in China. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6503651708290293760/ As I’ve written about before, I have some very serious reservations about facial recognition technology and how it will completely remove any semblance of privacy or anonymity. And unfortunately, it’s inevitable. What I am worried about is having our biometric data stored in so many databases, where we have

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Slightly uncanny valley

Augmented reality, Deepfakes, Facebook post, Focus: AR/VR

Wow. So. Uncanny valley…one {really bad} selfie and the Pinscreen app maps my face to a 3d avatar from their library (nb: all the female avatars are ridiculously uber sexed up – no, that’s not my body). It follows what my face is doing as well –  with “AR” mode my face was mapped to my boyfriend’s body, with the real room in the background. Amazing how quickly this is all developing; that’s 3 examples in the last few weeks of technology that can quickly, and sometimes – on the fly, create 3d avatars from existing

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Linkedin post: STOs and VC

Cryptocurrency, VC

…here’s the body of my Linkedin post commentary on Tony Perkins’ Medium post, “It’s the end of VC as we know it: The tokenization of private company investment has arrived—and we will all be happier because of it.” The tokenization of the VC business: STOs – asset backed cryptocurrency. I’ve long been watching (and, umm, arguing lol) with the fanboys (so far, it has been only boys) about the viability, long term possibility – and even safety of cryptocurrencies (NB: not blockchain. It’s a solid technology). I’ve even been known to say, “It’s like the dutch

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Our truthy future

Deepfakes, Musing, technology trends

I’m listening to a podcast where they are talking about using interviews with Holocaust survivors as future unalienable “proof” to deniers that it actually happened…what I can’t stop thinking is, with rapidly advancing video editing (and deepfakes) anything we see won’t be any proof at all. Which begs the question…how will anyone know *anything* they see, or hear is real? We are already in the age of “truthiness”, to steal a Stephen Colbert term that hit the nail on the oh-so-perfect-head; if social media is already manipulating us, and we as consumers only believe

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