Augmented ID - a coming AR identity app for the phone
From PSFK:
Swedish software and design company The Astonishing Tribe are currently developing Augmented ID, an augmented reality concept for mobile phones. This utilizes facial recognition software (supplied by Polar Rose) to visualize the digital identities of those around you.
By simply aiming your mobile device at someone, you would be able to access that individual’s pre-selected information through floating icons that would appear around their image. These could contain anything from a phone number and email address to links to their favorite content or social networking platforms.
I made a comment which went overlooked/ignored which I left on Engadget’s site in regard to the same post, something to the effect that in the future, everyone and everything will have an RFID tag for the sole purpose of AR use.
AR is going to be subsidized by advertising. There’s going to be almost no way around it save for advanced ad-blocking software which the cell carriers are going to fight against vigorously.
We’ll be subject of links to things like the site of the manufacturers of his shirt, suit, tie… the rim’s of the other man’s glasses. Stores where you can buy these things should you want them. The aroma of their cologne might even be sensed and processed. Cell phones are on a developing path into a device like Star Trek’s Tricorder, but even more diverse than Gene Rodenberry and subsequent genre writers could imagine.
Hmmm… sorry. I went on a rant. I should quote myself and repost on tumblr :D
Chris - rant away! ;)
If everyone and everything has RFID tags, then we’ll see more patent applications like this too
http://futurismic.com/2009/06/19/injectable-arphid-will-let-satellites-track-you-world-wide-and-maybe-kill-you/
I sure hope AR doesn’t just become an immersive world of spam. Here’s hoping that the early adopters are able to develop spam-blockers and filters to keep it under control.
Because there’s plenty of potential for cool locative art (see Gibson’s Spook Country) and other such interesting ideas in the AR future.
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