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AugmentedReality, Contest, general, Social Networking
Geospatial and Marketing Gimmicks
Many popular news sites, such as the Telegraph, have picked up the story of Nestle UK’s campaign that embeds GPS trackers in candy bars, comparing it to the Golden Ticket […]
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The Lightsquared Saga Continues
Lightsquared is not prepared to go gently into the night. They have hired Theodore Olson (among others) to help argue their case. Olson is most famous for having successfully argued for Bush […]
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AugmentedReality, Cool Stuff, VirtualEnvironments
Affordable Virtual Reality?
A big part of my research for about a decade now has been exploring the development of immersive virtual landscapes, and how evolving technologies continue to make impressive strides toward […]
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Lightsquared Pretty Much Out Of The Fight
Lightsquared, who last month received a conditional waiver from the FCC on its products, looks like it might be in trouble as the FCC has withdrawn that waiver. Obviously the […]
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Warrantless GPS tracking unconstitutional
Based on a syllabus from the Supreme Court released on January 23, the use of GPS tracking outside of a warrant is a breach of the Fourth Amendment. As stated […]
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Lego and Augmented Reality
I’m going to cop to this not being an overtly geographic post… but it’s Lego. And augmented reality. If I may indulge to my inner child for a moment… SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! […]
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AugmentedReality, Programming/Dev, Software
Layar Vision – Is mobile AR finally knocking on the door of relevance?
In the mad scramble to finish editing my PhD dissertation and graduate, I haven’t been following the latest and greatest tech in the geospatial realm as much as I should […]
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AugmentedReality, Cartography, Cool Stuff, Education, general, Human Geography
Animated Maps on Memorial Day Weekend
On this memorial day weekend the History Channel is kicking off a week of Civil War themed shows. While watching I thought I’d see if there were any interesting maps […]
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AugmentedReality, Cool Stuff, VirtualEnvironments
Sony SmartAR – markerless augmented reality
Augmented reality is one of those technologies that has seemed like it would be next big thing for the last couple of years, but it has proven pretty difficult to […]
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Emergency Location to the Centimeter
It makes sense that emergency response can be quicker and more efficient if they know exactly where to go. GPS is ok, but being off even 10m can be too […]
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