A couple weeks ago, I spent the day at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View to take part in inaugural Augmented Reality Developer Camp (#ARDevCamp).
From the wiki:
After nearly 20 years in the research labs, Augmented Reality is taking shape as one of the next major waves of Internet innovation, overlaying and infusing the physical world with digital media, information and experiences. We believe AR must be fundamentally open, interoperable, extensible, and accessible to all, so that it can create the kinds of opportunities for expressiveness, communication, business and social good that we enjoy on the web and Internet today. As one step toward this goal of an Open AR web, we are organizing AR DevCamps technical sessions and hacking opportunities in an open format, BarCamp style.
The first Augmented Reality Development Camp (AR DevCamp) took place Saturday December 5, 2009 at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View CA and simultaneously in New York City and Mancherster, U.K.!
This was an "un-conference" and decidedly informal (although surprisingly efficient and productive). I met several great people including Mathijs Gajentaan from the Layar dev shop, Winvolve and Rick Prelinger from the amazing Prelinger Archives.
My primary interest is in the as-yet-defined confluence between AR and filmmaking. AR is a new medium and promises to be an exciting space to tell stories and create engaging narratives. As a filmmaker, producer, writer, and Director of Marketing at SFSDF, I spend much of my time watching the evolution of the film medium - creatively, culturally and from business perspectives. And I'm convinced that AR - while admittedly at a very early stage - will be an important leap in the industry.
Interest in my particular topic was strong and myself and about 20 others spent a half hour talking about the challenges and opportunities presented by AR - specifically from an artistic perspective. Have a look at the Session Notes for specifics. We left optimistic and agreed that we should continue a dialog.
Tonight, we begin what is hopefully a long series of meetings to define, maneuver through and create in this new space. Our host is Walter Funk (Hologlyphics) and we'll be posting up at Noisebridge for an hour or so
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