Wednesday 21 September 2011

TED TALKS: AUGMENTED REALITY



Today we watch one of a selection of screenings from Ted Talks. 
Wireless data from every light bulb
What we learned from 5 million books
Magic and Lies on iPods 

First, a fascinating development in augmented reality, part of the revolution in the way that intuitive computer technology is changing our daily life. In this lecture, the architect of Bing maps at Microsoft demonstrates how maps can carry additional information.

Watch Blaise Aguera y Arcas on Ted Talks:  augmented reality maps



In the second example Tim Berners-Lee explains the vital importance of open source data. The example shown relates to an American lawyer correlating data about water supplies to housing with data about the ethnicity of householders: he succeeded in demonstrating that the water board had conspicuously failed  to connect black householders.

Watch Tim Berners-Lee on Ted Talks: Tim Berners Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide

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