Augmented Reality
Using mobile devices, information can be layered on top of everyday experiences. Using GPS and other locative technologies, units carried on people’s bodies provide information about places, people and transportation. Today, augmented reality is being used in applications for smart phones, combining phones’ abilities to locate themselves with data available from online sources.
Thus while augmented reality at first seems like it has low infrastructural requirements (a phone), it is actually drawing upon cell towers, GPS satellites, and online frameworks for user-generated data. With technologies available for facial recognition and the ability to work with data coming from other phones, applications for augmented reality promise to offer fascinating opportunities for innovative event programming and new directions in signage and wayfinding.
Thus while augmented reality at first seems like it has low infrastructural requirements (a phone), it is actually drawing upon cell towers, GPS satellites, and online frameworks for user-generated data. With technologies available for facial recognition and the ability to work with data coming from other phones, applications for augmented reality promise to offer fascinating opportunities for innovative event programming and new directions in signage and wayfinding.
