From Science-Fiction to Science Fact: An overview of technologies for integrating AR in our daily lives

I've given a talk today at the IMAGinE "unconference":

From Science-Fiction to Science Fact:
An overview of technologies for integrating AR in our daily lives
By: Tal Arie
Description: A common tool in SciFi movies, AR is presented as an ideal way for interacting with some types of information. The film "Iron Man", for example, presents a Human Machine Interface that seems to open up possibilities for designers and researchers that were never possible before (and are still not possible to that degree). The "film" Minority Report presents a Human Machine Interface for dealing with large quantities of visual data (which is Science Fact). The talk presents a quick review of current and up-and-coming technologies for enabling Augmented Reality in our daily lives, including - 3D displays - holographic projectors (enclosed, and mid-air) - AR glasses (such as Microsoft's and Google's) as well as technologies for interacting with AR (if time permits).

The presentation is available here.

Following my presentation, one of the participants asked me whether I had a blog or some similar public presence, which is why I decided to create this blog.

Since this is the first post on this blog, I'll use the opportunity to define the blogs purpose:

I track technology (being an Inventor, Software Engineer, and a Technology Enthusiast).

A particular set of technologies that I'm interested in have to do with NUI, which stands for Natural User Interfaces. These include motion based user interfaces (think Kinect, LeapMotion, MUV, etc.), holographic or volumetric display technology (and 3D display technology in general), voice activation as well as Artificial Intelligence in general and in particular around user interaction (think "Jarvis" from the film "Iron Man").

Take a look at the presentation, I spent literally hours and hours researching the material. There's an endless list of works being done on this topic (and lots of youtube video demonstrations as well) which I wasn't able to contain in it. If you're enthusiastic about Augmented Reality like me, and also believe it to be The Next Big Thing, then you may have come to the right place.