Augmented Reality

"I can't afford to have an independent programmer monitoring me. Do you have any idea how many outside systems I've gone into?" – Master Control Program, Tron (1982), Walt Disney

Engineers must have fantastic imaginations because in their early stages, most technologies are pretty ugly…wires going every which way, oversized circuit boards, cases the size of breadboxes and beyond.

Software is probably the same but heck, it's a bunch of ones and zeros, so who can tell? Especially with a new technology, called augmented reality (AR), that merges what's real with computer-generated graphics.

To us, AR has been an engineering project in the works for years...always almost ready to productize and dress up for "normal" folks. So we were only mildly interested in seeing what was new in AR at the recent 6Sight conference.

Most of the time, when you see a "personal" AR system, it's some dude with a big backpack and a funky pair of glasses (and you think 3D glasses look bad?).Read more