12 - The Future of Social Networking with Augmented Reality

by Lennart Nacke

Welcome to the trans­par­ent life of the future. Although this might be a bit off topic, I wanted to include it here in the advent spe­cial as well. Matthew Buckland from South Africa, head of 20FourLabs.com, deliv­ered a strik­ing and bril­liant pre­sen­ta­tion about the Future Of Social Networking. He out­lines how infor­ma­tion about peo­ple, objects and loca­tions could become instantly acces­si­ble with the next gen­er­a­tion of mobile devices. The mock­ups are excel­lent and the vision is not too aloof to become true one day. Have a look at this vision­ary pre­sen­ta­tion below:


What came to my mind instantly was the MIT Media Lab project Sixth Sense from Pranav Mistry, which was made famous in the TED talk from Pattie Maes (see bonus video below). In a sim­i­lar way, sixth­sense would be the ideal inter­face to inter­act with the infor­ma­tion made avail­able as envi­sioned in Matthew Buckland’s slides. And again, the demo shows that this is not too far away. It will be excit­ing to look back on this post in 5 years and see how much of these visions have become real­ity and how they will have trans­formed our life and inter­ac­tions by then.

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