Ambient Discovery - Augmented Reality Event 2011

Ambient DiscoveryAaron Parecki

Augmented Reality Event • May 2011aaron@parecki.com • http://aaron.pk •

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Sparkfun Hardware GPS

• As expensive as a phone

• Not real-time, download the data every night

• Another device to charge and carry

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Phones with GPS Hardware

• One of a small subset of smartphones with GPS capability in 2008.

• Now, most smartphones have this capability. aaron.pk/are11@aaronpk

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Location is just beginning to be feasible.Timing, Hardware, Affordability

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You Schedule A Meeting

You say 3pm.

You think he’ll show up precisely at 3.

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Uncertainty Ensues

15 minutes before, you start getting anxious.He could show up any time between now and 3:30!

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Co-location Negotiation

These redundant messages can be eliminated if you know where someone is.

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real life relationships are temporal, not

permanent

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Temporal Relationships

Relationships for a limited timeMeeting a client – 30 minutes before the meetingCarpooling to work – every day from 8-9amEven with friends, their location is not always relevant to me

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Inform users of significant social updates.

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Information should be pushed to you

A robot working for you behind the scenes. The more it knows about you the more it can do for

you.

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It’s less important where

you go out to eat, and more important

who you go out to eat with.

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Personal location

analytics

Everyone has a unique footprint of their city.

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Location-Based Triggers

Some fun uses for real-time location

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AutomaticCheck-ins

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GeonotesLocation-Based Reminders

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GeonotesSend messages to your future self!

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Send an address as a Geonote.It will arrive where you need it.

Proximal Address

Notification

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• Sends users notifications of restaurants nearby their location that are below a threshold of cleanliness.

• Made by Reid Beels at a Geoloqi Hackathon

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Trigger-Based Actions

Create triggers based on where users are.

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Turning On/Off Your Lights

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Geoloqi APIYour Home

Server

X10SMSified.com

Your Home Lights

And sending an SMS confirmation

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Home AutomationWhen you are automatically checked in to your house, your lights turn on!

When you leave the house, your lights turn off!

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your phone becomes a remote control for reality.

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Real-time location-based gaming aaron.pk/are11

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Ambient discoveryrequires

intelligent systems

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Make computerswork for you

rather than against you

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Thank You.

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Aaron Parecki @aaronpk