I think where wearable computing will take off is as external storage to mobile phones. Store 100+Gb in your pocket and have it delivering MP3s to your phone (Which thus becomes lighter as it's the device you HAVE to take out of your pocket) over some sort of UWB or PAN. That's just the start, of course. I have a suspicion it'll be another sow starter, like USB was. (I remember thinking "Why would I need 10 USB ports?" Foolish me!)
Haven't read the book or seen Imity. Will go and look for.
As for Augmented Reality: I wear glasses already. Everyone I know wears sunglasses. When the only way to tell the difference between AR glasses and normal glasses is a faint greenish glow, THEN we'll see people adopt them. This isn't just speculative thinking, by the way. One of the best "hi res" screen ideas being worked on involves a variant of TI's DLPs and a low power laser writing to the retina of the wearer. Just don't ask me to betatest them.
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Date: 2008-02-08 10:03 am (UTC)Haven't read the book or seen Imity. Will go and look for.
As for Augmented Reality: I wear glasses already. Everyone I know wears sunglasses. When the only way to tell the difference between AR glasses and normal glasses is a faint greenish glow, THEN we'll see people adopt them. This isn't just speculative thinking, by the way. One of the best "hi res" screen ideas being worked on involves a variant of TI's DLPs and a low power laser writing to the retina of the wearer. Just don't ask me to betatest them.
I'd forgotten about UUIDs. Lets sniff both!