Something in the AIR in Madison Square: Smarter Cities and Augmented Reality

If you stroll outside IBM’s offices at 11 Madison Ave in New York City with an iPhone or Android-powered smartphone, you’ll discover something strange and new in Madison Square Park, and it’s not the Gormley sculpture exhibit imported from London.

home_phone_box_01Using Tagwhat — the augmented reality (AR) content creation service just launched — we’ve scattered bits of content about Smarter Cities, analytics and the Internet of Things throughout the park.  On one corner there is an item about Cabsense, a new app that predicts the best nearby corner to find a taxi, based on crunching a year’s worth of GPS data and traffic patterns from NYC cabs.

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Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it? | UgoTrade Toward the Sentient City, brought “architects and urban designers into a conversation that until now has been limited largely to technologists,” and created an extraordinary opportunity to investigate distributed architectures of participation of what we might call the “outernet.” This is a timely conversation as “web squared, “smart things,” the “internet of things,” or the “outernet,” and their popular “ambassador” augmented reality are rapidly becoming everyone’s “business.” From “evil” marketers, to global corporations, environmentalists, artists and community activists - everyone, it seems, is interested in the possibilities of this new frontier.

Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it? | UgoTrade

Toward the Sentient City, brought “architects and urban designers into a conversation that until now has been limited largely to technologists,” and created an extraordinary opportunity to investigate distributed architectures of participation of what we might call the “outernet.” This is a timely conversation as “web squared, “smart things,” the “internet of things,” or the “outernet,” and their popular “ambassador” augmented reality are rapidly becoming everyone’s “business.” From “evil” marketers, to global corporations, environmentalists, artists and community activists - everyone, it seems, is interested in the possibilities of this new frontier.

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WhereMark: More AR Discovery for the Outernet - ReadWriteStart

Virginia-based company WhereMark just released a preview of its upcoming app for the iPhone 3GS. By now we’re all familiar with augmented reality applications that place data above a real-time mobile camera view. Companies like Wikitude, RobotVision and Layar have wowed us with their ability to color what is sometimes described as an “outernet.” While it is not yet available to consumers, it will be interesting to see if WhereMark’s application weaves a similar web of intrigue.

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