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Epson Moverio HackAThon Reportage: Augmented Reality is SO COOL!

Anyone who's ever taken a YouTube video with one hand while trying to drill a hole in a carrot... two words. Augmented Reality!

WackyCapNTrish spent two days at the Epson Moverio HackAThon where Epson's Moverio Product Manager Eric Mizufuka, HackAThon organizer Michael Leyva and Metaio's Trak Lord presented on Metaio, Augmented Reality, the Moverio and made an invitation to Those Who Would Hack.

For anyone with a creative bent, anyone who loves movies, games, enhanced experiences when thumbing through catalogs, 3D movies, 4D experiences at Disneyland and LEGOLAND, thrill rides and technology.  Anyone who's ever taken a YouTube video with one hand while trying to drill a hole in a carrot (or some other inane... wacky... insane task) ... two words.

Augmented Reality.  Augmented Reality!  AUGMENTED REALITYYYYY!

It's too much to explain in one post.  I must spend some time with this topic.  And this, I don't mind.  Because it's really, truly, fun.  And I am really, truly interested.

Today, I will give you the Wikipedia definition of Augmented Reality.  It's complicated.  Please spend some time with it.  Tomorrow we will talk a bit more.

"Augmented reality
(AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality.[1] By contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one.[2][3] Augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulable. Artificial information about the environment and its objects can be overlaid on the real world.[4][5][6][7]"

And to my Friend Pan.  Thank you for giving me the name for what I have been doing.  Reportage.  Does that make me a Reportager?

About the Author
Trish Tsoiasue is a Patch Blogger from Long Beach, CA.  She is planning a trip to the Bay Area, so that she can find people who make things and places that they make things to feature on a Patch blog near her or near you, on her Squigglemom YouTube channel and on her reality show that she is getting ready to launch with Caprice Rothe (Hands of E.T.).


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