Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2012

I’m of course talking about Project Glass , an R&D program by Google to prototype and build an augmented reality head-mounted display (or HMD). That being said, with all the attention this video has received, Google clearly has something that’s captured our imaginations. The glasses are simply an alternative deployment mechanism.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 28, 2011

Search engines, once the gatekeepers to the Web, are giving way to Facebook. Google and everything it represents, is facing the first stages of irrelevancy. The rise of Google-type search and “knowledge at your fingertips” seemed to herald all that was needed for anyone to find the answer to anything.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2012

From sports telecasting (the yellow “first down line”) to mobile phone applications (Google Sky Map), AR is changing the way we live AND learn. Some examples of effective AR using mobile phones include: Google Sky Map – augments your view of the sky with a map of the brightest stars, constellations, and planets in that part of the sky.

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