communication device to become a mobile computer with capabilities for
human-digital interaction yet to be realised. Modern smartphones have
fast mobile processors, cameras, accelerometers and GPS. These have
created the opportunity for the web to evolve and the mobile phone to
become the portal to this new web, the Articulated Naturality Web.
History
The Articulated Naturality Web is the brain child of Steve Chao, Chief
Executive Officer at QPC Mobility. Chao coined the term in 2009 to
describe what he saw as the next internet He saw it as part of the
renaissance in human culture made possible through the advancement in
technology where the capability of the human organism becomes fused with
the power of modern mobile phone technology.
Augmented reality is originally a term that may have been first used by
Thomas Caudell (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality)
however the technology can trace it's lineage further back. Once again,
as with the internet
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Three_terminals_and_an_ARPA),
it was the military who pioneered the early application of overlay on
the real world. As far back as 1941 the British overlaid electronic
information in an early heads-up display
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display) used in the de Havilland
Mosquito (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito) night
fighter and earlier examples are found in gun sights used in bomber
aircraft.
The development of the GPS network was also driven by the military and
the Cold War. The capability for ballistic missile submarines to
accurately position itself before launching a nuclear salvo and the
MIRVs from ICBMs to accurately hit their target made an accurate, global
positioning system a necessity and in 1973 the Defense Navigation
Satellite System was started by the Pentagon. (ref -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#History). The
technology is advancing in consumer GPS to increase accuracy using
assisted-GPS technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS)
which is bringing the potential of an Articulated Naturality Web
ever-closer.
Ubiquitous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing) or
pervasive computing has advanced apace in the first decade of the new
millennium. The earliest consumer smartphone device may have been the
Nokia 9000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator) and
since then the devices have become smaller and faster with significantly
longer battery life.
Engelbart's mouse
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_(computing)#Early_mice) changed how
people interacted with computer information and made the windowed
operating system possible The user interface eventually evolved from
green text on a black screen through to the windowed interface invented
by Xerox and popularised by Apple and Microsoft (ref
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface#Xerox_PARC).
Users now interact with mobile operating systems using touch and finger
gestures.
Concepts
Articulated Naturality spans a wide area of the virtuality continuum
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality_Continuum) and brings together
many new emerging technologies to create a revolutionary user experience
of the real and digital world. It aims to be as intuitive as possible
for the user to get a natural experience of the digital world overlaid
on the real.
The evolution of technology has made a leap in human-machine and
human-human interaction possible. Humankind is ever-closer to realising
Human 2.0. In the Articulated Naturality Web organic human senses like
sight and hearing can become more than evolution designed them to be.
The power of the digital information becomes available where it's needed
and presented in harmony with the environment through the overlay of
digital objects upon the real world.
The computing revolution forced people to interact with information in
an inorganic way so a person wanting to know where the nearest bank was
would have to go through several steps like searching the internet,
skimming through search results and entering location information before
finally getting the address of the nearest bank then they need to put
the information into their GPS navigation software a couple of years
ago. This was perceived to be too many steps and unintuitive. It misses
the potential of how information could be made available with the
advances in smartphones and GPS. The AN way would see the user click the
bank icon in the local search menu, an arrow appear in their field of
view and they be guided there directly.
The smartphone becomes the window to this world of information where
it's meant to be and displayed in a way that makes intuitive sense to
the user. Augmented reality applications make this possible however many
applications still lack the naturality of interaction. ARticulated
Naturality is focused on bridging the gap and bringing the age of Human
2.0 closer.
ANW technology services include video scene feature identification,
image processing, multi-sensor coordination, real-time positioning,
wireless access, media information, digital publication, entertainment
and other fields of augmented reality. The combination of these
components coupled with the Internet and mobile Internet technology will
form an emerging industry. (ref -
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/21/qpcs-articulated-naturality-web-looks-to-one-up-augmented-reali).
QPC Mobile's proprietary Ambient Intelligence Engine (AIE) is an
technology being developed to spontaneously recognize the user's
environment the moment he or she lifts his mobile device and aims the
camera into the field of view. It's far ahead of modern marker-based AR
applications which require a barcode for the phone to recognise an
object, for example Redlaser. Several other technologies are being
developed at Rekimoto Labs (http://lab.rekimoto.org/projects/) in Japan
to harness the potential of technology and drive forward the next
revolution.
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