Session Title
Augmented Reality: Is It Real? Should We Care?
Presenter
Kevin Cheng, Twitter
Session Type: Presentation
This year, we’ve seen the mobile market make incredible strides in technology. The iPhone, Android and Palm platforms have increased their functionality well beyond just being a phone and have added critical functions such as faster internet connectivity, video cameras, GPS and compasses. Handheld gaming devices have also converged, adding cameras and accelerometers to their devices.
The combination of all of these pieces have made Augmented Reality—overlaying information and technology virtually over what you see—become a true possibility. Suddenly, science fiction has become much less fictional.
This presentation will:
– share my personal experiences and insights from developing a game for this new medium
– cover some of the challenges and considerations when designing for such an experience
– the viability of this medium
– how we could apply aspects of augmented reality to projects
– include other examples of such projects on the market ranging from entertainment to practical applications
Biography
Kevin Cheng splits his crayon time between many endeavors. He is a product manager at Twitter, the co-founder and artist for OK/ Cancel, a webcomic on user experience, and the author of the upcoming book, See What I Mean: How to Communicate Ideas with Comics. Most recently, he is also co-produced an iPhone augmented reality ghost hunting game. Kevin blogs at kevnull.com and has been known to Twitter as @k.
