A briefing presentation to the Australian Science Media Centre on the mainstream adoption and commercialisation of Augmented Reality.

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The Augmented Web
Now your web can see & hear & connect you to the real world...

2. Rob Manson
@nambor
CEO of MOB-Labs the creators of buildAR.com
Chair of the W3C's Augmented Web Community Group
Invited Expert with the ISO, W3C & the Khronos Group
Co-Founder of ARStandards.org
Author of “Getting started with WebRTC” (available July)
https://buildAR.com

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Virtual Reality started in the 60s

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So WTF is Augmented Reality?

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9. Milgram's Mixed Reality Continuum
https://buildAR.com : image credit Paul Milgram, 1994

10. Mobile AR Browsers
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11. World's first Augmented Reality CMS
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12. The Kinect 3D sensor
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Now the evolution is clear!

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So AR is just a feature!

16. Today WebRTC is already unlocking
the Augmented Web for over 1 Billion devices
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Web pages can now
Process Streams of Binary Data

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Web pages can now
Generate Spatialised Audio & Media

19. Sensors are spreading...
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20. https://buildAR.com Wearables at AWE, 2013

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The Augmented Web
Now your web can see & hear & connect you to the real world...