{"id":5496,"date":"2016-11-30T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.local\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2017-01-30T06:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:55:46","slug":"augmented-reality-the-inevitable-step-in-the-digitising-of-our-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/augmented-reality-the-inevitable-step-in-the-digitising-of-our-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmented reality, the inevitable step in the digitising of our world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I waited hours in the cold to pick up the Snap Spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>The week before I picked up the Google Home.<\/p>\n<p>The third device, out in December, is the new Apple Earpods.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keen to play with all of these.<\/p>\n<p>These\u00a0devices\u00a0represent the early examples of the inevitable next steps in computing.\u00a0The digitisation of the real world experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Augmented reality is the next frontier, it&#8217;s that little step change which we can all accept and get practical use from today. The vital component required for new innovation to get adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Seems Tim Cook agrees;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAR is going to take a <\/em>while,<em> because there are some really hard technology challenges there,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut it will happen, it will happen in a big way, and we will wonder when it does, how we ever lived without it. Like we wonder how we lived without our phone today.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3126607\/ios\/tim-cook-augmented-reality-will-be-an-essential-part-of-your-daily-life-like-the-iphone.html\">MacWorld<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also shared some of my initial experiments with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.local\/google-home-experiments\/\">Google Home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I waited hours in the cold to pick up the Snap Spectacles. The week before I picked up the Google Home. The third device, out in December, is the new Apple Earpods. I&#8217;m keen to play with all of these. These\u00a0devices\u00a0represent the early examples of the inevitable next steps in computing.\u00a0The digitisation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}