Augmented Reality has become more than a buzzword. It represents the next step in human/computer interaction. Interfaces that were once solid have become liquid. With the iPhone, we have the ability to download software from the air. With augmented reality, the interface evaporates from the liquid state into the air as well. Bruce Sterling’s keynote at Layar is a helpful introduction to this field.

There have been a number of applications developed by various companies and individuals, but what’s being done in Portland? As it turns out, quite a lot. I’ve been running an unadvertised Augmented Reality meetup for the past few months (if you’re a developer or Interaction Designer interested in attending this group, comment below), and have found the Portland tech community to be a fertile ground or AR development.

Mobile Portland brings Augmented Reality to you

Starting Monday, you can learn more about what’s going on in Portland AR as well. There will be a meetup at AboutUs.org with two of Portland top AR developers. They’re great people and I highly recommend meeting them. The meeting starts at 6pm at AboutUs.org.

Event Overview

Imagine being able to use your phone to see what that IKEA couch you’ve been considering will look like in your living room. A far-fetched science fiction scenario? No, IKEA has already released an application like that in Europe.

Augmented reality is an exciting and emerging technology. Augmented reality take real life information–typically the video display of a phone–and overlays it with computer information. Augmented reality is something that is completely unique to mobile.

This month at Mobile Portland, we’re lucky to have two speakers who are early innovators in augmented reality. P. Mark Anderson is platform architect for Spot Metrix which provides an augmented reality library for iPhone called 3DAR. Tim Sears created Robotvision, one of the first augmented reality applications for iPhone.

Mark and Tim will share how people are using augmented reality, their experiences using augmented reality, and what the future holds for this new technology.

About the Speakers

P. Mark Anderson

P. Mark Anderson has 13 years experience developing interactive applications. After receiving a degree in Computer Science from University of Colorado in 1999 he started his career as a developer for Sun Microsystems.

In addition to creating several iPhone applications, Mr. Anderson moderates the Helpful iPhone Utilities open source project, as well as My Maps, an augmented reality iPhone app built on top of Google’s personalized mapping system.

Mr. Anderson is platform architect for the 3DAR augmented reality SDK. He enjoys working with both artists and developers, and occupies his spare time with watercolor painting, mountain biking, disc golf and mentoring.

Tim Sears

Tim Sears is a software engineer who works for PR firm Waggener Edstrom by day building web applications, by night creating location-based augmented reality experiences for the iPhone. He created Robotvision, a popular augmented reality browser, for the iPhone in 2009 and currently works with clients to build out mobile geolocation experiences in augmented reality.

His work in augmented reality and social media analytics has been featured in major publications such as ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch and CNET, and has won several awards, including the International Business Awards Best New Product/Service of 2009 for twendz, a real-time Twitter sentiment analysis application.

Date

Monday, January 25, 2010 at 6:00pm

Location

AboutUs Offices
107 SE Washington St., Suite 520,
Portland, Oregon 97214

RSVP on Upcoming.org

Mobile Portland: Augmented Reality on Upcoming.org

Website:

MobilePortland.com

Great News! The next CyborgCamp will be in early May of 2010. That means its time to start planning!

This meeting is everyone’s chance to brainstorm on location ideas, sponsors and speakers. What kinds of topics are of interest to you? How has the idea of Cyborg evolved over the last year? What new kinds of technologies have arrived on the scene?

We’ll discuss volunteers and the wiki too. Come along, especially if you helped make CyborgCamp PDX ‘08 so excellent in the first place. Bring snacks and drinks to share with others.

This planning meeting will most likely be followed by general networking and fun at a local haunt.

RSVP on Upcoming.org

Where:

AboutUs.org

107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520
Portland Oregon 97214
United States

When:

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 from 7–9pm

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What is CyborgCamp?

CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.

CyborgCamp’s aim is to have many communication channels, such as Twitter, Flickr, UstreamTV, Video and Audio recordings and live chats displayed on the screen.
Why May 2010? In March 2010, CyborgCamp will make its way to Brazil and back before landing again in Portland, Oregon for its second year.

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Questions? Contact Amber Case @caseorganic or MJ @mama_j.

You can also follow @cyborgcamp on Twitter for updates.

 

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Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.

Our seventh episode was recorded the evening after Bear and Blog and features Steven Walling, Wikipedia Extraordinaire and chicken tender who works with Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham at Portland’s AboutUs.org, wherein we talked about using Wiki as an academic source (and getting an A for it), Recent Changes Camp 2009, The Wikipedia Manual of Style, breakfast, lunch and dinner, sleeping under the stars and by the river, guinea pigs, User Bots, and trees, snakes, owls and grapevines

Attending Portland networking/social events is one of the best ways to meet innovative locals, learn cool things, and get new clients/collaborators for various projects. A weekly list of Portland Tech/Networking events has been requested of me multiple times, and this list is the culmination of those requests. I hope it benefits you in as many ways as possible!

This week, Bram Pitoyo and I will be attending all of these events. Bram’s reviews can always be found on his blog, Link En Fuego, soon after each event. I’ll be reviewing/live-tweeting from the Internet Strategy Forum as well as doing some experimental analytics on it.

We hope to see you soon!

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Upcoming PDX Tech Events for Wednesday, July 16th, to Friday, July 25th

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Wednesday, July 16th:

Noon to 2 Pm:

LUNCH 2.0 at SOUK
See http://siliconflorist.com for details.

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5:30 Pm

Join SEMpdx & pdxMindShare at this networking and educational event. Meet SEMpdx board members, network with other Web professionals, and learn more about membership and sponsorship opportunities.

Who: Open to all - interested in search engine / Web marketing
What: Networking event
When: Wednesday July 16, 5:30 PM ? PM
Where: Paddy’s Bar & Grill
Why: networking, meet SEMpdx, learn about membership & benefits
How much?: Free, no host bar
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6:30 Pm

Writing For Web for Fun and Profit.
(At the Kennedy School - Ask me for details)

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8:30 Pm

Tweetup with Charlene Li (from Forrester Research, a keynote speaker at Internet Strategy Forums). This means drinking.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/903763

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Thursday, July 17th:

8:30Am-5:00Pm

Internet Strategy Forum - Portland, OR

6Pm:

ISF Afterparty (Contact me for details).

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Thursday, July 17th:

6:00 Pm

SECP Meetup/Portland Freelancer’s Meetup. NE Portland at the Stamp Society Building. $10. (Ask me for details).

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Friday, July 18th:

9Am-10Am:

Morning Meetings: Marketing (Recurring)
[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/634899/ ] Come into CubeSpace between 9 and 10 a.m. on weekdays to chat for free with the professional-in-residence about your needs.
The Friday topic is: Marketing, including web 2.0 and branding

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4Pm

Beer and Blog at the Green Dragon! Yay!
928 SE 9th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
Generally at 4Pm

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Monday 21st:

6:30Pm-8:00Pm

Legion of Talk (Sponsored by Legion of Tech)
Mark Shuttleworth

Mark will be speaking out Ubuntu, the community-developed the open source operating system he founded, as well as his travels in space. Mark was the second man ever to travel to space on a private space craft!

McMenamins Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Doors open 5:30pm (come early, have dinner & hang out with us before the talk)

This one is going to be HUGE.
Register and find out more at www.LegionOfTech.org

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Tuesday, July 22nd:

6Pm:

PANEL DISCUSSION #2 - PDXplore PNCA - 6:00 Pm. “In The Round: Collective Leadership” featuring mayor-elect Sam Adams, Metro president David Bragdon, Hillsboro mayor Tom Hughes, Portland planning director Gil Kelley, and City of Gresham executive manager Alice Rouyere.

A transcript of the PANEL DISCUSSION #1 is here.

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Tuesday, July 22nd:

6Pm:

PDX Net Tuesday July - New Tools for the Nonprofit Sector
AboutUs.org - 107 SE Washington St. Suite 520

This event is usually really fun, has beer, and then a sort of discussion of things.

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See you there!

Your Friendly Neighborhood Cyborg Anthropologist

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If you’d like more information on any of these events, or would like to contact the organizers about workshops, don’t hesitate to E-mail me. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might benefit from it.

I’d love to see you on Twitter. You can follow me at: http://twitter.com/caseorganic

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Tonight, my friends Heather and Max and I went to the WikiWednesday Open House event at Portland’s AboutUs.org. We met Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham.

The event consisted of a networking session followed by a conference in critical thinking led by Ward. We discussed the current manifestation of Wikipedia, the future of the Wiki, and it’s limitations. The notes I took there will form the basis of a new series of posts and a few papers.

After the conference, Ward talked about AOL, the endless September of the Internet. Before the net was open to the masses, college students used to have to deal with the new waves of college students that were just learning to use the Internet every September. After a month or so, the Freshmen would learn how to use the Internet correctly and everyone would continue to improve the system as a whole.

Then AOL arrived on the scene. The September never ended. Not everyone ever figured out how to use the web like the generations of college students before them. Thus, AOL became termed as the “endless September”.