https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/envisics-ar-windshield-technology/ Traffic was back to a new normal. Crawling, then frantic overtaking, undertaking, catch-up. He felt the stop start seep into his mood. As he tensed, the seat changed its support, the news channel chose different stories and it began. Barely perceptible, the circles gently pulsed, mirroring the new stories’ sentences. As they slowed, the …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #122
https://www.engadget.com/google-ar-cloud-anchors-shared-experiences-153257346.html Welcome. We may be distributed but we’re first and foremost a team. Back in The Before – when I joined – all new recruits met for a Community Action day. We went out into our community and picked up what was called “litter” or scrubbed out graffiti. Well, we’re re-inventing that tradition. Today, wherever …
Dispatches from an advertising future #109
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/traders-set-to-don-virtual-reality-headsets-in-their-home-offices/ He’d always been slightly envious of them, their corner of the office. It was just more… fun. They had paper, lots of it. Doodles and post-it notes with half-written jokes or quotes. Their screens always looked better too, their software exciting. And then there were the gadgets and games. They justified playing as work …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #106
https://adage.com/article/digital/heres-what-facebooks-new-future-facing-ar-glasses-look/2281271 She liked offending people. No, that’s wrong: she liked that she could offend people. No, that’s not fair either: she liked that she could inadvertently offend people. She liked accidents and mistakes, social failures. She liked clumsily saying the wrong thing or making some faux pas. It was part of her. As Oscar Wilde …
Dispatches from an advertising future #105
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/15/researchers-ready-world-first-vision-restoration-device-for-human-clinical-trials/?guccounter=1 It was his birthday. They remembered the doctor, five years ago. He’d be able to see, she said. The operation was simple and free. The sponsored Glimpses (™) were not invasive, she told them. The Reith act meant they had to “educate, inform or entertain”. And, she said, she had good news. Previous patients …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #90
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-ar-shopping-furniture-home-decor-171005257.html This was the last place on their list. The advert said ‘apartment’. Bearing in mind how much time she’d spend in it, with most university activities in a “blended environment”, she preferred the English word ‘flat’. It seemed to sum up the dull, lifeless couple of rooms. They looked at each other as the …