For our readers that study Game Theory the title of this post is all that has to be said. Speaking only from this discipline, Apple has already lost in any theater of war it opens in the service of maintaining an iPhone-only world. While it is not impossible to arrive at a future without Android, it is more possible to arrive at a future with market equilibrium. This is both true and paradoxical.

Augmented Reality "AR" for short is infiltrating every medium we use
to communicate. It uses sophisticated display techniques involving
cellphone cameras or webcams. If a device has a camera and a
processor, then it's AR capable. In the war for consumer attention, AR
is the new weapon of choice, and its making a lot of nose. For
Splendora's Style and Culture Radar I've picked 5 things that stand
out from the crowd of today's Augmented Reality hype machine. Not
simply newsworthy but beautiful and useful as well, here are 5

As some of you know, I have been actively organizing community groups
around software and hardware development. There have been some growing
pains as the groups want to scale faster than I can support. I
received an email from PariSoma earlier this week responding to the
call for spaces on the ARDevMob meetup group. I came out to the space
to take a look today.

I'm really pleased with what I found. The space is beautiful and
completely in line with the vision I have for community research and

I'm planning a G1 night for my Android Group. Many people who bought
the first Android Phone had to deal with a lot of frustration. Mostly
because they didn't work. They were slow, they didn't have all the
menu items you needed, and in a few iterations there were 6 different
volume sliders.

The two year contracts were like a kind of torture, to have to carry a
bricky phone around that never really just worked. I have some friends
who just went with the marketing. Some of us chose it out of a belief

Sunday morning, while watching the winter olympics I was examining Canada using Google maps on my Nexus One. I found an interesting spot and Google didn't have an address. I tapped menu and discovered that there is an option I didn't notice until today.

The mapping application an Android has a labs section. The labs section is for pre beta software to be tested in the real world. There are several projects. I enabled them all and began using them. What I found immediately useful was the measure tool. I use it in the pictures attached to it measure an iceberg.

I'm going to teach a 2 hour workshop/lab on how to do this next
Wednesday 2/24. The workshop is free.

More info here: http://meetup.com/augmentedreality

Sid

Chrome  OS netbooks are not really big news. Google released a list of Chrome OS partners back in July of 09.

I have been a long time user and lover of The OMNI Group's software. They are expert at human interface. Just the thought of using omnigraffle on an iPad magically redeems the device. I fear for the gamble though, I believe building out their applications to be accessed over the web is the move that would bring their tools to everyone.

I spent SuperBowl Weekend working on a little project called
PadGadget. It's a website that uses your web cam to turn any
smartphone into an iPad.

Check it out at http://ardevmob.com/AR/PadGadget/