Augmented Reality
Is this the future look of augmented reality?
I have this vision of nerds everywhere staggering around the city with big slates in front of their faces only seeing the world through shared web tablet camera experiences. I’m guilty of looking something like this in public myself, even hoisting a tablet onto my shoulder boombox-style to make skype calls. And that’s a part [...]
Augmented surveilance getting closer to reality
This week Toronto police proudly announced they would be using face recognition software to identify and catch G20 hooligans. In Tokyo this week, a company announced of new billboards that use cameras to recognize age/sex of passers by and serve-up demographically targeted advertisements. Having networked cameras passively watch us as we move through public spaces [...]
Come discuss AR with me @ York Mobile Media Lab
Date: Monday Dec 7, 2009 Time: 3:00-5:00 pm Where: Mobile Media Lab, York University Technology Enhanced Learning Building 88 the Pond Road, Room Tel 2001 Link: Thomas Purves talk at Mobile Media Lab Who knew that since I gave my first Augmented Reality talk back in April of this year that AR would become such [...]
Presentation: Design for an Augment Reality world
For posterity here is the slideshare version of my Augmented Reality talk, which I presented for the first time at Refresh Events in Toronto. As a first cut, this presentation represented more of a shotgun scattershot rather than a linearly coherent narrative of the various thoughts on this topic currently spinning in my head my [...]
Come hear me talk augmented reality on April 20th
The nice folks at refreshevents.ca have asked me to take part in their speaker series at their April event (20th of April at the CSI in Toronto). Here’s what I’ll be talking about: Tom Purves, “How ‘Augmented Reality’ and the Mobile Web Changes Everything” Mobile broadband access and ever-smarter phones are shaking the internet out [...]
How the mobile web and “augmented reality” changes retail forever
At South by southwest interactive this week (SXSW) a huge theme was “augmented reality” the idea of, Amazon-app style, pointing your phone at any product to get more information -or a better price- online. We’re getting to a world where holding a mobile device means all of the potential knowledge and intelligence of the cloud [...]
This is an electric fish
Electric fish is pretty awesome. This is an electric fish I met yesterday at the zoo. But I don’t know his name. Electric fish “see” by pulsing an electric current through the water and then somehow watching and parsing the variations in the electric field as it’s reflected back at them. Sharks too, and other [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology executive specializing digital payment systems, a futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of 
