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Your Reality Here

Your Reality Here

The smartphone market has reached maturity, and everyone’s wondering what’s next. A look at the most likely candidate for the post-mobile platform, giving reasons why it’s the most likely, and exploring what role the Web will play.

Peter Gasston

July 16, 2018
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  1. I’m going to talk about four things: The post-mobile platform

    The reasons What’s missing The role of the Web
  2. Why XR is the next platform: Because we’re told so

    Because of human nature Because we have the foundation
  3. One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality

    will become part of daily life for billions of people.” —Mark Zuckerberg “
  4. Some of Apple’s moves in XR 2013: Buy PrimeSense 2015:

    Buy Metaio 2016: Buy Flyby 2017: Buy VRVana 2017: Launch ARKit
  5. Spoken language developed so that we could pass on knowledge;

    and written language so that we could record it.
  6. Answering questions you can’t articulate “… A cushion that’s orange

    and brown and beige with a pattern of thick and thin bars and squares.”
  7. Perspectival representation aimed to give viewers the illusion that they

    had been transported into geometrically coherent and psychologically convincing other worlds.” — Margaret Wertheim “
  8. Mixed reality is a display problem, a sensor problem and

    a decision problem.” — Benedict Evans “
  9. We’re going from computers with cameras, that take photos, to

    computers with eyes, that can see.” — Benedict Evans “
  10. Information I’d never have had unless I’d asked whoever I

    was with to describe it to me. Having the ability to do that independently is really quite remarkable.” — Léonie Watson “
  11. Having your hands free to manipulate, hold, touch or help

    while you’re taking a snap… greatly increases the sense of ‘place’ that you get out of it.” — Matthew Panzarino “
  12. “… An intent represents a mapping between what a user

    says and what action should be taken by your software.”
  13. A platform that’s closely integrated with the real world should

    reflect real world values—not just those of Silicon Valley.
  14. In the Renaissance, new concepts of scientific thinking such as

    perspective and space were brought into the public sphere by artists and philosophers.
  15. AR has the ability to re-enable scarcity. Many AR experiences

    will be tied to the location in which you experience it.” — Matt Miesniks “
  16. “… The future of Nike and of sneaker culture is

    to be able to seamlessly blend real-world charm with digital world convenience.”
  17. The biggest thing that’s been missing for the entire last

    decade was our physical embodied space.” — Anjney Midha “
  18. The AR Cloud is a shared [digital] memory of the

    physical world. It’s the single most important software infrastructure in computing.” — Ori Inbar “
  19. How do we stop massive platforms dominating the AR Cloud

    in the same way they dominate the Web?
  20. 51.523155, -0.085156 35.0 false //londonwebstandards.org Mixed Reality Service (MRS) adds

    a missing metadata layer to the real world, adding links in space.
  21. What the WebXR Device API does Discovers compatible devices Begins

    an XR session Runs a 60fps loop github.com/immersive-web
  22. How to experiment with XR on the Web now AR.js,

    three.ar.js WebXR XR on the Web
  23. The limitations are less about technical constraints, and more in

    our ability to conceptualise, structure and prioritise the aspects of the world we want to build.” — Keiichi Matsuda “
  24. We expect Stories are on track to overtake posts in

    Feed as the most common way that people share across all social apps.” — Mark Zuckerberg “
  25. Our current idea of what qualifies as a site, and

    the value (or lack thereof) that this implies, may be holding the web back.” — Stephanie Rieger “
  26. There’s a disconnect between the Web we have — which is largely

    text — and the Web we need, which is richly visualised. “
  27. Our world is not text, and the Web, as it

    becomes more a part of this world, must become more like the world.” — Mark Pesce “
  28. “… We use ‘X’ not as part of an acronym

    but as an algebraic variable to indicate ‘Your Reality Here’.”