Smartphones - Converging Real-time Media and Augmented Space

First test on Live Feeds overlaid on Augmented Reality Applications (Acrossair) on an iPhone 3GS (not mine). Excuse the amateur quality and background noise. Do not make the same mistake of rushing and signing up for an iPhone 3G they can only display on a flat map layout.

Live feed information from both private and social media are uploaded and continually updated with geographic co-ordinates. The video shows instant information on live shows occurring today and also a collection of Panoramio photos that detemines the most popular locations for photo shoots (imagine yourself as a tourist attempting to instantly locate the most scenic location for a memorable photo opportunity).

The program has limited capabilities of displaying live twitter feeds, not to mention the lack of twitter users in Sydney. If we could imagine for a second that twitter feeds can be labelled and filtered according to keywords (location, activity, feelings, hours old the tweet) and updated on Augmented Geo-locations, could they reveal hidden, momentary, spots of activities which we may not have considered before?

Looks like TwittARound and flutter are likely contenders for these kind of possibilities..

Above: TwittARound augmented reality social networking browser.

Above: flutter - social media mapper

Social Media and Urban Representation

How can we visualize the spontaneous and the instantaneous in contemporary urban experience? What can we disseminate from the effects of wireless technologies and personal networks in urban cognition? How can we understand urban places that is shifted from geometric industrial models to personal social modes of values?

The ability to broadcast to a global audience is now available to private individuals at minimal costs. New forms of Social Media (Web 2.0) opens up new avenues for the metamorphic representation of city places. User broadcast information exists in a live form, and can be capable of instantaneous responses and spontaneous updates.

A simple web crawling exercise through these media will reveal hidden niches in an urban context. Doing a twitter search on your destination will reveal more lively activities occurring within the hour in the more unrecognizable places in the city. Instead of relying on fixed features in the city, portable devices can transmit and project destinations directly and calculate your travel. These time-based, feature maps could turn out to present a more accurate and continually updated representation of place in the city, compared to the generalised color blots on a brochure map or a council plan.

See below interactive flash clip for a brief summary. More on the topic of Augmented Space next.

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