http://www.fastcompany.com/1825516/wallit-augmented-reality-app-graffiti-social-sharing

We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
BY Kit Eaton | 03-20-2012 | 11:15 AM

Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There’s an app for that.

Wallit is a new location-aware app which advertises itself with the tagline “walls for places.” Essentially it lets its users place a digital Post-it note, or an invisible piece of graffiti if you like, on a virtual “wall” connected to a real place on Earth. Despite its newness, it just added a social element to version 1.1 called “super walls” that links the tags for similar places around the world, so you can leave your mark at a local Starbucks and also see what other folks at the 15,000 other Starbucks venues around the world are saying. It’s free, silly, lovable and a taste of the reality-blurring that’s about to become part of our normal existence.

Get Wallit at the App Store
http://wallitapp.com/

With Google’s New Glasses, Your Head Is Your Smartphone
BY Kit Eaton | 04-05-2012 | 2:00 PM
Google’s Glass augmented reality system may be the smartphone (smartspecs?) of the near future, neatly linking our digital lives with our real ones. Is this a good thing?

http://www.fastcompany.com/1829741/your-head-is-your-smart-phone

Also, this story includes this link to Apple’s more recent work on AR glasses…
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2008/04/apple-preparing-a-cool-ipod-visual-head-display-system.html

April 4, 2012
A Rose-Colored View May Come Standard
By NICK BILTON
SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Wednesday offered a look at a previously secret project to develop Internet-connected glasses, staking out a lead position in a futuristic and fast-growing area known as wearable computing.

Reminds me of this historic document from my Apple team, inspired by Mike Liebhold who is interviewed below
http://web.archive.org/web/20101127183743/http://worldboard.org/pub/spohrer/wbconcept/default.html

See section 9:
“WorldBoard Scenario 5: Buying a House
real estate agent: Well it doesn’t look like much now, but wait until you see what it could be. Here try on these “Rose Colored Glasses” to see the WorldBoard view. ”

And the update we did when I arrived at IBM called “Information in Places”
http://www.mendeley.com/research/information-in-places/

From IBM Systems Journal special issue on Pervasive Computing in 1999…
http://domino.research.ibm.com/tchjr/journalindex.nsf/9fe6a820aae67ad785256547004d8af0/7289bccceaf404c885256bfa00685d93!OpenDocument

Last night we released version 0.75 of the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) at http://www.sebokwiki.org/. This is the third release of the SEBOK, a product of dozens of systems engineering experts from around the world.

Version 0.75 primarily (1) adds important new material missing entirely from version 0.5, for example, articles on the relationship between systems engineering and software engineering; (2) improves some of the most immature 0.5 articles, and (3) responds to many comments provided by reviewers of version 0.5. The fundamental structure of the wiki remains unchanged with updates to around half of the articles. The entire wiki will undergo significant update between now and September when version 1.0 will be released.

From reviews of versions 0.25 and 0.5, we have benefited from over 4000 comments, but eagerly welcome more. We encourage all interested parties everywhere to provide review comments through April 15, 2012. Please look at the Note to Reviewer article in the wiki for more information. In addition to review, we encourage you to consider early adoption; i.e., we hope you find the articles a valuable resource.

The SEBoK has been supported by many organizations. We gratefully acknowledge them, most importantly, INCOSE, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Systems Council, the Association for Computing Machinery, the National Defense Industrial Association, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the Systems Engineering Research Center. Primary funding was provided by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, with significant contributions in kind coming from the home organizations of the authors. Stevens Institute of Technology and the Naval Postgraduate School, our home campuses, have been very supportive of our labors on this project over the past two and a half years.

We are very proud of this version, but we recognize it still is not fully mature. With your assistance, the SEBoK can evolve to fully meet the needs of our community.

Best wishes,

Art Pyster Dave Olwell Alice Squires Nicole Hutchison Jim Anthony Stephanie Enck Devanandham Henry

I especially recommend the VC panel for those with new venture ideas!