{"id":4668,"date":"2009-09-13T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2009-09-13T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T18:37:17","slug":"video-whats-next-for-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/video-whats-next-for-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Video:  What&#8217;s Next For Mobile, A Discussion on Augmented Reality, Custom Content, and Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HXryqIWmBVM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HXryqIWmBVM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of the best ways to conduct research isn&#8217;t just to go to the field, but centralized the field.  Last week, mobile analyst Michael Gartenberg was in town for Apple&#8217;s new video iPod announcement and there were dozens of others in town for <a href=\"http:\/\/events.gigaom.com\/mobilize\/09\/\">GigaOm&#8217;s Mobilize<\/a> conference, so we organized a Tweetup on Union Square in SF.  The topic?  The future of mobile.    30-40 folks showed up from startups, PR firms, folks from the mobile team at Microsoft and even the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>What will you learn by watching the video?  See how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geovector.com\/\">GeoVector<\/a> is piloting new applications for Augmented Reality. You&#8217;ll hear some exploratory discussions on how augmented reality (see other YouTube videos) can appear in a variety of combinations with the physical and virtual &#8211;beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2009\/04\/03\/first-look-geocaching-2-0-for-iphone-3g\/\">geo caching games<\/a>.  You&#8217;ll hear about how custom content from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offbeatguides.com\/\">Off Beat Guide<\/a> is now on mobile devices like the Amazon Kindle, and some demos of the latest augmented reality applications are quickly appearing on the scene.  We also got a tour of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileburn.com\/news.jsp?Id=6029\">Palm Pre&#8217;s Synergize product<\/a> which syncs and aggregates social graphs into one location. We also took a close look at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/newteevee.com\/2009\/09\/12\/hands-on-ipod-nano-vs-flip-sd\/\">video iPod which could give Cisco&#8217;s Flip Camer<\/a>a (which I used to create this video &#8211;which Cisco gave to me to demo)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the trend?  Convergence. Mobile devices are giving birth to applications that triangulate geo data, compasses, and social data and serve up unique experiences.  Facebook just released a lite version of it&#8217;s site &#8211;in order to meet the needs of the mobile experience around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/homepage\/local_story_256005113.html?keyword=topstory\"> played the new Beatles Rock Band edition<\/a>, it&#8217;s important to note how video game entertainment has both social components and a revival of music made popular decades ago &#8211;although some <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8242749.stm\">musicians worry this detracts<\/a> from people playing real musical instruments.  Expect other genres to appear as this expands to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2009\/02\/snoop-dogg-comi\/\">Hip Hop with Snoop Dogg<\/a>.  We&#8217;ve already seen mobile versions of these games appear, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how mobile device that conncect to each other make these games portable, social, and who knows what. <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned, next month I&#8217;ll have a tweetup around the topic of just mobile social networks like FourSquare, Twitter, BrightKyte, and whatever comes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to conduct research isn&rsquo;t just to go to the field, but centralized the field. Last week, mobile analyst Michael Gartenberg was in town for Apple&rsquo;s new video iPod announcement and there were dozens of others in town for GigaOm&rsquo;s Mobilize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/video-whats-next-for-mobile\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video:  What&#8217;s Next For Mobile, A Discussion on Augmented Reality, Custom Content, and Video Games<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}