The Birth of Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality










DEG (Digital Eye Glass) combines Nature with Technology.
Wednesday 2015 November 18
Steve Mann, Chief Scientist, Meta; Ryan Janzen, Kyle, Max, Ken, ...

Transparent Technology



RCA906 CRT Pictures courtesy of Neil Heckt, who passed away on August 19, 2015. May we all remember Neil for his great service to the community, his natural curiosity in regards to all things electrical, and as a great educator through web-based media.

Standing Waves


Wikimedia Commons.

Now let me tell you about something different ==
let us call this new thing a "sitting wave".

Standing and Sitting Wave Comparison

PHENOMENAugmented Reality (ΦAR)

Visualizing audio using abakography

Sensing Sensing using feedback; Steve Mann, 1985

Abakographic visualization of radio waves (standing waves, RADAR)

Pעpe™Information Conduits

Abakography אבקוגרפי

Pעpe™Information Conduits

Pעpes™ you can walk in: Wayfinding+Gaming

Spacetime continuum



Abakographic Principle invented by S. Mann

Modular photographic lighting, artistic lighting, and data visualization system.
Wearable Computing...

AR Vision: WearCam + WearComp + WearDisp



Crazy idea... 35 years ago...
Now a $241 billion industry!...
Nicholas Negroponte, Director of MIT Media Lab:

Early 1990s TV broadcast; Founding of MIT Wearable Computing Project
Wearable Computing with Wearable Cameras
Crazy idea... 35 years ago;

"Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone deemed to be on the lunatic fringe, but who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline."

--Nicholas Negroponte, Bangor Daily News - Sep 26, 1997.
--Nicholas Negroponte, Toroto Star, 2001 Jul. 8, 02:32 EDT, Page D3, `Wearable computer' pioneer Steve Mann keeps one eye locked on the future, by Eric Shinn

Now a $241 billion industry!...

HDR Video
35 years of Digital Eye Glass

MannGlass 1978 and GOOGlass 2013
Both of these are Generation-1 DEG
MannGlass 1998 (15 years ago):
Nature (human) and Technology (computer) combined!


Thin strip of metal wraps around the head;
No hinges: 1-piece construction.
Gen-4 Glass (Laser EyeTap)
Sleek slender metal frame, in one continuous piece
45-degree glass
Fiber optics
Not foldable
Completed 1998


Implantable camera system


Canadian Patent 2313693, filed 2000, July 19 by S. Mann
IMPLANTABLE CAMERA SYSTEM,
SYSTEME DE CAMERA IMPLANTABLE
Implantable camera system:
Vision system for the blind
and partially sighted.
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Recent collaboration with filmmakers:
•Denys Desjardins ("My Eye for a Camera"), National Film Board of Canada; and
•Rob Spence
Mind-controlled illumination... EEG to DMX512 lighting... leading to interactive art installation... Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls

Art Installation at Vancouver Olympics 2010


Muse, available at Best Buy stores all across North America

Neckworn camera with fisheye lens and sensors:


Gesture recognition, autogesture, augmediated reality
Priveillance™: Privacy and Veillance (Sur AND Sousveillance)


Surveillance is the veillance of hypocrisy.

Sousveillance (the opposite of surveillance) is the veillance of ???

The opposite of hypocrisy is integrity.
[Lucaites, Condit, and Caudill, 1999, p92]
In this sense, surveillance often lacks integrity, and this lack of integrity invites corruption.

Centralized data storage leads to corruption; Compare with Yatim
See http://wearcam.org/integrity.htm, and scroll down to "Principles, Tenets of Integrity".

Veillance Foundation: Decriminalizing Integrity in the age of hypocrisy
"Daddy, why do cars and buildings ALWAYS have the right to wear cameras, but people sometimes don't?" -- Stephanie, Age 7, in response to her father being physically assaulted at a McDonalds in Paris, France for wearing a computerized seeing aid.
Conclusions:

There's no integrity without undersight (sousveillance)

Phenomenaugmented Reality
S.W.I.M. (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine), Mann 1974
Metasensing




Three axes: from Bits, Atoms, and Genes ...
... to Physical Sci, Comp. Sci., and Soc. Sci.
Merging of the 3 worlds: IoT (surveillance); Wearables (sousveillance); AR.