http://programmerjoe.com Joe Ludwig's blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:54:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At TED 2010 Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft demoed live integration of video into the existing structure-from-motion dataset in Photosynth. Though his demo showed a video feed moving around a scene the same data could just as easily be turned around to find the precise position of the camera in real-time. ... http://programmerjoe.com/2010/03/13/obvious-idea-1-openstreetmap-for-images/ The 2010 LOGIN conference is accepting session proposals for just 11 more days.  January 25 is the last day to submit something, so hurry up and get your talk proposal sent in! http://programmerjoe.com/2010/01/14/11-days-left-to-submit-your-login-session-proposal/ This rounds out my trilogy of year end posts. Here is what I think will happen in the coming year. I would love to hear your thoughts on these predictions: Star Trek Online will be the only significant MMO launch in 2010. It will do well enough to make Atari and ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/12/31/2010/ Around this time of year for the past few years I have written a blog post listing what I expected to occur during the coming year. Since this new year marks the start of a new decade, I thought I would start a new tradition and write a post on ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/12/25/the-twenty-teens/ Year end prediction posts are tons of fun.  Let's see how I did with last year's post. Correct. Champions and Free Realms both launched. Those were both smaller than the big launches of 2008 (Age of Conan and Warhammer), and I expect they will end up being smaller than next year's ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/12/23/how-did-i-do-with-my-2009-predictions/ The good thing about going to your first conference on a new subject matter is that you're not jaded and certainly not level capped. So without further ado, here are fifty things I learned at ISMAR: Metaio is pronounced mehtayo, not (as I've been saying) mehtah-ayo. The high-end HMDs that academics buy ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/10/25/50-things-i-learned-at-ismar-2009/ Korea is the future. They are five years ahead of us and where Korea goes, the rest of the world will follow.  (I have been hearing this for at least five years. ) Free to play with micro transactions is the one true business model. Client downloads are death. We must look beyond ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/09/20/50things/ When SPRX Mobile announced that they were opening up the Layar API back in July, I applied immediately. I wanted to learn more about publishing geo-coded data, keep abreast of what Layar was up to, and try to deliver some useful data all at the same time. Fortunately my application ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/08/27/my-layar-development-experience/ If you search for "augmented reality" in Google, most of the hits will involve systems that analyze the output of a video stream in order to figure out what to draw in the overlay and where to draw it.  Sometimes the what and where are answered by the same marker ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/08/02/cameras-vs-sensors/ The other day Craig Mundie, head of Microsoft Research, said "There will be a successor to the desktop; it will be the room." I think things are headed in exactly the opposite direction. Everything that has happened with computing and telephony in the last fifteen years has pointed away from engaging ... http://programmerjoe.com/2009/07/16/microsoft-gets-it-exactly-wrong/