Augmented Reality Business Card: I Would Hire Him

@More Awesomer Turtles: You really don't get what this is, do you?

LeeMarvinsPants

@loriensleafs: ahh, theres an edit button now- see that little pencil?

@Sentientv2:
link got cut off...
http://bit.ly/104qrs

Sentientv2

@tande04: Now I'm going to look like a partial tool because I've got an AR business card that's been sitting in my queue for 2.5 months now. Damn responsibilities!!

You can at least take a look at what will ultimately be on my card, albeit a non-animated version, on my blog. Please note the posting date just to reference how long I've been working at it bit by bit.

http://www.burtonposey.com/blog/66/avatar-prototype-demands-you-play-with-i...

Sentientv2

@weatherman:

I can't tell you how many times i thought someone was high res and it only turned out to be dithering.

I don't mean to be prejudiced but I wouldn't hire him. He's too pixelated. Maybe that's a skin condition or something, but I wouldn't want that around the office, especially if it's catching. Next thing you know you'd have the whole office calling in sick "hey boss, I can't come to work today, I'm feeling really low res..."

@loriensleafs: ...they should*

loriensleafs

they use this to augment some reality into some boobs at some point

loriensleafs

@More Awesomer Turtles: Yeah, thats what it is. Its a physical business card that when you go to a site (thats on the card) and put it in front of a web cam it gives you a little bit about him, his work, etc.

tande04

Patrick Bateman is going to feed this guy to an ATM.

Zadillo

Please excuse me. I need to go clean the shit out of my pants and then make a new business card.

@Overheal: Not the augmented reality part, hell thats on Doritos bags. The business card incorporating it part.

If you're going for a job and say I can do this this and this, what better way then to show them on your card?

tande04

Replicate the idea? Ive seen this technology in University Open days since 2004 at least. UL in Ireland, anyway. Whether some other IT or Uni came up with it, idk.

Overheal

that's pretty cool. but how would you hand that to someone you want to work for? e-mail them?

That would be a great "go to this link" on a physical business card. That way they have something physical in their hands, and then something to check out online.

Make that actually happen without being recorded onto video and ya got something!

@weatherman: Imagine how embarrassing it would be if you had to go up to him and say: "Excuse me, but your zipper is down... and you've got a couple of dead pixels."

Christopher Diaz

@fuchikoma: That is a very good idea.

@SlipperySid: I suppose that disproves what I said about the clarity and sound quality of his voice.

jdale

@strider_mt2k: Bravo. I'm am so clapping right now.

Jake712

@jdale: Um, it's Skive not Skype!

SlipperySid

My doritos bag, my latest issue of Parenting magazine, Eye of Judgement, and this guys business card.

What do they all have in common?

saigumi

@anoteoftruth:
If you watch any anime, you should check out "Dennou Coil" - it depicts exactly what you're talking about.

@eXo: It wouldn't work for your average schmo looking for a job. But for the specialized field this guy works in it would be more effective.

rhys1882

oh yay another generic FLAR toolkit implementation

aerolith

@eXo:
You've got 100s of applicants you want one thats going to jump out.
Which one is it? The one who put their resume on $20 paper stock or the one who has now proven that they know how to handle what you want him to in a fun, interesting and creative way.
Plus I think its more of a business card then a job application. I think its more of "I'm the best guy to subcontract this work to, here is why".
Yeah no one might play with it all day but when its all about getting a foot in the door and an extra minute of someone's time this is an excellent way to do it.

tande04 mile island in the sun

I think what we really need for AR is a basic framework to encode a URL, such as a small QRCode or Semacode, so the system with the camera can look at it, then go online and download the AR resource. Installing a custom piece of software for every glyph is just proof of concept...

@YankBoffin: you are exactly right. plus, webcams aren't in the typical business office around here. We have them in our conference rooms and all... but not in our offices. Webcams in offices automatically seem perverse to me.

eXo

@tande04: Not sure many employers would be interested in going to that much trouble.

eXo

@anoteoftruth:

just to add a example.. I'm not talking about bulky vr type glasses.. I mean wearing the same prescription glasses I'm wearing now, but being able to look at a bus stop and see a display of what time the buses arrive and depart etc, and being able to interact with that.

What I think really needs to happen for AR to be really succesful is, some kind of display glasses or device that you can wear casually that will make you feel as you are seeing through your own eyes.. AR on a iphone or android phone is cool and all, but its hardly as practical if you have to keep watching laggy video on your device to use it.. I seen some new technology for displays in eyeglasses being made, and it looks really promising.. if people start to put the 2 together, I think it will take off really rapidly.

@jinushaun: Is there no software to install? You just have your webcam turned on and the website does the rest? If so, awesome. If it takes any more effort than that, then it's a dumb idea for this application. It's hard enough to get your resume more than 5 seconds glance, so who expect a prospective employer to do this much work?

YankBoffin

VizWorld covered this a few days ago ( http://www.vizworld.com/2009/07/james-allibans-augmented-reality-busines.../ ), and covers lots of other augmented reality things as well for anyone interested in that stuff.

Try and find a boss with a webcam in his office....

a blazedshaggy redneck surfer from da south

@More Awesomer Turtles: Simple really. Your business card should have a URL on it for your portfolio. Prospective hiring managers will go to that site, look at your portfolio and notice a call-out telling them their business card works on the site.

@weatherman: Well, he works at Skype. As far as I can tell, they all have resolution issues there. But from this video it's clear that he at least dodged the bullet on the staticky voices the rest of them have.

jdale

Unless I was planning on hiring somebody to produce some terrible looking and completely useless bit of technology or look and sound like a retard in a promotional video, I think I'd pass.

aardvarked

@anoteoftruth:

Yup, you're right. People will want AR to be viewed throught their own eyes, not on a seperate screen. The next step is some sort of glasses/hud combo and then .. i believe.. we will have microchips in our heads that either comupute the information or just project it onto the sensors at the back of our eyes.

If this does ever happen, i will want Ad-Blocker !! AR advertising could get very annoying !