Tech Stream
Tech Stream 019
26 June 2009
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QR coded jewelry – photo from Flickr by Fluid Forms.
We’re blurring the lines between the virtual and the physical this week in the Tech Stream. We’ll be speaking about augmented reality with Christy Dena, a cross-media researcher and Professor Bruce Thomas from the Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia.
This leads us into a discussion on Quick Response or “QR” Codes which are being used in advertising as well as augmented reality games. Antony McGregor Dey from QMCodes and Mobile Mondays Melbourne will get us up to speed with this new way to link a physical-world object with something in an online or virtual environment.
We’ll also have a report from Connect Asia‘s David Wang on how the Chinese Government is cracking down on pornography online and accusing search engines like Google of disseminating pornographic content within China.
And finally Bajo joins us from Good Game to review the latest Ghostbusters video game.
You can listen to the full Tech Stream program with the MP3 link above or the “Listen Now” link on the right. Feel free to comment on any of these stories or suggest something we can follow up in future programs. You can also subscribe to the podcast too!
netwurker mez
"...just thought i'd draw ur attention 2 the augmentology.com project that's been running since 2008 (may assist in expanding some of the finer theoretical issues u attempted 2 tackle in the show?) http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/about/ chunks, @netwurker..."
Susan Bates
"...It would be great if you 'could' transcribe this so those of us who can't lipread radios could also access this information, but then ... it might not happen, hey! ?? because it is more to do with the mind (as in thinking about attitudes and values)...."
Ryan Egan
"...Hi Susan, I agree it would be great to have the program transcribed but at the moment we have neither the human or financial resources to do that for Tech Stream. But i have forwarded your suggestion to our management team. The opening story on "Augmented Reality" is being used in our Future Tense program this week so it is likely there will be a transcript for that: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/ ..."
Susan Bates
"...thank you Ryan. i really appreciate that you replied, and let me know that some of the info was going to be available in a transcript. that's great!..."
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