Tag Archives: augmented reality

PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: January 18, 2012

By Jacob Smith | Published: January 18, 2012

OpenIdeo is poised to announce the winner of their “restoring vibrancy to cities” crowdsourced challenge, winnowing down an initial list of 331 concepts to a short list of 20 finalists and now to a single winner. YPulse reports on Sesame Street’s new augmented reality app unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. Civic Commons [...]

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Most Exciting Trends in 2012: Mobile, Social, and Local

By Jacob Smith | Published: January 13, 2012

Five trends I’m excited about for 2012: 1) Mobile Everything It’ll all be about mobile in 2012. Smartphone sales continue to grow, and consumers are increasingly shifting from PC-based web activity to using smartphones. Because of the pervasiveness of mobile devices and the growing sophistication of both native and HTML-based apps, many of the tools [...]

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Looking Back at 2011: Augmented Reality, Mobile, and Regional Sustainability Planning

By Jacob Smith | Published: January 10, 2012

Way back in January of 2011, I asked my colleagues here at PlaceMatters what they were most excited about for the new year. Here’s a quick look at how our expectations for 2011 tracked to what the year actually held: Ken was excited about how the rumored addition of a camera on the new iPad [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: January 5, 2012

By Jacob Smith | Published: January 5, 2012

TechCrunch reports on a seriously cool new augmented reality application: instant translation of foreign-language text. It’s not hard to imagine how useful a tool like this might be for community decision-making efforts in mixed language communities. Cooltown Studios describes Popularise, an unusual private sector approach to crowdsourcing development plans. I’m not convinced the “long tail” [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: October 12, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: October 12, 2011

Digital Urban posted a video snippet from last month’s Intel Developer Forum featuring Intel CEO Paul Otellini on an idea that is pretty simple even if the technology and processing chops aren’t: create rich 3D models based on millions of user-generated images. This is basically crowd-sourced 3D modeling and it’s very cool. Digital Urban also [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: September 14, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: September 14, 2011

A very cool engagement strategy: Harry Potter-style map that reveals new areas as you travel thru a museum (h/t to All Points Blog). Digital Urban shows off a cool augmented reality implementation: incorporating 3-D content, overlaid on the iOS video feed, that can be manipulated through user interaction in real time. EngagingCities thinks through hackathons [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: August 19, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: August 19, 2011

EngagingCities reviews IBM’s new city modeling tool, Systems Dynamics for Smarter Cities, concluding that it “offers a very robust model for exploring outcomes and planning beyond immediate and obvious results,” but also noting the importance of a complementary engagement strategy. Rob Goodspeed, also reflecting on the new IBM tool, posted some ruminations on the use [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: August 11, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: August 11, 2011

Between presentations at the White House and the Ford Foundation’s 75th anniversary gala (we’ll blog about both of these soon), tons of amazing projects (we’ve got a team in the New River Valley of rural southwestern Virginia at this very moment), and just the general zaniness of summer we’ve got quite a backlog of great [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: April 19, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: April 19, 2011

FutureGov has a really nice overview of Planning 2.0 concepts and tools (thanks to Engaging Cities for the link). Engaging Cities posted the slide deck from their “What’s Next for Planning Technology” panel at the APA conference, and it’s worth a look if you didn’t make the session. Their ten: text messaging, social media, mobile [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: March 30, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: March 30, 2011

I had a week off because of a few conferences in Washington, D.C. (including the terrific Nonprofit Technology Conference) and then an unplanned week away from the office as a raging wildfire threatened my town (we learned some great lessons about communication, community, and social media – I’ll blog about that separately), but I’m back [...]

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