Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data

by Charlie Fink, Mark Billinghurst (Contributor), Cathy Hackl (Contributor)

In Convergence author and Forbes columnist Charlie Fink tells the story of Augmented Reality (AR), a new technology that’s already seeping into every smartphone and every workplace. AR’s merger with new 5G and AI technologies will unleash a wave of innovation that will enable wearable, invisible, latency-free and ubiquitous computing. The book uses a kind of mobile AR called “marker AR” to allow readers to use their smartphone to bring pages to life, demonstrating with art and entertainment how the world, and every person, place, and thing, will be painted with data.

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Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Märt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I follow Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality industry (collectively known as XR) daily, yet I loved this inspiring and detail-oriented book about the present and future of XR where “the world will be painted with data". The premise is that as AI, 5G and XR technologies converge in the next 5-10 years, we will wear light glasses (which are just sensors transmitting data to the cloud and getting visuals back) which will surface contextual information to us exactly where we want it in our lives. This, or something close to it, seems inevitable and probably just 5-10 years away.

Each of the 30 chapters is written the by who’s who of the industry, and it speaks volumes about the awesomeness of this book that the author Charlie Fink, an ex entertainment executive who covers XR industry for Forbes and literally knows everyone, was able to assemble such a cast of key people behind Hololens, Magic Leap, Varjo, Unity, etc. If you have any interest in XR industry, read it fast because as Charlie wrote in the foreword (paraphrasing), this book is becoming more outdated with each moment!