So, Charlie, you know, your book really covers a lot. So I would say it’s the most in-depth book about what’s happening in AR and what the trends are today.Īwesome. I think the first book was 40,000 words this is 90,000 words.
So I’m feeling good about it, people seem to really like the book. You know that’s an award-winning design that Porteramic came up with. We made this book together… although, of course, I had to do that horrible 12 weeks of doing nothing else and sleeping five hours a night in order to ultimately pull it all together with all the pictures the book is beautifully designed. There is a little living pop-ups layered in just because it’s soĬharlie: On the topic of technology, so, it’s great to work with them and all the collaborators. And of course, it’s filled withĪugmentations, as opposed to the first book, which had kind of a funny cartoon GPS and the Internet has essentially created five of the biggest companies in What did it enable? Look at steam: itĮnabled factories, it enabled transportation and railroads in the same way that So convergence is beginning, right? The combustionĮngine is an example of convergence. It’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Googleĭirections – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that If, for example, look at GPS in a phone, right, there would be no Uber, no Moments of sort of platform innovation that launched heretofore unconceived And if you look at history you know there have been a number of But the truth is you know what theĬonvergence. You don’t need to see the weather in front of your eyes spatially,Īlthough it would be fun from time to time. You advertising it has to show you what you want when you want it or where you Otherwise, if it’s interrupting you, Iĭon’t see how that’s possibly a welcome augmentation, right? It can’t be showing Of 5G and AR and artificial intelligence that would manage all of this data for Mirror world became the theme of the book, which is essentially the convergence What the finalįorm factor will be we can debate, but this idea of a magic-verse based on a Thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. Work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same Use a whole lot more useful and interesting than they are today, where we useĪnd as I got into the book and editing the Which suggests a fully-scaleable AR cloud. Originally I was thinking the title would be something like ‘the many modes ofĪR,’ or ‘how the world will be painted with data,’ which is a phrase I coined, The topic of the book kind of evolved because I, you know, Providing augmented scenes and many actually contributing thought leadershipĪnd reporting. Really needed to build a community of about 100 people around the book, many
Normal book and it doesn’t adhere to book economics. It’s printed on premium paper and it’s priced high like a textbook atįifty dollars – of course it’s filled with an hour of animation – so it’s not a Meaning I got enough donations that I could afford to write the book and get it So, I started to think about the idea of doing a new book, and I gotĪ lot of support for it in the community. Particular had been sort of glossed over in the first book, which was largelyĪbout VR. Which sold very well, but it soon became apparent that the AR topic in Well, we were looking at doing a second edition of the first book Maybe you can tell us a littleīit about the book, and why it came to be. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your newīook Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR. You’re amazing and thank you so much for being on Wow, I don’t know if I can live up to an introduction like that. Charlie is leading the way in XR for business by covering and reporting on everything XR-related. Charlie founded and exited to venture-backed startups and has produced over 30 award-winning Broadway musicals. He was an SVP of AOL Studios and president of the American Greetings Interactive. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Charlie is a former Disney, AOL, and AG Interactive executive, famous for coming up with the idea that turned into The Lion King. Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. XR consultant, columnist, speaker, and author, Mr. Today’s guest is one of my good friends and someone I consider a mentor. How will the convergence of 5G and AR and artificial intelligence lead to the creation of experiences that no one’s ever imagined? Join Forbes columnist and author Charlie Fink to find out!Īlan: Hello everybody.
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