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Kelly, Stephen

Sub Assignment: Bing AR Maps

Please watch the following video:

http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
Mr. Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new a mapping technology from Microsoft.  After watching the video, please answer the following questions:
 
Mr. Aguera y Arcas uses a number of terms in his presentation that may be new to us.  Please review the video, and suggest what he may mean by each of the following words:
  1. augmented reality
  2. telepresence
  3. crowdsourcing
  4. metadata
Please feel free to consult wikipedia and other search technologies to construct your answer, but do not copy and paste.  Cite sources if you use them, and most of all, make sure your answers are based on his actual talk, not just general ideas!
 
Use complete sentences and proper grammar. 
Save responses in a word document in your  'My Documents' folder, with the filename '[lastname] AR Maps'.
 
Additionally, drag and drop it to Mr. Kelly's inbox:
My Computer\maInbox on 'lmtsdvlocker'\skelly\Sub Assignments\AR Maps\

If you finish early, please check out the technology for yourself at:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Last Modified on January 21, 2011