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With AI, the future of augmented reality is in your ears
By Om Malik Dennis Crowley has built his career at the intersection of emerging technologies and human behavior. Twenty years ago, as a 25-year-old inspired...
When the iPhone emerged, he launched Foursquare, riding the convergence of GPS, apps, and our growing comfort with social networks to transform how we interact with places around us. Then it’s adding the capabilities of a smartphone to surface relevant local information as and when a person walks by a location, such as a restaurant, a cocktail bar, or even a street corner. [In the Harry Potter series, the Marauder's Map is a magical document that shows details such as every classroom, hallway, and secret passage from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and at the same time tracks the location of every person in the castle and grounds, including ghosts, using named dots.]
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