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My HTC magic phone had an OTA update today from Android 1.5 to 1.6 I have only had the phone for less than a week and it obviously had the older version of Android installed when I got it. I did try to force an update but no luck, then asked the friendly people at Vodafone to look in to it, the update come automatically today. It downloaded over 3G. Why? I don’t know The Wi Fi was on and it would have been my preferred way to download but no big deal.

I downloaded Google Goggles and started to play with visual search. It is impressive, I know it is only the beginning but still I can’t help but marvel at it all. I took a photo of my camera and in Google search it picked it 100% right. The barcode scanner also works well, even my tiny qr code on my Skype contact list scans in perfect, then with a tap on the screen the details are in “my contacts” just wonderful. GPS, Maps, Google Latitude, Gmail, Picasa and the rest all perform just like on my PC. Now I want to take some of the 3D homes we built in Opensim and place them on vacant lots of land, show them on the phone camera via a marker or GPS position, merge them in to the picture as some form of AR ? This might be possible with some help from 3DI in the browser plugin anyone have some ideas please ?? I think an interesting and fun way to demo new ideas in home designs, town planning and wot not……

OpenSim in the Cloud?

On the Horizon is this cloud and it is getting larger, is it a storm cloud or will it as the day progresses turn out to be a fluffy white summer’s day cloud?

How will The Google Chrome OS affect this cloud?

I look at what is my workstation today, my view is one laptop and two tower’s one acting as a server and my N95 phone. My view in a few years from now will change. My workstation will be less cluttered more and more of my work will be done on  smaller and more mobile devices.

Will this be the end of the pc as we now know it?

What about a photorealistic view of 3D environment’s the Nvidia’s Reality Server 3.0 will help to do just that. Running OpenSimulator on a Reality Server sounds like a good idea why not do all the crunching and hard work in the cloud and display it all in the browser (viewer 3DI?).

Building with prims somehow pardon the pun feels a bit primitive but how do we make new designs without first building them? Recreating existing objects is one thing but new design and future buildings needs to be created in some way. As it stands right now I am very comfortable to do that in opensim for me it works well.

Building and designing in the cloud could be done with an extension, add on in the viewer like a builders tool no need for everyone to carry a toolbox.

If most if not all crunching is done in the cloud augmented reality looks like an amazing world where we could interact with objects and complex buildings on the hop. I cast my eye outside it is early in the morning a clear sky, again a hot day but wait there is a small cloud on the horizon

Have a good day all……..