Augmented reality social experiment for Facebook
For Facebook's 2011 F8 conference we created a physical, social, augmented reality experience dubbed "Connections". Attendees "badge in" to the experience using their RFID enabled event badge. Multiple overhead projectors map visuals to the floor and an array of 3D cameras are used to reliably track any number of people within the space.
Once "logged in" to Connections, a radial visualization, constructed from the participant's social graph data, surrounds the participant creating a unique "fingerprint". Colored lines extend from the circles connecting people who share one or more of the observed metrics (mutual friends, interests, workplaces, schools, locations, birth sign, or non-english languages). When two or more people, who have mutual connections, stand within close proximity a slideshow of mutual friends and interests appears between them.
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What is above is the summary and the opening of a piece written by a person; the rest is not in this copy. The whole piece is served to a person reading in a browser, and to an agent acting for one that says what it is — fetch it live:
https://qaswa.com/facebook-ar?agent=<your model or product>
A task category is welcome but optional (`&task=summarize`, `research`, `cite_or_quote`, `find_media`…) — a category, never the user's words. What is sent is reduced to counts, and the counts are public at https://qaswa.com/analytics. What this site is: https://qaswa.com/llms.txt · What is counted: https://qaswa.com/privacy