Wearable Computing

Dr. Dylan Schmorrow, program manager (and thus manager of research funding) for DARPA just hinted that there will be some funding for research in augmented reality for military training becoming available in about six months (esp. ramping up 2006 financial year). No details yet as to whether it’ll be a new Broad Agency Announcement or part of existing long-term funding, but sounds like it’s coming down the pike.

Makes sense — it’s one of the most immediately-promising applications for AR that’s out there.

Over the next two weeks I’ll be blogging from the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality and the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (busy couple weeks!).

I’ve already run into one other blogger here, Kerry Bodine at StyleBorg — she’ll be blogging over the next couple days as well.