And Now for Something Completely Different

(I've been looking for a chance to use that Monty Python line for a title...)

While the point of the blog is to highlight fully-realized examples of really new media, it's also a good idea to highlight those that aren't so fully realized, if for no other reason than they have a great potential as yet to be figured out or realized.

One is augmented reality using Bing maps. Blaise Aguera y Arcas (at this time, at Microsoft of all places, but who knows where he may be now) did a TED talk last year on this project. Imagine Google Maps and Google Earth integrated with video, and that almost captures what this is all about.

A second is laser tagging--as in, instead of using cans of spray paint and getting arrested for vandalism, using digital mapping and a pen laser to draw.  Our friends at the Graffiti Research lab have it all worked out.

When measured up against "really new media," these are, of course, incomplete. But that means they and others like them are ripe for thoughtful creative development.