iPad 4.0?  I'm ready now!  Gary Hayes sent me the link to his video on YouTube illustrating the augmented reality (AR) experience would be on an iPad-sized screen. It is a great video; it really captures a sense of the potential of AR across a gamut of applications.  After you check out the video, go to Gary's website and read the blog entry  "Where Industry and Academia Fear to Tread – StoryLabs Launch" on the need for storytelling in effective message construction and delivery--and the conundrum of finding someone who knows how to speak "transmedia."  As someone who teaches digital storytelling and emerging technologies, it was exciting to see his take on it.  The world is no longer linear.  Well, it never was, but before it moved slow enough so our inability to see it wasn't such a problem.  Now, it is.  And we have to learn to be nonlinear, multidimensional storytellers.  To do this, we need to become nonlinear thinkers.  This isn't just about storytelling.  … [Read more...]