David Rose on SuperSight

The Informed Life

David Rose is an entrepreneur, MIT lecturer, author, and pioneer in ambient computing. Among other institutions, his work has been featured in MoMA, The New York Times, WIRED, The Economist, and The Daily Show. He’s the author of two books: Enchanted Objects and his latest, SuperSight, which is the subject of our conversation.

Show notes

• David Rose - Enchanted Objects
• David L. Rose - Wikipedia
• David Rose - LinkedIn
• supersight.world
• SuperSight: What Augmented Reality Means for Our Lives, Our Work, and the Way We Imagine the Future by David Rose
• Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology by David Rose
• Home Outside
• Clearwater
• Ambient Orb
• Google Glass - Wikipedia)
• Meta Quest Pro)
• IKEA Place on the App Store
• ARtillery Intelligence
• lululemon Studio and the MIRROR
• CityScope
• Lumen World
• Handheld projector - Wikipedia (pico projectors)
• Find a National Park Service Map - GIS, Cartography & Mapping (U.S. National Park Service)
• Nreal
• Freedom Boat Club
• Candela per square metre - Wikipedia (nit)
• Audi introduces headlights that can project images with its electric SUVs - Electrek
• Fireflies.ai
• inCitu
• Figma
• Miro
• Reality Composer on the App Store
• Adobe Aero
• Sketchfab
• TurboSquid
• Warby Parker
• Beat Saber

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Chapters

1. David Rose on SuperSight (00:00:00)

2. About David (00:01:20)

3. Ambient information (00:02:53)

4. What is SuperSight? (00:05:49)

5. Augmented reality versus virtual reality (00:11:40)

6. Planes of projection (00:14:43)

7. Adding an information layer to the world (00:19:15)

8. Why SuperSight is inevitable (00:22:47)

9. Hazards of SuperSight (00:25:32)

10. SuperSight’s promise for the future (00:28:12)

11. SuperSight and experience design (00:34:55)

12. Closing (00:37:27)