Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, 2nd Edition

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Preface

In the early 1990s, I was a member of the coordinating committee that put together

the rst conference on wearable computers, which, interestingly, was followed by

a highly publicized wearable computer fashion show. Speaking at the conference,

Irecall making the following comment about wearable computers: “Are we wearing

them, or are they wearing us?” At the time, I was thinking that eventually advances

in prosthetics, sensors, and articial intelligence would result in computational tools

that would have amazing consequences for humanity. Developments sincethen have

proven that vision correct. The rst edition of Fundamentals of ...