David Rose - Supersight: What Augmented Reality Means for Our Lives, Our Work, and the Way We Imagine the Future

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Were on the cusp of a step forward in our evolution as a species, and in SuperSight, David Rose provides a time-machine trip into the near future, where knowing more about anything is as simple as glancing at it.

MIT Media Lab professor and head of the Fluid Interfaces group

SuperSight gives us super insight into the new world of spatial, wearable, ubiquitous computing and its economic and social implications. And youve got to love an AR-enabled book. Like the future of humans, its augmented!

Charlie Fink, technology columnist for Forbes

Extended reality is poised to reinvent our human experience with technology, and SuperSight is an enlightening guide to the changes ahead.

Paul Daugherty, CTO at Accenture

David Rose has a wonderful way of making emerging technologies relatable and understandable. He gives insight into the layered future world that we are clearly headed towards. Supersight gives us a chance to proactively anticipate and prepare for the exciting new world of AI.

Jordan Goldstein, Global Director of Design at Gensler

Weve been seeing augmented reality pop up in sci-fi movies for decades, from Robocop to Minority Report to Iron Man. But in this book, David Rose shares his clear and lively vision for how AR is actually going to change cities, business, and our brains. SuperSight is a must-read if you want to navigate augmented realitys transition from science fiction to a widely used technology.

Scott Kirsner, CEO of Innovation Leader and technology columnist for The Boston Globe

SuperSight is an elegant, informative, and thoughtful exploration of a future where our digital and spatial worlds merge seamlessly. We can never be certain about the future, but with foresight comes better preparedness. A delightful read.

Jit Kee Chin, Chief Data and Innovation Officer at Suffolk

A truly forward-looking book describing a new world in which the physical converges seamlessly with the ever-present digitalvia personal, daily-wear smart glasses. Such AR glasses will require very innovative technologies, new modes of applications, and new human cognitive interaction. The opportunities and challenges here are both enormous. David Rose has leaped forward to provide us a good peek into such a future.

Dr. John C. C. Fan, CEO of Kopin

Drawing on his rich experience as a researcher and entrepreneur in spatial computing, David Rose paints a very clear and compelling future in everyday language about how AR and smart glasses will affect the lives of everyday peoplein the very near future.

Ori Inbar, founder of Augmented World Expo

David Rose sees the world in a uniquely informative way and communicates that vision crisply and clearly. His career trajectory shows us true leadership in the disciplines of computer science, design and entrepreneurship. All of that knowledge and ability culminates in this book. This is a timely release, as the discipline of computer vision is hitting its stride in the healthcare market but the potential for this technology is very much still unmet. Thus, for anyone who wants a lesson in this important topic or to gain insights from a truly exceptional mind and writer, this is must-read.

Joseph Charles Kvedar, MD, professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School and chair of the board, American Telemedicine Association

We are at a Goldilocks moment in our collective computational history, where a personal computing experience transitions into a shared, spatial, and ubiquitous one. SuperSight is a timely and comprehensive journey into this next chapter of computing.

Valentin Heun, PhD, VP of research at PTC

In the ambitious forward-looking spirit of Kevin Kelleys The Inevitable, David Rose shows us where the arrows of technology are pointing. More importantly, he shows how these capabilities come together by telling stories of the personal, relatable experiences in our future.

Craig Sampson, professor at Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University, and founder of IDEO Chicago

Without a doubt, this book illuminates the future of computing. Computers have shrunk from room-sized mainframes to handheld devices with even more computational power. The next stage in this evolution is augmented smart glasses that fuse the digital world to the real one. Read SuperSight to understand what this shift will mean for the future of work and collaboration.

Paul Travers, president and CEO of Vuzix Corporation

Fascinating and timely. David Roses first book, Enchanted Objects, showed us how smart everyday objects can change our lives. In SuperSight, he shows how augmented reality will radically alter the way we interactnot only with each other, but with the entire world around us.

Hari Nair, consumer packaged goods innovation leader

SuperSight gives us a critical, thought-provoking, and palpable view of the future of our reality. Rose blurs and refocuses the boundary between what is real and what is augmented, providing a guide to living in the inevitable simulacrum. This is essential reading for the next generation of changemakers.

Hani Asfour, dean at Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation

When you think of AR as your own personal genie or athletics coach perched tightly on the edge of your eyelashes guiding you exuberantly into the future as David Rose does in SuperSight, the world looks much more exciting.

Gilad Rosenzweig, head of MIT DesignX

David Rose has a huge gift for sketching futuristic possibilities that will be upon us before we know it. The opening vision of SuperSight is breathtaking! And quite scary. Designers will be inspired by the new possibilities. To capture those possibilities, business leaders and policy planners should read this book to start figuring out how to guide SuperSight in a societally thoughtful way.

Frank Gillett, veteran analyst at Forrester

In his insightful new book SuperSight, David Rose gives us a visionarys look into the compelling possibilities (and potential pitfalls) of augmenting human capabilities by further superimposing our physical and digital worlds. This next wave of technology has the potential to transform how we interact with each other and with the environments around us, and to create exciting new opportunities for design.

Ari Adler, Executive Director at IDEO

SuperSight is a monumental invention, both promising and perilous for society.

Joyce Sidopoulos, cofounder and vice president of Programs & Community at MassRobotics

The world is about to changeagainand the impact will be larger than even the smartphone revolution. David Rose describes this next great wave of highly personal computing from his perspective as a front-line innovator and entrepreneur. SuperSight is an excellent guide to the many opportunities and hazards that await us.

Jason McDowall, Creator and Host of the AR Show podcast and VP at Ostendo Technologies

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