Still doesn’t roll off the tongue – but “AR” and “Business Applications” have a destiny that seems a natural evolution of the “Location Based X” (LBx) environment.  It almost seems like cheating – the ability to correlate information, helpful hints, creative insight, based on where you are and what you are looking at.  Mobile access to all the information you need, the view finder is the new browser, interacting in the thin green line between reality and the virtual world. 

One of the most interesting sessions at CES was one of the most sparsely attended, however it may be critical to your LBX strategy. If you “walked the show floor” it quickly became apparent that almost every device had an Ethernet port or some way of connecting to a network/the Internet. I then walked into a session named the “The Looming Internet Address Space Crisis”. Limor Schafman, President of the IPv6 Forum – Israel led a panel of experts in presenting the issues associated with the transition of IPv4 to IPv6.

The CES show in Las Vegas is clearly one of the most intense gatherings of technology, businesses, and users in any industry. Over 100,000 folks attended sessions, walked the miles of show floor, and heard the latest in technology for the consumer market. We have noted many times that it appears that the consumer market is driving innovation back into the enterprise. While we don’t expect 3D TV to invade the enterprise real soon (maybe the glasses will be an issue), but 3D mapping may well be part of an enterprise’s LBx strategy.

Location intelligence became a key part of the wireless wars in 2009 as Verizon Wireless rolled out the “There’s a Map for that” campaign.