While intelligent mobile devices now serve as an on the go hub, it will soon serve as a gateway to interact with physical space in a way we have only dreamed of until the last few years.

For those of you who have never heard of augmented reality, it is simply defined as a view of the physical world augmented by digital information. One of my favorite basic examples is the Yelp Monocle view for iPhone

This view uses plots restaurants and bars relative to your location and direction that you are pointing with your iphone camera.

I see augmented reality as the future for delivering real utility to mobile location awareness. We have not even scratched the surface for what the implications will be as we start to digitalize physical space but I am very excited about the opportunities that it will generate for businesses, consumers, and technologists.

Mobile devices today are in-adequate to address the true potential of augmented reality so it will be very exciting to see what vendors take the lead to re-think the human-computer interface and furthermore how it will enable us to expand our capacity to consume location-based information.

I am truly fascinated by this topic, so if you have any cool augmented reality apps or ideas I would love to see them.

Tomorrow I will be presenting a webinar: Google Maps Premier Meets Business Intelligence Dashboards

There you will learn about GMaps Plugin for Xcelsius and see a live demonstration of version 2.0 functionality for the first time.

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This year, I will be participating as a visitor and presenter at InfoSol's Business Intelligence Seminar in Dana Point California. This 4 day seminar on June 6-9th is jam packed with presentations, training, and hands-on sessions. For BusinessObjects and SAP customers, the agenda looks extremely impressive and am excited to not only share my experiences, but also learn some new skills. The package also includes hotel accommodation at the beautiful Ritz Carlton Dana Point, which is the perfect way to kickoff summer!.

I will be presenting two Xcelsius Gurus Sessions on June 7th.

MONDAY 10:45am - 12:00pm
Integrating Geographic Mapping into Xclesius

MONDAY 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Nifty Third Party Xcelsius Components

I hope to see you there!

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Last year, I started down the path in creating a new blog/web site where I would feature new technology advancements in the area of mobile data visualization, specifically with Roambi. Unfortunately there was not enough content contributed by others to continue running the site as a separate entity. In the next few days, I will be porting over all of the existing articles as new posts and will continue to mix in my experiences with Roambi on my blog. Mobile Data Visualization channel.

On March 24th and 25th two of my favorite Xcelsius experts will be conduction the Xcelsius Advanced Developer Workshop in Dallas. This two day workshop will fill up quickly, so if you are looking to take your dashboard development skills to a new level, this is a great opportunity to learn from the best.

Learn how to enhance your data models with advanced Excel functions
• Learn powerful dashboard design and charting techniques
• Learn tricks that will help to optimize the performance of your Xcelsius dashboards
• Gain a solid understanding of XML and XML connectivity in Xcelsius
• Create server-based logins for your Xcelsius dashboards
• Learn how to pass parameters from one Xcelsius dashboard to another
• Learn how create detailed drill-throughs in Xcelsius using encoded URLs
• Learn how to use your Xcelsius dashboards to write back to your server

Learn more and reserve you spot here!