Nicolai Wadstrom on Tech & Entrepreneurship

Cheap or free phone calls has been the promise of VoIP for some time now, but the most exciting thing about VoIP is not cheap calls, it is the new types of voice services made possible. Cheap or free calls is just the effect of emerging service providers taking advantage of the flat cost of operating telephony (which has been a fact for quite some time before the VoIP boom). The more commodity standards and infrastructure has made it possible for new service provider to cheaply establish themselves in the market.

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In 2006 there was a lot of talk about virtualization, although it has been for around for quite some time. I think that during 2007 a lot of the promise of Virtualization in the desktop and server space will be realized and we will start to see widespread use of it. The attention on virtualisation during 2006 I think this is due to:

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It seems there are a lot of things happening with Augmented reality beyond the high-end expensive applications that I saw 10 years ago (that required € 0.5 - 1.5 M in hardware alone), and now standard PC’s and graphics card are powerful enough to run these applications (that make use of real-time video stream compositing and 3D overlay), and we will probably see a whole number of new interesting applications in this area during 2007.

Here is one example I found on YouTube.