Boffswana is at the cutting edge of Augmented Reality applications with some large Fortune 500 clients (or at least their ad agencies).
In this clip they muck around the office tracking and displaying a Blob avatar with Kinect and Unity 3D.
http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=1293#more-1293
For those that guess the above blob link will be something to do with a binary large object, you're wrong and geeky like me.
In my last article, Why SQL Server is a 4-letter word, I discussed acronyms. The term blob is a bacronym. This is an acronym that was constructed after-the-fact to cover up that it really was named after "The Blob that ate Cincinnati." The person who first applied the name Blob to a database object was Jim Starkey. He tells a hilarious Dilbert-ish story about the origins of the term here, and how marketers like acronyms.
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