FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
Please do a summary of the article and the video you linked.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
This video could also be titled: "The life of a Hipster: 2020 Edition"
Gunpla is amazing!
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Done.
Yeah, it honestly felt like a hipster apple commercial.
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Heh. Yeah, that thing did remind me of 4th edition Shadowrun. Seems like SR got it backwards: We will have AR way before Virtual Reality *
Well, that or Garrus' visor. This is basically the same thing
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But Octo, in the future, we all see the world in Hipstervision!
WE'RE DOOMED!!
Seconded on the Garrus visor thing though. Would be kickass to have a rangefinder, altitude, and wind speed calculator in my sunglasses when I go shooting.
edited 6th Apr '12 1:11:48 AM by Barkey
Gunpla is amazing!
Well helicopter pilots already have such technology.
Apparently it takes some getting used to.
scratching at .8, just hopin'
Forget the hipsters. I refuse to put on any piece of tech that will beam advertising right into my eyes. FUCK THAT. I'll get one when ad blockers come out.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Oh yeah, augmented reality ain't more than a decade away. The question is how augmented, and how practical.
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Great, so we get little floaty labels for the benefit of folk who don't know what things are or where they are?
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Moron-vision.
C-E-R-E-A-L
D-O-O-R
T-A-X-I-C-A-wumph
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Not just that, it will speak to you in that stupid computer generated voice- "That is a door"- ooof!
Which leads me to think of a great practical joke for a computer hacker...
edited 6th Apr '12 11:59:13 AM by DeMarquis
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edited 6th Apr '12 11:59:10 AM by inane242
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.
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edited 6th Apr '12 12:33:53 PM by Psyclone
When I heard the news of this, the first thing I thought of was Dennou Coil.
As to the privacy, I don't think that is going be a major problem. From what I understood it would simply be an extension of the Android Platform, and Android already gives you very good privacy options. It would probably still be functional if your location wasn't being broadcast.
Also, I'm really curious about which direction they take this in. Functionality vs Novelty, or Work-oriented vs Play-oriented.
edited 8th Apr '12 7:45:11 PM by pokedude10
Is that cake frosting?
Augmented reality has been around for a while now. This could make it more convenient, perhaps; but I'm not sure that it is that huge a change from the hand-held devices which are pretty commonplace nowadays.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Yeah, I'd have to agree, it's been around but it's not easy to use or do anything with. Until it's simply augmented on top of your vision (and hopefully in some highly non-invasive way because eventually I'll be old and distrustful of new tech) and you just do and see everything.
Billboards that rotate through ads via the internet. Houses painted by whatever decal you wanted. Cars with extra fancy designs. Cats everywhere. Gay porn pop ups.
Is that cake frosting?
They could have some fun applications, though.
For example, one that comes to my mind is larping. What if players could see the spells cast by the mage characters? What if the glasses could superimpose, in some semi-realistic way, over the players the characters/monsters that they represent?
That could be a whole lot of fun — even a very primitive implementation would add much to the immersion, I think.
edited 10th Apr '12 1:33:49 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/apr/05/google
My vision is augmented.
So google released a concept video of an Augmented Reality glasses called Project Glass, in it they show from the first person perspective of a guy going through his day, including looking at the weather on the HUD, finding out the subway to his destination was out of order, "texting" his friend with his voice, taking pictures, and having a video conversation with his girlfriend as he admires a view.
The article simply explains what happened in the video, google expressing its desire to share ideas with people, and comments people made on the youtube page and how they feel it may be intrusive and creepy.
This may be our first ever portray into AR for the public (fighter jet pilots have something similar) But it seems people are worried that this will be the death of all privacy in our lives (despite the fact you can take them off....) and 1984 and all that stuff.
To me it just looks like a hands free smartphone HUD...Felt like an apple commercial really.
edited 5th Apr '12 5:16:29 PM by Thorn14