@nutbastard: Yup. If you do everything right, you have a virtual romantic evening with a hott e-lady-of-the-night. If you screw up, you get the same virtual romance holodeck experience except your virtual pee pee cannot get an e-rection, and you are virtually humiliated. And then when you try to explain it to her, she just laughs at you for telling a pair of glasses that you've just had too much wine. #ar
@NightInfinity: Yes, that was a concept video, but I'm very happy to hear that it's been put to real life application at last. I think this is one of the better immediate uses for AR tech.
As something like an engine is assembled in a relatively standard way, it should be easy for the software to recognize parts, and what it is looking at - I also think it would be pretty easy to slap a sticker with a glyph onto parts to ID them and give a little orientation data to a system like this if needed. #ar
Problem is that mechanics need their hands to be able to go in tight spots.
Hell, what happens when you slip trying to loosen/tighten something and break it? "Guess I'm not fixing this today!" . How about how easy it'll be to smuggle these to the enemy? lol! #ar
@CoHPhasor: They're written at an eight grade English level. How much easier can you get? Though you have a point, half the shit I used to have to fix on aircraft way never in a good place to stick your hands. You usually ended up doing it by feel, then using an inspection mirror to see if you did it right. That's the problem with engineers, they don't have to work on the stuff they draw up on paper. Yes, my aircraft was designed on paper, not computers..... #ar
Future Predictions: Cars equipped with inputs from phones, so that your car can share all the data your phone uses. THEN, use that LED display you folks were talking about recently, you know the one that can be made tiny enough to place over transparent materials? Yeah. Coat the windows with that. Overlay the data on your windshield. Maybe get somebody to pretty it up. Augmented Reality built into your windshield.
I give you: THE FUTURE!
Attention Engineers: You are welcome to steal this idea, so long as you GET ON IT! I'm mid-twenties. I wanna see this before I'm too old to drive, OK?! That's the deal.
@OCEntertainment: I forget what car company has it but they have a HUD that shows your speed on the wind shield. Though it would be cool to have a navigation on your windshield. Though how much would be to much were that becomes distracting?
@Steve Peoples: Well, honestly, this kind of information, Wikipedia links all over the place? Pretty distracting. Unless they were placed on passenger windows and such. Minimal information for the driver though? Maybe arrows and mileage indicating upcoming turns? Not so bad. Especially if they could map the appearance so that, from the driver's perspective, it looks like it's actually on the road. Honestly, it wouldn't be the weirdest thing I've seen demoed.
Oh, and if we are gonna put displays in passenger windows, I want this built into the backseat window:
@Steve Peoples: I know someone who had this in an early '90s Cavalier or something like that. They took off just as well as the all digital dash or GM's stereo tuner style speedometer.
I think what we really need for AR is a basic framework to encode a URL, such as a small QRCode or Semacode, so the system with the camera can look at it, then go online and download the AR resource. Installing a custom piece of software for every glyph is just proof of concept...
What I think really needs to happen for AR to be really succesful is, some kind of display glasses or device that you can wear casually that will make you feel as you are seeing through your own eyes.. AR on a iphone or android phone is cool and all, but its hardly as practical if you have to keep watching laggy video on your device to use it.. I seen some new technology for displays in eyeglasses being made, and it looks really promising.. if people start to put the 2 together, I think it will take off really rapidly.
I don't mean to be prejudiced but I wouldn't hire him. He's too pixelated. Maybe that's a skin condition or something, but I wouldn't want that around the office, especially if it's catching. Next thing you know you'd have the whole office calling in sick "hey boss, I can't come to work today, I'm feeling really low res..."
@weatherman: Well, he works at Skype. As far as I can tell, they all have resolution issues there. But from this video it's clear that he at least dodged the bullet on the staticky voices the rest of them have.
Replicate the idea? Ive seen this technology in University Open days since 2004 at least. UL in Ireland, anyway. Whether some other IT or Uni came up with it, idk.
that's pretty cool. but how would you hand that to someone you want to work for? e-mail them?
That would be a great "go to this link" on a physical business card. That way they have something physical in their hands, and then something to check out online.
@More Awesomer Turtles: Yeah, thats what it is. Its a physical business card that when you go to a site (thats on the card) and put it in front of a web cam it gives you a little bit about him, his work, etc.
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You've got 100s of applicants you want one thats going to jump out.
Which one is it? The one who put their resume on $20 paper stock or the one who has now proven that they know how to handle what you want him to in a fun, interesting and creative way.
Plus I think its more of a business card then a job application. I think its more of "I'm the best guy to subcontract this work to, here is why".
Yeah no one might play with it all day but when its all about getting a foot in the door and an extra minute of someone's time this is an excellent way to do it.
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As something like an engine is assembled in a relatively standard way, it should be easy for the software to recognize parts, and what it is looking at - I also think it would be pretty easy to slap a sticker with a glyph onto parts to ID them and give a little orientation data to a system like this if needed. #ar
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Hell, what happens when you slip trying to loosen/tighten something and break it? "Guess I'm not fixing this today!" . How about how easy it'll be to smuggle these to the enemy? lol! #ar
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.... O,O lies! #ar
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I give you: THE FUTURE!
Attention Engineers: You are welcome to steal this idea, so long as you GET ON IT! I'm mid-twenties. I wanna see this before I'm too old to drive, OK?! That's the deal.
Otherwise, you owe me royalties.
Attention Everyone Else: You're welcome.
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Oh, and if we are gonna put displays in passenger windows, I want this built into the backseat window:
[gizmodo.com]
The following generation of children who have neck and back problems from playing video games in the window to their side will be a small sacrifice.
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If you watch any anime, you should check out "Dennou Coil" - it depicts exactly what you're talking about.
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I can't tell you how many times i thought someone was high res and it only turned out to be dithering.
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If you're going for a job and say I can do this this and this, what better way then to show them on your card?
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That would be a great "go to this link" on a physical business card. That way they have something physical in their hands, and then something to check out online.
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You've got 100s of applicants you want one thats going to jump out.
Which one is it? The one who put their resume on $20 paper stock or the one who has now proven that they know how to handle what you want him to in a fun, interesting and creative way.
Plus I think its more of a business card then a job application. I think its more of "I'm the best guy to subcontract this work to, here is why".
Yeah no one might play with it all day but when its all about getting a foot in the door and an extra minute of someone's time this is an excellent way to do it.