Augmented reality: Better than reality

Surely if u have GPS, it could work out what street ur in and also pull up a list of the shops and so on...? So why would you need to start scanning building to identify where u are?
 
/me wonders if this will improve peoples education or make it worst

e.g.
instead of researching eiffel tower in Paris and learning about its history u could just point one of these at a pic of the eiffel tower and get all this info

I mean are we getting to place where we start relying on gadgets to experience the world I say this firstly to myself as writing this I relayed on my trusty spell checker not to sound like complete idiot I am sure non of u could read this with out that spell checker enabled

does that make me smarter or dumber :(
 
I played around with these things. A lotta novelty factor at the moment.
@Mineer, it doesnt work like that at the moment. Basically uses GPS to find your location then uses the compass to get your orientation, from there it can overlay any information you need. GPA + Compass + Camera

Layars and RobotVision have a neat feature where you can look at different "layers" So if you use a twitter layer, you can effectively see the tweets around you and distance to them. Use the Google layer and you can see whatever is on google maps. Holding the phone horizontally switches it to Map view.

I think it will come into its own when they start incorporating image recognition.
So like you found the landmark, now the AR can tell you signifficant things about certain parts of it by pointing your camera at it. Kinda like a mix of PhotoSynth and AR.

There is also quite a lot of research going into symbolism, where the camera recognises a symbol (Normally a 2D barcode) and overlays an appropriate 3D model (See ARToolkit). That relys on a database.

Another group (I forget the name) is looking into gathering data and building the model from elements on the scene. Like you got a topographic map and a satillite map, it will detect them and apply the height map to the satillite map to render a nice 3D model of the map. Also, you can draw recognised elements and it will anitmate them for you.

Wont be long till someone brings it all together.
 
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SlappY said:
I played around with these things. A lotta novelty factor at the moment.
@Mineer, it doesnt work like that at the moment. Basically uses GPS to find your location then uses the compass to get your orientation, from there it can overlay any information you need. GPA + Compass + Camera

Layars and RobotVision have a neat feature where you can look at different "layers" So if you use a twitter layer, you can effectively see the tweets around you and distance to them. Use the Google layer and you can see whatever is on google maps. Holding the phone horizontally switches it to Map view.

I think it will come into its own when they start incorporating image recognition.
So like you found the landmark, now the AR can tell you signifficant things about certain parts of it by pointing your camera at it. Kinda like a mix of PhotoSynth and AR.

There is also quite a lot of research going into symbolism, where the camera recognises a symbol (Normally a 2D barcode) and overlays an appropriate 3D model (See ARToolkit). That relys on a database.

Another group (I forget the name) is looking into gathering data and building the model from elements on the scene. Like you got a topographic map and a satillite map, it will detect them and apply the height map to the satillite map to render a nice 3D model of the map. Also, you can draw recognised elements and it will anitmate them for you.

Wont be long till someone brings it all together.
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Combine the above and then combine all the (Google this) Star trek like medical devices and build the apps into an eye implant micro supercomputer with ultra high speed wireless internet access. ;)
 
how exciting lol... let me guess, it can even emulate the smell of a braai on a summer's day... better than reality lol
 
mbp said:
how exciting lol... let me guess, it can even emulate the smell of a braai on a summer's day... better than reality lol
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Yep. :D http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0405.html?printable=1

Some more implant ideas...
Ultimately, the Bainbridge-Rothblatt approach can only work with very fast, very high bandwidth BCI neural interfaces, for example based on the next generation of thought-operated videogame controllers, the evolution of the first prototypes that will hit the market in a few months. See for example Emotiv Systems and the coverage of the upcoming Emotiv EPOC neural interface on CNN, Business Week and CNET. The age of open source neurohacking is coming, and we will use all advances in neural interfacing as they become available in order to enhance the power, speed and reliability of Bainridge-Rothblatt personality capture. Some focused research projects will be necessary to develop adaptations targeted at personality capture.

Virsona's AI based technology lets users gradually build a "virtual persona" (Virsona) which learns how to emulate its creator. From the Virsona website: "Virsona has a patent-pending artificial intelligence technology integrated into each Virsona , which enables it to reason, remember and react as if the Virsona were the person it was designed to emulate". There is the possibility that future advances in AI may fire up consciousness in a virsona, which may then be considered as a upload of its creator. "Personal Virsonas take the term 'social media' to an entirely new level by giving people the ability to achieve digital immortality," said Peter Hodge, CEO and co-founder of Virsona. The Virsona PR has been announced to the Extropy list as "Uploading people has started".

Another interesting, slightly longer term approach is based on artificial neurons and memory implants. Chips Coming to a Brain Near You: "Professor Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California, is creating a silicon chip implant that mimics the hippocampus, an area of the brain known for creating memories. If successful, the artificial brain prosthesis could replace its biological counterpart, enabling people who suffer from memory disorders to regain the ability to store new memories... The Berger enterprise is ambitious, aiming to provide a prosthesis for memory. The need is high, because of the prevalence of memory disorder in aging and disease associated with loss of function in the hippocampus... They hope to apply this approach to clinical applications within 10 years. If everything goes well, they anticipate seeing an artificial human hippocampus, potentially usable for a variety of clinical disorders, in 15 years". See also Chapter 19 BRAIN-IMPLANTABLE BIOMIMETIC ELECTRONICS AS NEURAL PROSTHESES TO RESTORE LOST COGNITIVE FUNCTION of Handbook of Neural Engineering (IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering). http://cosmeng.org/index.php/Project_Mindfile
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I saw some future tech show on discovery that took this idea a step further. They say in the future, we will have contact lenses with micro screens built into them, that will cover our entire field of view. Then the augmented reality part comes in, in that as you look at something say a historical site or something, text will come up next to that building and to you it will seem to appear in thin air because it is all on the contact lens. Also, your perception of reality will be changed forever ... like you can watch a movie just staring into nothing and look at someone, and change the clothes they're wearing from your perspective and stuff like that. They are already experimenting with contact lenses with built in micro circuitry.
 
Lightscribe said:
A contact lens is a clever, non invasive way. I would buy that.
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Imagine having your own HUCL (Heads Up Contact Lens) ... that would be awesome ... the days of needing a PC monitor will be gone :P

Then again, think about getting plagued by ads :P
 
It sounds wonderful, but there's going to have to be a lot more investment in high speed wireless/3g/WiMAX infrastructure before anyone can start using this.
 
Lightscribe said:
Yep. :D http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0405.html?printable=1

Some more implant ideas...
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Lol... that first image was disturbing - the one with the leg that has an additional joint further up the femur... :sick:

Getting back to mind control - just saw a gadget for sale in the duty free catalog on Delta airlines that uses brain waves to control a motor that turns a fan to propel a ball... pretty interesting.

Here we go:
http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/06/29/mattel-s-mindflex-taps-brainwaves-to-move-objects/

Mattel make it... Do or do not... there is no try! :D
 
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