Augmented Reality

[call_me_ishmael]

I am coming around to believe that Augmented Reality is going to fundamentally change the world and all of our lives.

What say you?

[mraynrand]

I thought this was going to be a confession.

[hoosier]

Depends. What are you augmenting it with? And what do you augment? Can you augment smells? If you cannot augment my farts then I have absolutely no interest in your latest gadget.

[call_me_ishmael]

The ARKit demos from Apple are blowing my mind, and that's with 1-2 year old mobile phone form factor hardware.

I can only imagine what sort of madness Magic Leap has created with their very expensive hardware.

The world is about to get really crazy and open up a new set of possibilities. Digitally created items in the real world are going to change a lot of things I have a hunch.

https://twitter.com/madewithARKit

[mraynrand]

http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?27827-Enter-The-Matrix&highlight=enter+the+matrix

[call_me_ishmael]

And to think, this is two years old!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAh5ajfBq8

It's easy to see why Magic Leap has I believe raised more money than any company... well, ever.

[Zool]

Depends. What are you augmenting it with? And what do you augment? Can you augment smells? If you cannot augment my farts then I have absolutely no interest in your latest gadget.

https://jet.com/product/detail/4a706122a41f4ce8804f3857c0a003e6?jcmp=pla:ggl:NJ_c ons_Gen_Health_Beauty_a3:Health_Beauty_Personal_Ca re_Deodorants_a3:na:PLA_786070203_37816624501_pla-292643684288:na:na:na:2&code=PLA15&pid=kenshoo_int&c=786070203&is_retargeting=true&clickid=8ccbec08-5cc6-48eb-b58e-3d0069f95143&gclid=COLVh_yC4dQCFZAAaQodjo0Btw

[hoosier]

Not the kind of augment I was thinking of. I wanted something more on the order of an olfactory megaphone.

The more I look at it the more it seems like we've inserted ourselves into an informercial thread for fucking apple. Ishmael, are you getting paid to do this or has it just ingrained itself in your psyche?

[3irty1]

Depends. What are you augmenting it with? And what do you augment? Can you augment smells? If you cannot augment my farts then I have absolutely no interest in your latest gadget.

One dryer sheet in each back pocket. I hereby release this life-app under creative commons.

[hoosier]

That's getting close but, once again, augmentation and masking are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS, people.

[Rutnstrut]

I am coming around to believe that Augmented Reality is going to fundamentally change the world and all of our lives.

What say you?

Every time you type something we can tell you are living in an "augmented reality".

[Joemailman]

Is augmented reality like Fake News?

[Zool]

More like alternative facts

[call_me_ishmael]

Look at the Twitter. Some of the examples are seriously mind bending. Landing a space X rocket at your house? Having miniature men playing hoops? The measuring tape being accurate! How on earth do they do that! Getting scale with a single camera is really hard is my understanding. It's unbelievable!

[hoosier]

Look at Ishmael, he's like a kid out there!

[call_me_ishmael]

These three in particular blew my mind:

http://www.madewitharkit.com/post/162290189933/space-x-falcon-9-landing-arkit-demo-by?utm_content=bufferd08d9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.madewitharkit.com/post/162250399073/another-ar-measurement-app-demo-this-time
http://www.madewitharkit.com/post/162045355278/kitchen-moon-landing-by-tomasgarcia

[call_me_ishmael]

Okay, this is just bananas. How in the world...

https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/880815805281300480

[hoosier]

Look at this!

http://www.funnyjunk.com/Look+at+this/funny-pictures/5617282#e8ffe9_5616838
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/90000/nahled/look-at-this-blocky-text.jpg
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/9d/9d30d317d19a263523237f4e4c13fc0830d66eca7136744572 bc6b9b4584c333.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c0/61/43/c06143102008da856371b2566102f671.jpg

[MadtownPacker]

How about you take your soft, feminine hands outside and work in the dirt or do something that involves no smartphone or screen.

[Zool]

How about you take your soft, feminine hands outside and work in the dirt or do something that involves no smartphone or screen.

Check out Huck Finn trying to get someone to whitewash his fence.

[mraynrand]

I saw Cinderella naked. Now I understand what the mice were talking about.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4721124/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6

[mraynrand]

Some more augmented reality


https://media.giphy.com/media/eysodj3C1ywJq/giphy-downsized-large.gif

[call_me_ishmael]

This is crazy.

https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/884512251184590851

[SkinBasket]

But does it have a dual parallax background?

[hoosier]

This is crazy.

https://twitter.com/madewithARKit/status/884512251184590851

You can literally see it eating the world, can't you. It can superimpose itself in any form on any image whatsoever. What is truly amazing, though, is that there is no end ever to the narcissistic fascination with newness for its own sake, no matter how vapid and pointless.

Millennial culture will be the end of civilization. Five thousand years from now, when some new civilization with its archaeologists unearth our ruins, they will conclude that the Nazis in fact were the true victors in WWII and that Twitter was the official voice of the Sixth Reich.

[call_me_ishmael]

Why are you being a dick? You don't believe Augmented reality is the next frontier? Well, if you're interested in considering or learning why it's going to be a big, just follow the money. Venture Capital firms are investing in AR/VR like crazy right now, and both Alphabet and Apple have been on record saying they think it's going to be a huge driver of growth and disruption in the coming years.

Look no further than Pokemon Go taking over the lives of millions of people with a smart phone last year. Now apply that to something that helps the economy or makes a dramatic improvement in capability like surgery or manufacturing. The world is about to get very interesting.

[mraynrand]

You can literally see it eating the world, can't you. It can superimpose itself in any form on any image whatsoever. What is truly amazing, though, is that there is no end ever to the narcissistic fascination with newness for its own sake, no matter how vapid and pointless.

Millennial culture will be the end of civilization. Five thousand years from now, when some new civilization with its archaeologists unearth our ruins, they will conclude that the Nazis in fact were the true victors in WWII and that Twitter was the official voice of the Sixth Reich.

Adolf did keep the eco-friendly light rail running on time.

[hoosier]

Why are you being a dick? You don't believe Augmented reality is the next frontier? Well, if you're interested in considering or learning why it's going to be a big, just follow the money. Venture Capital firms are investing in AR/VR like crazy right now, and both Alphabet and Apple have been on record saying they think it's going to be a huge driver of growth and disruption in the coming years.

Look no further than Pokemon Go taking over the lives of millions of people with a smart phone last year. Now apply that to something that helps the economy or makes a dramatic improvement in capability like surgery or manufacturing. The world is about to get very interesting.

The world is already interesting enough, thank you. I get impatient with this myopic, overly-optimistic, self-promoting techie culture that cannot see past the tip of its own nose and thinks it's the center of everything and the answer to all of the world's problems--problems it couldn't begin to analyze because it cannot actually think. Go back and read Adam Smith and Karl Marx, or just read Marshall Berman's book All That is Solid Melts into Air. You'll see that capitalism has always been about "growth and disruption" and that augmented reality is thus another name for "nothing new under the sun."

[mraynrand]

Go back and read Adam Smith

Theory of Moral Sentiments!

[Zool]

Didn't Apple say the Segway was going to revolutionize the world? Not all "can't miss" tech hits. Google Glass was a can't miss as well. Some things are actually before their time and I think VR is one of them. It will fade for a while, then come back strong.

[HowardRoark]

Evidently MIT is developing a shitter that is constantly monitoring your feces and urine and will spit out health information to you. I think that is something useful; not as cool as Partial's gadgets, but useful nonetheless.

[mraynrand]

Evidently MIT is developing a shitter that is constantly monitoring your feces and urine and will spit out health information to you. I think that is something useful; not as cool as Partial's gadgets, but useful nonetheless.

Slight calcium deficiency.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyvs1U6nKmk

[Zool]

Evidently MIT is developing a shitter that is constantly monitoring your feces and urine and will spit out health information to you. I think that is something useful; not as cool as Partial's gadgets, but useful nonetheless.

They totally stole that idea from Scrubs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK0fU6Kq4xU

[hoosier]

Evidently MIT is developing a shitter that is constantly monitoring your feces and urine and will spit out health information to you. I think that is something useful; not as cool as Partial's gadgets, but useful nonetheless.

Useful perhaps but clearly not relevant for this thread! You would need to show how the information enhancement relies on augmented reality. For example, maybe the information could be delivered in the form of a talking turd that would deliver the good (or bad) health news, maybe modeled on Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo from South Park.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ABUYLeyR3k

[HowardRoark]

That's a good point. That'd make it a more useful shit analyzer.

[call_me_ishmael]

The "toys" that engineers play with on weekends are what becomes mainstream products we all use in 5 years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mraynrand]

The "toys" that engineers play with on weekends are what becomes mainstream products we all use in 5 years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


For some reason, the craft beer toothpaste I was working on in my basement 5 years ago never took off.

[call_me_ishmael]

https://twitter.com/AsherVo/status/888455623930552320

This is pretty sick

[mraynrand]

https://twitter.com/AsherVo/status/888455623930552320

This is pretty sick

you can't run electrical conduit behind a gas fireplace. That's a code violation.

[Zool]

Heh, Sketchup used with video is sick?

[mraynrand]

Heh, Sketchup used with video is sick?

Mmmmmmmm....ketchuuuup....

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140127212049/degrassi/images/thumb/2/24/Mmm_-_Homer_Simpson.gif/200px-0,239,24,144-Mmm_-_Homer_Simpson.gif

[hoosier]

Heh, Sketchup used with video is sick?

It is if you can use it to determine if your 300lb Aunt Bertha would fit into your antique chair without reducing it to splinters. I think that is where this AR is going: augment the furniture into the room and augment the hippo into the love seat.