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Future of augmented reality

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Kuroshima:
hahaha sekai camera on iphone :)
interesting stuff....

DaggerLite:
Well, I haven't replied to this thread yet, because I didn't really see the truth in OPs video. However, I recently saw a video with similar views. This isn't really about AR, but it's a vision of a game-like future, which in my opinion is just as scary. I figured it'd be better to use this thread, since both videos do share common views about the future.

It's a lot about Facebook up until 7 minutes, it gets fairly good after that in my opinion, and around 20 minutes and further (to the 30 minutes end mark) it's fairly frightening. What makes it worse is the attitude of the otherwise sad-looking presenter. He seems awfully positive about the whole thing.

[Video HERE]

I am fairly sure that I won't fall for such a scheme myself, but I can't control what the people around me think. I mean, way to many people use Facebook and its shitty games daily, and even if I mostly stay away from it all I can't really affect what those other people spend their time promoting.

kostya:
The first video posted is scary. The system seems to be worse for vision than just seeing normally. Beside the fact that it is too busy, it will periodically have static cover real life objects.

As for what people were saying before about computers being smarter than people, it is only on select tasks that computers were designed for (brute force calculation, massive data parsing), in general, they are many orders of magnitude behind people on tasks such as sensory reactions and pattern recognition. The other day I attended a talk from a MIT PHD recipient, currently working at Harvard, on his state of the art system for a robot to pick stuff up. His robots shove an object around the table for about a foot before they can properly find it to grasp it. His robot could only get one type of grip on an object. Why? Because the human mind is an amazing thing. It learns very quickly and very well. We instinctively derive complicated patterns from our daily tasks and applies these patterns to other similar tasks. There is a reason why for centuries we have had computers that can multiply large numbers in seconds, but we have yet to create a computer that can do logical proofs.

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