Augmented Reality
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- antonyjwhite
Hell internet.
I am a student doing some research into Augmented Reality.
I just want to know whats the purpose in it?
I feel that the future of AR is to use for mapping and way finding.
It just seems that most of the time I've seen people use it quite gimmicky.
Does this emerging technology have a future, or will it just be a fad?
Look forward to hearing back from anybody!
- detritus0
If you can't even be bothered to search this site for the numerous AR threads its had, I hope no one else bothers doing your homework for you.
- Don't you think this is overreacting? Is this really a bad question in comparison to the threads we have?CyBrain
- Maybe. Just sounds like absolutely no thought has been put into the query, is all.detritus
- I'm just bitter because I didn't have the internet to answer my questions for me when I was at uni.detritus
- Actually—
I'm just bitter.detritus - hey sorry, I had an assignment to start a conversation. Sorry to bother youantonyjwhite
- JSK0
All hope is lost. The future is lost.
- CyBrain0
You can't blame good technology if people don't put it to good use. That would be like blaming Photoshop for lens flares and HDR tackiness.
I think there are a ton of good reasons to use it. Yours is one example.
- WeLoveNoise0
many purposes but the best i heard was the one where it acted as a visual aid in snowboarding
so companies such as burton, adidas etc are looking to implementing AR into their goggles so that when your boarding high up in the mountains and you cant see anything but white, the goggles show what the snow should look like by highlighing it's shadows.
- this prob didnt make any senseWeLoveNoise
- In the future they'll do a daily helicopter radar scan of the slopes and upload the data to highlight moguls and bad snowdetritus
- or not.detritus
- yeah thats it.
cant wait. bet i'm going to have to break the bank for the gogglesWeLoveNoise
- ukit0
You can imagine infinite uses really. You're basically talking about making computer generated graphics part of the real world, so think of all the different applications that could have. I think the perception that its a gimmick is more due to the immature nature of the technology rather than its ultimate potential.
- antonyjwhite0
Thanks from the responses, its certainly given me some new angles to take my project.
Do any of you use this technology professionally at all? If so in what way?
I'm sorry if I annoyed you Detritus. I just wanted to just get myself onto a forum and start a conversation. I am not lazy, I'm am merely just trying to find resources for my research. These places are much better than using search engines. Thanks for the help.- What a polite kid. lolukit
- rookiepinkfloyd
- cheers!antonyjwhite
- stop it. say fuck, shit, somethingbrandelec
- brandelec0
some of our print ads are using Scanlife codes. that's about it.
- ukit0
It will not take off until they mass produce a viewing device.
Otherwise you are just looking at it through your phone or even worse your computer camera. Laaame
- stewdio0
Why not try it for yourself?
- detritus0
Sorry, I'm a bit of a dick sometimes - I just thought you were clumsily trying to get out of doing your own thinking on't subject.
AR, in my belief, is THE future of computer interfaces - but quite in what form, who knows?
The problem we face at the moment is the social parity and constancy of the interface in its interaction with visual perception - ie. what mode will the AR take systematically, and how will that evolve?
Right now, we can take a 2D panel (phone, touchpad, etc) hooked up to GPS, a camera and smart tracking, and have it overlay data augmentatively. That's fine and indeed, pretty damn cool - but it's fairly basic. We're still prodding around, trying to work out what it's good for - hence all of the gimmickry. Samesame every time a new tech emerges.
Fast forward 15 - 25 (50 - 100..) years and we should have advancements in 'ocular displays' - either embedded at the back of the retina (as seen in current attempts to restore site to certain classes of the blind) or in-contact lens (don't have the link to hand, but 'someone' (MIT? israeli Uni or something?) recently demonstrated EM-powered (as with RFID) small matrix structures that could emit light within a contact lens).
Couple this kind of tech with the likely hyper-networked and hyper-embedded future we're already knee-deep in and we can envisage the emergence of 'consensus virtual realities' either in totality (as in total immersion - shut your eyes or turn off the lights and immerse yourself entirely in VR) or merely augmentatively.
Given that there's a huge interest in 3D, both in terms of glasses at the movies or in fast RPM rotating 'displays', it easy to imagine professional/military implants in the not-too distant future, and then at a consumer level thereafter. At the very least, we'll have clunky 'glasses' that can do this in the next 5-10 years, latest.
See - unless we can come up with some cheap, easy, portable, safe way of creating voluminous 3d displays made up of pixels (voxels?) of air being plasmafied into myriad forms of coloured dots, we'll never have 3d displays like envisaged when R2-D2 projected Princess Leia ( - or, more recently where Robert Downey Jnr. or Tom Cruise interact with free-floating visual displays in Iron Man or Minority Report).
We could, however, cheat and interact with a 'consensus virtual reality', as rendered in the cloud, then projected seperately, to each individual.
Luke and ObeWan both see Leia's projection, as if she were tiny and standing on the table, but a third party viewer lacking the AR tech would just see them gaping stupidly at free space, talking about something that isn't even there.
- Stugoo0
- beat me to it.neandersthal
- hahah, that's brilliant - come on the day they can pull in Google 3Dbuildings and have them blow up too!detritus
- such a fanboys wet dream, amazingly well executed. I can see AR being good for gaming, however you are very limited, also with this game, for the best results you have to play on top of a building!antonyjwhite
- detritus0
I quite like considering QR or Sema codes (etc) as a form of AR, being that they can be used to augment real world spaces with links to virtual space data. Even aside from their being used as spatial reference points with which to overlay graphical data, just having a hyperlink can be construed as augmentative.
As potentially terrifying as they are, the idea of embedding RFID-like data motes into *everything* (as dreamed about so much in the early JAVA days) could also be construed as a form of 'Augmentative Reality'.
Basically - everything we do in tech terms from now on will be 'Augmentative', in my opinion.
It isn't just about the cool 3d graphics...
- IRNlun60
- thisukit
- om nom nom, good find, completely forgot about thisantonyjwhite
- detritus0
You know what would be cool? Augmented Reality cooking lessons. I guess it would only practically work with AR specs - but think how useful a training tool it could be..
You have Matrix-code/RFID tagged cooking ware, crockery, surfaces and tools - a smart oven &c, then kick ass indicator graphics overlaid over where you should cook (giving in-frame video examples of 'How') and 2Advanced-like glowing hyper graphic timing rings around pots and pans on the hob.
Just follow all the steps.
After that, sit down and eat your creation with a virtual Nigella who's wearing a very revealing bodice and is laughing at all your jokes and playing footsie with you under the table.
Guess there'd need to be some kind of mechanical stroking device for the footsie though. Not sure how plausible that is.