Augmented Reality

Joel Goguen jtgoguen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 21:36:21 UTC 2009


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JohnD wrote:
> Tagging buildings and accessing information with eye (and brain)
> implants would actually be an interferring filter between us and reality
> for 2 reasons (off the top of my head). First - the quality and content
> of the descriptive information would immediately bias us over what we
> seeing (reviews of whatever it is we're looking at) and secondly, we
> will interperet everything firstly though the easy to access written,
> spoken, or visual tags, and secondly though actually interacting with
> it. This is a real world interaction replaced with a computer (social
> networking) commentary - a step away from reality.
While I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying, there's plenty
of scenarios where I would find this useful.  Such as if I'm outside the
theatre looking at movie posters, I would love to be able to see a quick
synopsis of the film and reviews trusted individuals (in my case, my
friends, but maybe some people would include some critics or choose to
see all ratings overall) have given the movie.  Right now, I avoid the
theatre until at least a few people who I know think like I do have seen
it and say it's worth the $10 ticket.

Another scenario would be for helping me to identify newly-met people.
This shouldn't be a "hey, let's download their identity data from their
implants" thing, rather a "hey I just heard their name, I'll associate
it with their face" thing.  I'm absolutely horrible when it comes to
remembering names, so something to remind me of a person's name would be
great.

Also, for walking through a museum or around an area with a lot of
memorials and monuments (Washington, D.C.?  Vimy Ridge?  How many
lesser-known places right here in Canada?) it would be nice to have a
brief history or synopsis of each item.  I can go to Washington and see
the Lincoln Memorial, but without handouts or a lot of reading and
printing, I can't be there, look at it, and see both the memorial and
the history behind it.  Sure I could read about it before/after going to
see it, but I prefer to be able to skim or read the history as I'm
there.  Not so easy these days.

Again, I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying, but done
properly this idea has potential.  Of course, we can just look around
the existing virtual world to get a look at a lot of things that have a
lot of potential if done right that're currently being done very wrong,
so I won't hold out hope of seeing augmented reality done properly
either :)  As long as it has the potential to make even a few
corporations a lot of money through advertising, it won't be done
properly.  As much as the above scenarios appeal to me, if I have to
look at ads I won't be using it.

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Joel Goguen
Ubuntu User #15951
When we help, we benefit
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