Augmented Reality

[Jebus]

This week I got rid of my Blackberry Storm and bought the new Ipod 16g 3GS.  I was screwing around with it for a few days and thought it was a pretty neat little phone.

I went to the Apple Store to buy a car charger/FM transmitter.  While I was there they told me to download this one application and that there was a hidden function in it.  I downloaded it and showed me how to get the hidden function.  What you do is you hold it like your going to take a picture and turn around and it will show you anything you want (restaurants, bars, stores, ect) and you can walk to it.  You actually see through the walls and floors where these stores are.

They then showed me what the next gen in gaming was going to be.  How the Iphone and other kinds of devices like it will be used for it.  This is the demo they showed me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNu4CluFOcw

I am sorry but that is pretty cool.

[Fulmar]

I'll give apple credit for making some nice products.  But doing service on any of there stuff is outrageous.  From their computers to their Ipods, they obviously want you to send it into them.  Most of the Ipod designs for changing batteries are absolutely horrible.  Especially their newer stuff.

[Denholm]

Tell me when the X-Ray app comes around.



Rrrrrr.

[Vulcan]

Augmented Reality is the next 'big thing'. Read Gibsons novel Spook Country if you want to see where it could and will go.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I don't think gaming is going to be very fun on this miniscule phone screens. Where I do see augmented reality possible is Google maps etc. integration where you can see street names, path guidance etc. projected on augmented reality.

Gaming use would be thinkable with full 3D headset and augmented reality combined. Then it would start to rock. Even though even that brings up a few problems.. If augmented reality projects a flat ground where there's a pitfall.. Or if augmented reality projects an object on ground, you try to step on it but find nothing but air and lose balance..

I'm sure many hurdles will be in the way still.

[Skuzzy]

Ripley, you and I are of a different generation.  This new generation coming up behind us would be happy with VHS tape.  They do not have any appreciation for high quality images.  They really do believe, for the most part, that if it cannot be done with their phone, it really is a waste of time and has no value.

You should see how many support emails I get a day from phones.  Its mind boggling.  They get really frustrated when I ask for things like the DXDIAG output, because it is a pain for them to get it to their phone.

It's a new world.

[Strip]

I must be bucking that trend, I leave my at home and avoid it as much as I can.

It might have something to with gf ack tho.....

 

[Vulcan]

I don't think gaming is going to be very fun on this miniscule phone screens. Where I do see augmented reality possible is Google maps etc. integration where you can see street names, path guidance etc. projected on augmented reality.

Gaming use would be thinkable with full 3D headset and augmented reality combined. Then it would start to rock. Even though even that brings up a few problems.. If augmented reality projects a flat ground where there's a pitfall.. Or if augmented reality projects an object on ground, you try to step on it but find nothing but air and lose balance..

I'm sure many hurdles will be in the way still.

The next gen of vuzix products will do that, 3D headset compatible with an ipod and with dual 3d camera's. In spook country gibson proposes wifi AP's that offer up virtual projections of historic events based on location. For example you might go to NY and see what the twin towers loooked like, maybe even have an option to reply the events (a high quality 3d rendering viewable from all angles).

[Heater]

Maybe I am getting too old.... but I thought a phone was used for placing phone calls.....

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Ripley, you and I are of a different generation.  This new generation coming up behind us would be happy with VHS tape.  They do not have any appreciation for high quality images.  They really do believe, for the most part, that if it cannot be done with their phone, it really is a waste of time and has no value.

You should see how many support emails I get a day from phones.  Its mind boggling.  They get really frustrated when I ask for things like the DXDIAG output, because it is a pain for them to get it to their phone.

It's a new world.

LOL you're kidding right? Oh dear.. 

[Vulcan]

Maybe I am getting too old.... but I thought a phone was used for placing phone calls.....

that's sooooo 20th century.

[Grayeagle]

LOL Skuzzy .. I hear ya.

Heck I just saw a young guy on Speed Channel Pass Time list a 'muffler' on his Honda as a Power Adder.

Even wife thought that was funny

-Frank aka GE (a blower on a Hemi is a 'power adder' ..LOL)

[phatzo]

I also are one of these old school people who prefer to not always have their phone on them (except in the course of bussiness). My 17 year old daughter has had more phones than me, sorta reminds me of the Asimov short story where the scientist outrageous claims to be able to do mathematics with a pencil and paper and a computer (calculator) were not needed.

[Grayeagle]

I'm still waitin for my Holo-deck.

Solid State hard drives are here .. terabytes of info limited by bus speed at the moment.
Next up, displays .. gettin into measuring by the foot instead of inches ..
User interface ..already cameras that scan and build 3d shapes so you dont need to wear 'sensors'
to put you into the game.

It's gettin there.
Next ten years oughta be very good.

-GE aka Frank

[Jebus]

Ripley, you and I are of a different generation.  This new generation coming up behind us would be happy with VHS tape.  They do not have any appreciation for high quality images.  They really do believe, for the most part, that if it cannot be done with their phone, it really is a waste of time and has no value.

You should see how many support emails I get a day from phones.  Its mind boggling.  They get really frustrated when I ask for things like the DXDIAG output, because it is a pain for them to get it to their phone.

It's a new world.

No offense, but you are a little out of touch. I don't think the prevailing feeling is that it has no value just that the graphics getting better and better has lost its allure. The generation before ours was wondering why we would give up face to face social interaction of a complex board game to play pong. It is a cycle for which there is no escape. It does suck to be on the cutting edge of the snubbed technology, but such is life.