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I can't wait until someone comes out with a tablet that has a camera on the backside, so you can do proper Augmented Reality. Imagine being able to walk around
by nym 17y ago
I can't wait until someone comes out with a tablet that has a camera on the backside, so you can do proper Augmented Reality. Imagine being able to walk around with a window into another world - now that's revolutionary.
- jobeirne 17y agoI can't imagine many people would take to strolling around with a large LCD screen poised in front of their faces.
- grinich 17y agoWhat if it was in your face?
- Groxx 17y agoIf you walk around, interacting with the world through a tablet with a camera, it may end up there, courtesy of <random person's name here>.
- naner 17y agoI was looking for that picture of Peter Griffin walking around with a cardboard TV cutout strapped to his head but I couldn't find it. So this is all you get.
- mtinkerhess 17y agoI can't wait until someone comes out with contact lenses with built-in displays and cameras.
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- axod 17y agocan't you do that on iPhones already? :/ Or you could just get a regular camera/video cam and hack the firmware to show cool stuff.
- nym 17y agoYes you can, just tiny screen, tiny processor.
- huhtenberg 17y agoI can't wait until someone comes out with a tablet that has a camera on the frontside, so that I can video-chat from the couch. This would be really awesome.
- blehn 17y agocan't you do that with a laptop?
- huhtenberg 17y agoI can do it even with a desktop computer and a 29" monitor :) It comes down to the matter of convenience.
- guelo 17y agoYou mean like the WePad?
- cakesy 17y agoYou know, we really do not want to see you. There isn't a great need for that. I could do it 7 years ago with my motorola e1000, never used it once. Now, I am sure some people would, but the market is not huge (my prediction).
- glhaynes 17y agoI've heard complaints from several (and happen to agree) that augmented reality sounds awesome in theory, but in practice you feel like a weirdo standing there holding a device in front of your face, aiming around the town square. I can only imagine how much of a jerk I'd feel like waving my tablet around. Perhaps that's just "my problem", but I think it's got a decent chance of preventing AR from ever being anything but a novelty. Integrate it invisibly (to others) into a contact lens or stylish glasses and you've REALLY got something, though. (On the other hand, just as I didn't predict that AR would feel as weird to do in public as it does on a phone, maybe it's less bad in practice when done on a tablet with both arms. More like a map.)
- eru 17y agoAnd talking on the phone in public felt weird at first, too. Now you can overhear strange one-sided conversations everywhere.