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What value does augmented reality add to anything?

elcomet 7y ago
I'm thinking of assisting drivers. Projecting stuff into the road to guide the driver, or warn him when there are dangerous objects.
- yodon 7y ago
  I'm not sure the thing people have been doing perfectly well for 100 years without AR glasses that billions of dollars are being invested in making people not need to do at all is the place to launch your AR dream company
  - CamperBob2 7y ago
    For values of "Doing perfectly well" that encompass "Killing 30,000 people a year."
- windsurfer 7y ago
  I like the idea of using it for safety. Is that something currently being done, or still in the experimental stages?
rapsey 7y ago
If you don't need a monitor, you don't need the computer as we know it today. Combine it with a brain computer interface and you throw away the keyboard and mouse as well. Subsequently you also throw away all the OS'es as we know them. AR/VR is a toy today. In the future our computers and mobile phones might look as arcane as an eniac.
- somatic 7y ago
  I recommend Hegel with Neuralink: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppGlEiQXrRI https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppGlEiQXrRI Unless the computer is itself capable of anticipating and satisfying your desires — which, I grant, is possible, but, I would argue, incredibly, incredibly dystopian — you will need to consciously articulate your thoughts in such a way that the computer serves your will. That conscious articulation is the bottleneck. Not the keyboard, not the mouse, and certainly not the typing speed. This is, of course, assuming that the computer remains the servant rather than becoming the master.
  - rapsey 7y ago
    If it needs to be a learnable skill like typing, that is just as revolutionary. The interface does not have to be that deep. Just enough to input words and movements. Hell it could be voice commands.
  - KhoomeiK 7y ago
    Not if the BCI is trained on data produced by users in a natural thinking state.
  - darepublic 7y ago
    I am thinking of the keyboardless typing with wrist bands as an intermediary step. I agree controlling conscious thought is difficult, but you could just key in commands with small impulses of the wrists and it would still be quite a bit more convenient than pulling out the phone
somatic 7y ago
Adtech. Hence Facebook/Oculus.
antupis 7y ago
Think about car mechanics seeing what do next if you want to open this specific motor or electrician seeing where cables are in the wall. Or physicians seeing specific information about patients eg how fast is he is breathing, what patient temperature is etc.
auiya 7y ago
Ask the porn industry in 1-2 years.
zip1234 7y ago
Visualizing any change to the exterior of a building or new construction project in the actual location that it will be.
- onemoresoop 7y ago
  And how many people would need that on a daily basis? This sounds to be a useful but somewhat niche area
  - zip1234 7y ago
    There are 1.2 millions houses built in the US every year. I could see the applications pretty vast actually. Another possible idea is for landscaping. Often times a tree will be planted that ends up too big or too small for the space. With an app that can show a tree in the space at various stages in it's life, it could really help in landscape design.

I'm thinking of assisting drivers. Projecting stuff into the road to guide the driver, or warn him when there are dangerous objects.

yodon 7y ago
I'm not sure the thing people have been doing perfectly well for 100 years without AR glasses that billions of dollars are being invested in making people not need to do at all is the place to launch your AR dream company
- CamperBob2 7y ago
  For values of "Doing perfectly well" that encompass "Killing 30,000 people a year."
windsurfer 7y ago
I like the idea of using it for safety. Is that something currently being done, or still in the experimental stages?

rapsey 7y ago

If you don't need a monitor, you don't need the computer as we know it today. Combine it with a brain computer interface and you throw away the keyboard and mouse as well. Subsequently you also throw away all the OS'es as we know them. AR/VR is a toy today. In the future our computers and mobile phones might look as arcane as an eniac.

somatic 7y ago
I recommend Hegel with Neuralink: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppGlEiQXrRI https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppGlEiQXrRI Unless the computer is itself capable of anticipating and satisfying your desires — which, I grant, is possible, but, I would argue, incredibly, incredibly dystopian — you will need to consciously articulate your thoughts in such a way that the computer serves your will. That conscious articulation is the bottleneck. Not the keyboard, not the mouse, and certainly not the typing speed. This is, of course, assuming that the computer remains the servant rather than becoming the master.
- rapsey 7y ago
  If it needs to be a learnable skill like typing, that is just as revolutionary. The interface does not have to be that deep. Just enough to input words and movements. Hell it could be voice commands.
- KhoomeiK 7y ago
  Not if the BCI is trained on data produced by users in a natural thinking state.
- darepublic 7y ago
  I am thinking of the keyboardless typing with wrist bands as an intermediary step. I agree controlling conscious thought is difficult, but you could just key in commands with small impulses of the wrists and it would still be quite a bit more convenient than pulling out the phone

somatic 7y ago

Adtech. Hence Facebook/Oculus.

antupis 7y ago

Think about car mechanics seeing what do next if you want to open this specific motor or electrician seeing where cables are in the wall. Or physicians seeing specific information about patients eg how fast is he is breathing, what patient temperature is etc.

auiya 7y ago

Ask the porn industry in 1-2 years.

zip1234 7y ago

Visualizing any change to the exterior of a building or new construction project in the actual location that it will be.

onemoresoop 7y ago
And how many people would need that on a daily basis? This sounds to be a useful but somewhat niche area
- zip1234 7y ago
  There are 1.2 millions houses built in the US every year. I could see the applications pretty vast actually. Another possible idea is for landscaping. Often times a tree will be planted that ends up too big or too small for the space. With an app that can show a tree in the space at various stages in it's life, it could really help in landscape design.