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I'm thinking the value of having Yelp overlayed on VR/AR alone. Youre sitting at home, and you do a walkthrough of your vacation before you go, get familiar wi

by basch 6y ago

I'm thinking the value of having Yelp overlayed on VR/AR alone. Youre sitting at home, and you do a walkthrough of your vacation before you go, get familiar with the location, learn your routes. Then you get there, and you have your map/dots/itinerary overlayed. Being able to walk around an area, to find things that look interesting to you, vs searching yelp/tripadvisor. I'm on board with your vision. Realtime infinite zoom and synthetic upscaling are around the corner. Sure you wont be able to add actual detail of specific things that isnt captured anywhere, but it will be an acceptable substitute. Being able to reposition a camera in a photo, after it is taken.

pedalpete 6y ago
On the "actual detail of specific things" comment, I think generative AI will get a long way there to be convincing. But almost more importantly there are two non-obvious things that people don't realize when thinking of why this won't work. 1) the camera is focused on the subject mater, and we don't offer free roam. The subject is always the focus and we more around that subject. Because the subject matter is focused, the real-world camera never captured that information anyway. The person taking the photo or the person viewing it, doesn't know what is there and what isn't, so to convince them of what they are seeing, as long as the subject matter is re-created, should be fine for 90% of the content. We're not re-creating crime scenes, we're giving you a new way to experience your memories. 2) we mis-remember so many things anyway, that these details that (as mentioned above are likely not important) will the viewer remember that the person walking past behind the person taking the photo had a blue shirt on or yellow. Will it matter? We already have a flexible relationship with media, as so much is photoshopped to get the image the person wanted to take vs what they actually took. I suspect we will go deeper down this rabbit-hole and be more and more and expect to be thinking to ourselves "it's a nice photo, probably isn't like that IRL".

by basch 6y ago

pedalpete 6y ago

On the "actual detail of specific things" comment, I think generative AI will get a long way there to be convincing. But almost more importantly there are two non-obvious things that people don't realize when thinking of why this won't work. 1) the camera is focused on the subject mater, and we don't offer free roam. The subject is always the focus and we more around that subject. Because the subject matter is focused, the real-world camera never captured that information anyway. The person taking the photo or the person viewing it, doesn't know what is there and what isn't, so to convince them of what they are seeing, as long as the subject matter is re-created, should be fine for 90% of the content. We're not re-creating crime scenes, we're giving you a new way to experience your memories. 2) we mis-remember so many things anyway, that these details that (as mentioned above are likely not important) will the viewer remember that the person walking past behind the person taking the photo had a blue shirt on or yellow. Will it matter? We already have a flexible relationship with media, as so much is photoshopped to get the image the person wanted to take vs what they actually took. I suspect we will go deeper down this rabbit-hole and be more and more and expect to be thinking to ourselves "it's a nice photo, probably isn't like that IRL".