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As someone who works in AR, the potential downsides of AR worry me. One the plus side we can make the blind see and the deaf hear. We can keep dementia patient
by KaiserPro 6y ago
As someone who works in AR, the potential downsides of AR worry me.
One the plus side we can make the blind see and the deaf hear. We can keep dementia patients safe, and I can find my fucking keys.
Also AR porn is going to be wild.
However, we really have to interrogate the technology it's self.
Ar needs hyper accurate location to work. This means both SLAM and off device location services.
To make the location services work we need a global database of visual keypoints to allow devices figure out their position to the nearest MM. We are not far away from that now. (google have already launched a service in google maps.)
This means that any picture taken in public, or in view of windows, will leak your location.
What I worry about most is Apps that might be allowed to run on these glasses.
With mm level location services, and onboard acceleration for face detection and recognition, its trivial for an app maker to create a Uber stalking app.
- op03 6y agoIf it gets that good maybe we can get those Stalkers to spend their lives chasing after imaginary people and leave everyone else alone.
- cyberbanjo 6y agoThat would stop opportunistic stranger stalking only, no?
- germinalphrase 6y agoIf you don’t mind sharing, in what capacity do you work in AR?
- KaiserPro 6y agoI'm a devop for a company that makes visual location services specifically for AR.
- jononor 6y agoWith such localization capabilities from on images in public/outdoor, stalking/doxxing based on social media will get more common?
- kordlessagain 6y agoYou are making a big leap between using this at home and using it on the go. For one thing, nobody has battery technology good enough to allow someone to walk around with a headset on for the entire day. This claim of yours to mm accuracy needed leading to mass surveillance is a figment of an over active imagination. Will there eventually be googles on everyone and tracking for those? Yes, probably when we have nuclear batteries. Will we have other privacy invading tactics wielded against us by more unethical corporations in the meantime? You bet. I can barely keep my phone charged all day.
- msh 6y agoYou don't think it's possible with in the decade? I would not rule that out, combating 2010 tech to 2020 tech.
- KaiserPro 6y ago> For one thing, nobody has battery technology good enough to allow someone to walk around with a headset on for the entire day Facebook's project Aria does this now. Apple has a set of glasses in development that are more impressive and actually has screens. Google? fuck knows. > This claim of yours to mm accuracy needed leading to mass surveillance is a figment of an over active imagination This is my professional area of interest. Sadly its your imagination that's letting you down. Google and Apple know where you are at all times. As does your phone service provider. An app _can_ steal your location, but that's fairly obvious, or not very accurate. This is because your phone's location is only accurate when either using GPS, or lots of post processing by your service provider. All of which sucks power. AR _requires_ that location services fit in a budget of <250mw. You can't have AR without visual positioning. You can't have visual positioning without a database of key points. Once you have a database of keypoints, anybody can geo locate a picture within 5 minutes, automatically. This means that even if the AR glasses app blocks out precise location, its trivial to recover afterwards. This means that any app that runs on these glasses can trivially create it's own surveillance network. That is the risk. > Will we have other privacy invading tactics wielded against us by more unethical corporations in the meantime? I'm specifically talking about AR, and AR only.
- hobby-coder-guy 6y agoOn