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Or lonely or bored. Want a cyberpunk cyborg dog that can speak in a voice of darth vader? Want Cara Delevingne to be your english lang tutor? Want to pair progr

by qaq 4y ago

Or lonely or bored. Want a cyberpunk cyborg dog that can speak in a voice of darth vader? Want Cara Delevingne to be your english lang tutor? Want to pair program with Linus Torvalds? Want Neytiri from Avatar to be your personal Yoga instructor?

zabzonk 4y ago
nope, don't want any of them, though i must admit i quite like cara.
- qaq 4y ago
  I find it hard to believe that you can not come up with a single AR scenario that will either make learning process, work process or entertainment option more fun.
  - zabzonk 4y ago
    isn't this about vr rather than ar? i can certainly think about situations where ar would be useful, though none have been demonstrated to be viable yet - rather the reverse when you think of things like google glass.
    - qaq 4y ago
      The whole premise of my comment Meta, Disney etc overfocused on VR when AR will be way bigger market and we have the tech that will make it viable.
      - zabzonk 4y ago
        i don't think that, lovely though she is, i wan't cara to pop up in my glasses (which, because of bad eyesight, i wear all the time) and no, i do not think we have the technology, particularly batteries. i will admit that if i could ask my glasses "where is the nearest atm?" and it then popped up an arrow pointing at it, i might pay for that. but that means stuffing a lot of hardware into the frames - about the equivalent of a high-end smartphone.
  - jlarocco 4y ago
    I'd rather just have a real person or go it alone. Maybe I'm too old or too anti-social, but using an AR or VR for those things seems kind of sad and depressing to me.
    - vidarh 4y ago
      For me, I think it's that I consume text much faster than e.g. video or someone talking, and it doesn't distract me. I just want to be left alone when I want to focus and learn things. I love using ChatGPT to explore a subject now, though, because it's pure text and I am driving it, so I can totally see people who are more visual and social learners want something similar "packaged up" in an avatar.
robopsychology 4y ago
I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; I see it’s benefit to certain groups like the elderly but hope I never have to use such a startup
- zabzonk 4y ago
  > like the elderly really? i cannot imagine strapping my late mum into some vr headset.
  - robopsychology 4y ago
    No but I heard Alexa had proved useful for elderly loneliness and I imagine this tech will improve there - I agree I don’t see them sat in an Oculus at a gaming rig lol
- jlarocco 4y ago
  > I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; Glad I'm not the only one. I don't see the appeal at all.
  - paganel 4y ago
    The people in here are certainly the minority, at least for now. I hope it will remain that way, but you never know.

by qaq 4y ago

zabzonk 4y ago

nope, don't want any of them, though i must admit i quite like cara.

qaq 4y ago
I find it hard to believe that you can not come up with a single AR scenario that will either make learning process, work process or entertainment option more fun.
- zabzonk 4y ago
  isn't this about vr rather than ar? i can certainly think about situations where ar would be useful, though none have been demonstrated to be viable yet - rather the reverse when you think of things like google glass.
  - qaq 4y ago
    The whole premise of my comment Meta, Disney etc overfocused on VR when AR will be way bigger market and we have the tech that will make it viable.
    - zabzonk 4y ago
      i don't think that, lovely though she is, i wan't cara to pop up in my glasses (which, because of bad eyesight, i wear all the time) and no, i do not think we have the technology, particularly batteries. i will admit that if i could ask my glasses "where is the nearest atm?" and it then popped up an arrow pointing at it, i might pay for that. but that means stuffing a lot of hardware into the frames - about the equivalent of a high-end smartphone.
- jlarocco 4y ago
  I'd rather just have a real person or go it alone. Maybe I'm too old or too anti-social, but using an AR or VR for those things seems kind of sad and depressing to me.
  - vidarh 4y ago
    For me, I think it's that I consume text much faster than e.g. video or someone talking, and it doesn't distract me. I just want to be left alone when I want to focus and learn things. I love using ChatGPT to explore a subject now, though, because it's pure text and I am driving it, so I can totally see people who are more visual and social learners want something similar "packaged up" in an avatar.

robopsychology 4y ago

I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; I see it’s benefit to certain groups like the elderly but hope I never have to use such a startup

zabzonk 4y ago
> like the elderly really? i cannot imagine strapping my late mum into some vr headset.
- robopsychology 4y ago
  No but I heard Alexa had proved useful for elderly loneliness and I imagine this tech will improve there - I agree I don’t see them sat in an Oculus at a gaming rig lol
jlarocco 4y ago
> I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; Glad I'm not the only one. I don't see the appeal at all.
- paganel 4y ago
  The people in here are certainly the minority, at least for now. I hope it will remain that way, but you never know.