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Computer vision, and augmented reality. Real-time 3d reconstruction from simple video is currently possible with desktop computing power. I suspect that withi
by jholman 14y ago
Computer vision, and augmented reality.
Real-time 3d reconstruction from simple video is currently possible with desktop computing power. I suspect that within 5 years it'll be possible with mobile computing power (note that the real dependency here is power efficiency). Obviously textured light techniques are even more powerful.
With projects like Glass and Myo, wearable computing is coming together.
We have the conceptual pieces we need to do useful augmented reality. Start by modelling lots of the world, both the geometry and also object categorization (the latter, admittedly, is still evolving fuzzily). Then build an app framework, for apps to help people execute tasks. One obvious example is step-by-step overlay instructions for doing repairs (changing your own car oil isn't that hard, right, but it's too intimidating for many people).
I think the short film Sight gets it mostly right, except I'm not talking about cybernetic augmentation, only wearable computing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFiE82Npbn4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFiE82Npbn4
There's lots of potential there.
- 31reasons 14y agoThis company is building AR Chip! http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/metaios-augmented-reality-chip-will-be-super-useful-just-not-in-phones/ http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/metaios-augmented-reality-chip-... AR is definitely going to explode in next 5 years. Incredible potential to make lives easier.
- alok-g 14y ago>> Real-time 3d reconstruction from simple video is currently possible with desktop computing power. Can you point me to more on this? Stuff for reading? Toolkits? SDKs? etc.
- 31reasons 14y agohttp://www.metaio.com/products/sdk/ http://www.metaio.com/products/sdk/ They have 3D tracking in the SDK so it must be doing 3D modeling based on realtime video stream.
- jholman 14y agoThe most-impressive research projects I'm aware of are from a few years ago. Andrew Davison's group at Imperial College London has done lots of impressive things, but especially notice Richard Newcombe's DTAM. http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/robotvision/website/php/pubs.php http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/robotvision/website/php/pubs.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9WhgibCQA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9WhgibCQA A precursor to this is the also-pretty-awesome PTAM (note the name resemblence), from Georg Klein at Oxford. http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk/ http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk/
- 31reasons 14y agoPretty awesome video!