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Teachers knowing names and information of each of their students just by looking at them. Virtual stores occupying empty physical space. Guides on how to do j

Teachers knowing names and information of each of their students just by looking at them. Virtual stores occupying empty physical space. Guides on how to do just about anything—learn to play instruments, repair things, emergency first aid. Navigation overlays and guided tours with Wikipedia information popups.

zxcvvcxz 13y ago
"Teachers knowing names and information of each of their students just by looking at them." Maybe for substitutes. "Guides on how to do just about anything—learn to play instruments, repair things, emergency first aid." Here are some of my thoughts on instruments. For the piano, you're much better off creating a keyboard that lights up the right keys at the right time so you just place your hands on top of them, and build muscle memory faster that way. For string instruments (including the guitar), you're not really able to look at your own hands, and looking at someone else's hands in a reversed view is confusing - and can be done with a video overlay vs. any augmented reality. Could I be overlooking a teaching mechanism here you had in mind? "Navigation overlays and guided tours with Wikipedia information popups." Yeah I generally think overlays are better uses for computerized glasses. However my question was targeted specifically at augmented reality, which I consider different from straight-up overlays such as Google Glass showing you a map. Perhaps I should have clarified better. "Virtual stores occupying empty physical space." This I like. I was actually tinkering with software to make a marker-based AR haunted house. Basically there would be QR-code-like markers everywhere, and as you'd look at them through the Glasses, something scary would pop up =) Regardless, the haunted house idea seems like a novelty. And the virtual store thing seems to imply that lots of consumers would have computerized glasses - or the store could own them and lend them out, but then how many do you need to buy, and is it really worth it?
- LoganCale 13y ago
  Regarding teachers, I'm thinking of lecture classes with 100 students. A similar feature would be great in other opt-in environments like parties or other situations where one wants to meet people. Regarding teaching mechanisms, for instruments the advantage of AR over custom hardware is that you don't have to buy a special learning piano or guitar, you can just use the one you've got with your AR glasses.

zxcvvcxz 13y ago

"Teachers knowing names and information of each of their students just by looking at them." Maybe for substitutes. "Guides on how to do just about anything—learn to play instruments, repair things, emergency first aid." Here are some of my thoughts on instruments. For the piano, you're much better off creating a keyboard that lights up the right keys at the right time so you just place your hands on top of them, and build muscle memory faster that way. For string instruments (including the guitar), you're not really able to look at your own hands, and looking at someone else's hands in a reversed view is confusing - and can be done with a video overlay vs. any augmented reality. Could I be overlooking a teaching mechanism here you had in mind? "Navigation overlays and guided tours with Wikipedia information popups." Yeah I generally think overlays are better uses for computerized glasses. However my question was targeted specifically at augmented reality, which I consider different from straight-up overlays such as Google Glass showing you a map. Perhaps I should have clarified better. "Virtual stores occupying empty physical space." This I like. I was actually tinkering with software to make a marker-based AR haunted house. Basically there would be QR-code-like markers everywhere, and as you'd look at them through the Glasses, something scary would pop up =) Regardless, the haunted house idea seems like a novelty. And the virtual store thing seems to imply that lots of consumers would have computerized glasses - or the store could own them and lend them out, but then how many do you need to buy, and is it really worth it?

LoganCale 13y ago
Regarding teachers, I'm thinking of lecture classes with 100 students. A similar feature would be great in other opt-in environments like parties or other situations where one wants to meet people. Regarding teaching mechanisms, for instruments the advantage of AR over custom hardware is that you don't have to buy a special learning piano or guitar, you can just use the one you've got with your AR glasses.