Actually #4 is already underway with nintendo DS and iphones... they call it augmented reality... kinda amazing that Karl came up with that!

In the way that Charlie Chaplin's film, Modern Times offered a *parody-ied insight into the implications of the industrial revolution, so too did I notice here some interesting (albeit absurd and exaggerated) considerations posited on the impact of digital culture, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, et. al. on our humanity. With every technology comes an incomparable cost.

I used to be With IT. But then they changed what IT was. Now what I'm with isn't IT, and what's IT seems scary and wierd. It'll happen to YOU.>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^budzos:
This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.
Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.
The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.


It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.
"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.
...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

QFT
>> ^rottenseed:

It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.
"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.
...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

>> ^budzos:
This is my life, so often. It has honestly contributed to my social anxiety, which is pretty much peaked right now. Increasingly for years I could not go to a party or accept a dinner invitation without being shuffled into the home office to fix some vague problem like "my computer is slow"... especially in the dark malware-ridden days of XP's mid-life in 2003-2005.
Over the past five years I've gone from freely helping anyone who asks, even offering in many cases, to downplaying my computer skills, telling them "I don't know" or "I can't help you" even if it's a lie, and most satisfyingly of all: simply saying "No, I'm too busy" or "Sure, $100 per hour" or "If I were a race car driver would you want me to fix your car? For free!?" .. depending on the relationship. Immediate family and like-family friends are of course excepted.
The level of computer "skills" in the average home or workplace is really pathetic. I have clients who can't absorb the concept of cut-and-paste. I always get messages from them saying "the client says the link is broken" because I've sent them a complex URL which they re-typed manually into a word document instead of just forwarding or at least using cut and paste.



It's ok...one day soon these people will be dead, and we'll be the ones calling our younger co-workers over to help us use our virtual reality gloves on our augmented reality projectors.

"No you have to grab the file with your left hand and shake your right index finger to paste your selections," they'll say with a disgusted look on their face.

...and their music? Their music will just be a solid wall of noise and pitches with strange mumbling. We'll have to tell them about real music that talked about things like slappin' hoes and fuckin' bitches.

CNN without facebook, twitter, or augmented reality?

WTF IS THIS?

>> ^KnivesOut:

And then imagine what will happen when every advertiser is competing for your attention by monetizing and infiltrating those interstitial spaces.>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Imagine with me a strange new future. A future were augmented reality replaces the normal. Were buildings are plane, with no wall paper and decorative niceties. Where all (much) fashion and art isn't physical, but displayed directly in your brain/retina. Why paint my wall when I can just change a setting in my AR homepage. Today, I want every display space of my path down to my work to be in the theme of Gothic, Classical, Newaged, or Blue! Reality is so yesterday, prepare for augmented reality.



Indeed, perhaps we wouldn't mind though...like google? But if I could litter my view with a list of great artwork and architecture that some website compiled, perhaps an ad here or there would be worth it I am just imagineering here. "This wall brought to you be Sears"

And then imagine what will happen when every advertiser is competing for your attention by monetizing and infiltrating those interstitial spaces.>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Imagine with me a strange new future. A future were augmented reality replaces the normal. Were buildings are plane, with no wall paper and decorative niceties. Where all (much) fashion and art isn't physical, but displayed directly in your brain/retina. Why paint my wall when I can just change a setting in my AR homepage. Today, I want every display space of my path down to my work to be in the theme of Gothic, Classical, Newaged, or Blue! Reality is so yesterday, prepare for augmented reality.

Imagine with me a strange new future. A future were augmented reality replaces the normal. Were buildings are plane, with no wall paper and decorative niceties. Where all (much) fashion and art isn't physical, but displayed directly in your brain/retina. Why paint my wall when I can just change a setting in my AR homepage. Today, I want every display space of my path down to my work to be in the theme of Gothic, Classical, Newaged, or Blue! Reality is so yesterday, prepare for augmented reality.

augmented reality games should be like this within the next 5-10 years

the videogame reference is absolutely useless
there's nothing that could be gained from this technology in regular modern 'videogame', as the term stands today
the quality of output is way too low for anything usable
however, there's potentially huge uses for this in augmented reality applications and games
though, the technology isn't exactly new, and technology like the depth-camera for xbox kinect is already superior for implementing AR stuff (in non-xbox related context)

I thought the Move tracked the controllers only? I'll probably buy both in the end as I tend to cherry pick the best games from each system.

I wish Kinect could track finger-movements, but I'm gathering it doesn't. It would be amazing to punch in keycodes and manipulate objects... one day maybe.

>> ^teebeenz:

Wii controller knows where its pointing, which way its turned up and which way its moving, but not qwhere it is.
Kinect knows where you are and you body position (which they could have done with a single camera but sony owns that patent... not that I like patents), but has no buttons. It does have a camera tho of course which is useful.
Move knows where the controllers are, where you are, can track your face, body, any other augmented reality shapes and patterns and pretty much anything else a developers wants to track. It has a camera as well (and its own games for said camera), and buttons. IT can be adapted to work with pretty much anything.
In the end, the move isnt perfect but its the best of the lot. Kinect offers little more than the EYEToy (which has 1:1 and body tracking in later releases), and the Wii is that happy medium, where its sending enough data, but not to much.

Wii controller knows where its pointing, which way its turned up and which way its moving, but not qwhere it is.

Kinect knows where you are and you body position (which they could have done with a single camera but sony owns that patent... not that I like patents), but has no buttons. It does have a camera tho of course which is useful.

Move knows where the controllers are, where you are, can track your face, body, any other augmented reality shapes and patterns and pretty much anything else a developers wants to track. It has a camera as well (and its own games for said camera), and buttons. IT can be adapted to work with pretty much anything.

In the end, the move isnt perfect but its the best of the lot. Kinect offers little more than the EYEToy (which has 1:1 and body tracking in later releases), and the Wii is that happy medium, where its sending enough data, but not to much.

You could get around the problem of bending light through Augmented Reality data carried on a frequency that isn't bent by the "cloak". Still, that's a little different than turning invisible with no perceptual problems.

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While the tech is really cool- I've come to my senses and will now commence pummeling MS in my usual fashion, thusly (ahem):

This will be fantastic when the product guys make it run on Windows Live Hotmail® Passport™ Series SilverLight™ 2011® Ultimate Edition New with Bing™ Service Pack 11.


>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^dag:
That was very cool. Hat's off to Microsoft. (something I don't say often)

Quite big of you to say that, dag!