flaneur

michelb76 said:

Nah, this has been possible for years with QR codes, Shazam and similar apps. I have seen maybe 10-20 of these things and that was years ago. This reduces friction by just using your camera app, but then still, look how crap it is to view a video like that...Maybe if it allows the video to open in a normal player..

Rayz2016 said:

The ad industry will go mental for this … unfortunately. 

You're missing one very important point here.

Using the cameras to detect objects, shapes and patterns for the AR software — that turns the whole real world into one big QR code.

ihatescreennames said:

flaneur said:

bulk001 said:

I am in the market for a new iPad as my current one is four years old and slow. As someone mentioned though, is this what it has all come to - placing furniture into a live scene? Remember when wearables at CES were the next great thing in fashion and lifestyle that was going to change everything? Or 3D TV was going to change the way we consumed media? For all the billions spent by these big companies I was hoping for a little more I guess. Till it does I’ll buy furniture the old fashioned wayand go to a furniture store and try stuff out. Who is using AI successfully right now? Big businesses where I suspect were we are the furniture! I will probably wait another year before upgrading I guess. 

I hope you read @Firelock's post above. I think drawing on top of pages or images in real time and projecting this to a live audience qualifies as an excelkent use case of augmented reality.

edit: maybe "human-augmented reality" if you want to split hairs about it.

Huh? I’m confused how @Firelock’s comment is an example of AR. I thought AR meant using the device’s camera to view the reality around you and then augmenting it somehow (like by inanely dropping virtual furniture into a park). Firelock’s examples, to me, read as if documents are being marked up in real-time and projected. Doesn’t come off as AR to me, but is still a great use of the iPad. 

Maybe I’m just not understanding what AR is supposed to be. 

fastasleep said:

flaneur said:

bulk001 said:

I am in the market for a new iPad as my current one is four years old and slow. As someone mentioned though, is this what it has all come to - placing furniture into a live scene? Remember when wearables at CES were the next great thing in fashion and lifestyle that was going to change everything? Or 3D TV was going to change the way we consumed media? For all the billions spent by these big companies I was hoping for a little more I guess. Till it does I’ll buy furniture the old fashioned wayand go to a furniture store and try stuff out. Who is using AI successfully right now? Big businesses where I suspect were we are the furniture! I will probably wait another year before upgrading I guess. 

I hope you read @Firelock's post above. I think drawing on top of pages or images in real time and projecting this to a live audience qualifies as an excelkent use case of augmented reality.

edit: maybe "human-augmented reality" if you want to split hairs about it.

This is not an example of AR, by any stretch. Also not sure why AI is getting thrown in here as well, that also has nothing to do with this. 

This is why I added the edit "human-augmented reality," to make it clearer that I'm stretching the conventional concept of AR as machine or AI-augmented reality. 

The very conventional concept, I want to say. Use your imagination here for a minute. What we're taliking about with AR is the ability to use the computer in real time to overlay information, whether data or images, over "reality," which we usually think of as a real-time picture of the world as captured by that same computer. 

The data or image overlay can come from anywhere, including the Internet or the brain of the person holding the device, doesn't matter, as long as the Reality is being Augmentd, seems to me. The portable, large-sceen iPad with Pencil input, maybe with voice input too, plus some sort of markup app, seems uniquely suited to be a device for annotating a view of reality in real time.

bulk001 said:

I am in the market for a new iPad as my current one is four years old and slow. As someone mentioned though, is this what it has all come to - placing furniture into a live scene? Remember when wearables at CES were the next great thing in fashion and lifestyle that was going to change everything? Or 3D TV was going to change the way we consumed media? For all the billions spent by these big companies I was hoping for a little more I guess. Till it does I’ll buy furniture the old fashioned wayand go to a furniture store and try stuff out. Who is using AI successfully right now? Big businesses where I suspect were we are the furniture! I will probably wait another year before upgrading I guess. 

I hope you read @Firelock's post above. I think drawing on top of pages or images in real time and projecting this to a live audience qualifies as an excelkent use case of augmented reality.

edit: maybe "human-augmented reality" if you want to split hairs about it.

I suspect the user interface might need some cleaning up.

In the first picture, "Upload To Cloud" must be a button, but it doesn't look like a button. Also, it just looks wrong in any instruction or title to capitalize a preposition like "to". They should use all caps or follow normal style.

Also, what's with the wide-angle fisheye lens? Is this normal for dashcams? It creeps me out visually — it turns every scene into a crime scene, meaning you can't watch your footage just as a record of your travels.

Bloomberg reveals again how shabby and amateurish it is. Here's the lede paragraph:

"Apple Inc. looks like it’s having a not-so Merry Christmas."

Really, Bloomberg?

NPR reports this morning that Apple stock is down after "reports of lackluster sales."

Stupidity reigns. The Bloomberg article is unsigned, but Gurman should be ashamed to work there anyway.