Referring to that last blog about how to do for yourself things that need doing damning everyone else and learning to not feel bad about it....
I'm taking the bus these days instead of driving. This gives me time to read.. I haven't read anything in a while.
I'm reading Spook Country by William Gibson. If I haven't mentioned it, I like his writing style because in his earlier stuff (Virtual Light) I saw the same stuff I was and want to write about. Spooky really how similar it is.. geek stuff.
Now Spook Country is so weird though.. I was thinking it is comfortably warm in color but no heat, at the beginning at least. It's finally starting to reach the page turner stage as the geek stuff comes together but I don't understand or care about the other characters.. or what they are doing.. like I want to skip 2/3 of the story because it isn't geek related..
Anyhow.. the geek stuff that the book is talking about is as usual dear to my heart because it is something that isn't popular yet but could be.
I don't want to ruin anything but the main concept is Virtual Reality. But not a buzz word so much as an implementation of it that is already happening.
What happens in the real world, Augmented Reality, is something that is getting VERY hot for geeks, or at least more mainstream because it is actually useful.
Augment Reality is overlaying information on real things like a map. If you've even used street view on maps.google.com, just think of it as street view with all kinds of website-like information over real landmarks. The hot mainstream application of Augment Reality is iPhone and apps that can display information on GPS based maps in realtime.
Meaning with GPS the phone knows where you are in the world, with tip sensors the phone knows where it is in the world in terms of orientation, if the screen is upside down, tipped at a certain angle, like pointed at the ground a storefront or the sky. Using iPhone as a window and screen you can see the world with pertinent information that updates in realtime.
That information for the most part works with landmarks, but in time anything can have an IP assigned to it and post it's location and information for anyone to see in Augmented Reality.
Say someone is reading a book, that book would have a small RFID-like tag (for short range presence). Your AR device would pick up that tag and ask the internet for more information about it, which could be displayed in realtime somewhere visibly near that book. If it's as simple as pulling ip the ISBN and linking to the authors webpage, or as complex as the author's head popping up and talking to you about the book.. or critics.. bloggers etc.. all that information exists online already.. it's just access and presentation.
What the book talks about is talking about is using visors laptops and googles... which is the more traditional Ideal.. but it would only mean extra immersion and resolution but the concept is exactly the same. But iPhone and other 'smart' mobile devices are just as useful.
So seeing that people might actually start wearing bluetooth glasses for 3D in the coming couple of years.. it might not be long before glasses contacts with high resolution screens on them will finally start popping up.. that geek fantasy of Matrix vision will finally come true. Although Matrix is a poor example of Augmented Reality. Instead if you think about what you see on the screen when you play Mass Effect 2.. the windows around everything and holographic crap floating around everywhere.. it doesn't need a physical projection.. all that crap can be accomplished on a screen (or two for 3D).
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/contact-lenses-transmit-computer-images-and-data-directly-into-the-eyes/
I'm wondering what Johnny Everyday would do with them? Augmented Reality maps is nice, and the book mentions locative blogging.. People would look at something and post a blog with GPS coordinates on it (IP address, MAC address, GPS coordinates, date stamp). You'd only be able to see the blog in its context.. meaning if you are walking around and like something, like a movie, you might post a blog and hang it in front of a movie theater.. people walking by who can access this media would be able to see your post without visiting a website.. it's just there, in context.. seconds away from the person actually doing what you're talking about or seeing what you're talking about.
Consider that taken to an extreme of a novel written in Augmented Reality pages that you access as you take a stroll down the street? A Reality TV show that you have to actually go somewhere to see it happenning pseudo live. Or as described in the book.. a scene like a photgraph or replaying something notable that happened in the past (what museums used to be for).
This thing happened here.. looksee
This person wants to meet you at this place.. exactly this spot.. they'd eventually find themselves there but BE there virtually until they physically got there.. meat lag? or some other euphamism.
So taking this perspective I'm wondering about two things..
Fucking people and their god damned cell phones.
I honestly don't give a shit about your life.. why broadcast that shit to everyone in earshot?! don't people care about privacy?
In a sense no because most of the time you don't understand the context of a conversation and you're only getting half of it.
This should be applicable to people just talking in public too. I don't care about your conversation... it is time people were able to keep their conversations private.
This should be applicable to people just talking in public too. I don't care about your conversation... it is time people were able to keep their conversations private. Or erase them from your vision? (slightly dangerous.. visually muting everyone out that you don't want to see.. pasting another face on them like a happy face (GiTS hacker logo))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shell)
so, 1, what if people were able to speak directly into media (wireless in this case) without vocalizing? Whatever they want to comminucate just appears as AR text near them. So only the person they are talking to needs to benefit or be suffered whatever they are trying to say.
and, 2, what if people depended on Augmented Reality to chat but broadcasted everything they were saying? So ignoring the possibility of being private they broadcast everything they already do in AR to everyone nearby.
Where another benefit of AR is infinite line of sight. You might not be able to see something, but it is marked in AR if you're looking in that general direction. This makes finding something easier.. not to mention driving (don't go this way because there is traffic or an accident you can't see without your eyes).
The thing that came to mind was chatting in Augmented Reality such that words would appear in front of you and the other person would be reading them. Assuming they had glasses or contacts that let them see Augmented Reality stuff in real time. Where not only would you be posting text in that medium but you could tag things. Like we're going here.. and draw a virtual line for everyone to follow. You can't get lost because everyone would follow that line and have other lines pointing out stuff they should be paying attention to.. putting boxes around people with their profiles and stuff you should know.. in real time.
This would be abused of course by advertisers but what can you really do?
Yeah.. the next decade is going to really interesting if stuff like this (multi-gigahertz mobile processing and gigabit wireless bandwidth) start trickling into every day life.. as well as 3D displays (glasses free), with Augmented Reality overlays.
The only things that is missing is being able to convert thought into a UI. That person that comes up with a way to talk through a device without using your mouth, just with the power of thought will make billions.
That's the real enabling NUI that is missing. Either by having a virtual hand (by armbands that work like those for amputies to pick up brain signals to arm nerves (to control a virtual keyboard without actually moving the muscles)) to type on virtual keyboards or thoughts to be directly sampled (hopefully without messy implants). Will people need to wear dorky headbands? or glasses with a band that goes all the way around the head?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface
I'm partial to the arm thing because that too already exists. Where all tens fingers could be sampled to control a virtual keyboard.. it would just need to be combined with a headset or other device (iPhone or iPad).
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Micrsoft-Muscle-Censor-Gaming,9340.html
But even you might not need all those nerves in the arm.. any nerves will do. You'd just need to train yourself to activate them. I'd imagine that would be like learning to touch type all over again.
Consider using peripheral nerves on your head (near the arms of your glasses).. would using them this way make them bigger (more blood flow)? hmm.. all bulgy brain hideousness... Would be worth it if you could control the internet with your mind...
I'm taking the bus these days instead of driving. This gives me time to read.. I haven't read anything in a while.
I'm reading Spook Country by William Gibson. If I haven't mentioned it, I like his writing style because in his earlier stuff (Virtual Light) I saw the same stuff I was and want to write about. Spooky really how similar it is.. geek stuff.
Now Spook Country is so weird though.. I was thinking it is comfortably warm in color but no heat, at the beginning at least. It's finally starting to reach the page turner stage as the geek stuff comes together but I don't understand or care about the other characters.. or what they are doing.. like I want to skip 2/3 of the story because it isn't geek related..
Anyhow.. the geek stuff that the book is talking about is as usual dear to my heart because it is something that isn't popular yet but could be.
I don't want to ruin anything but the main concept is Virtual Reality. But not a buzz word so much as an implementation of it that is already happening.
What happens in the real world, Augmented Reality, is something that is getting VERY hot for geeks, or at least more mainstream because it is actually useful.
Augment Reality is overlaying information on real things like a map. If you've even used street view on maps.google.com, just think of it as street view with all kinds of website-like information over real landmarks. The hot mainstream application of Augment Reality is iPhone and apps that can display information on GPS based maps in realtime.
Meaning with GPS the phone knows where you are in the world, with tip sensors the phone knows where it is in the world in terms of orientation, if the screen is upside down, tipped at a certain angle, like pointed at the ground a storefront or the sky. Using iPhone as a window and screen you can see the world with pertinent information that updates in realtime.
That information for the most part works with landmarks, but in time anything can have an IP assigned to it and post it's location and information for anyone to see in Augmented Reality.
Say someone is reading a book, that book would have a small RFID-like tag (for short range presence). Your AR device would pick up that tag and ask the internet for more information about it, which could be displayed in realtime somewhere visibly near that book. If it's as simple as pulling ip the ISBN and linking to the authors webpage, or as complex as the author's head popping up and talking to you about the book.. or critics.. bloggers etc.. all that information exists online already.. it's just access and presentation.
What the book talks about is talking about is using visors laptops and googles... which is the more traditional Ideal.. but it would only mean extra immersion and resolution but the concept is exactly the same. But iPhone and other 'smart' mobile devices are just as useful.
So seeing that people might actually start wearing bluetooth glasses for 3D in the coming couple of years.. it might not be long before glasses contacts with high resolution screens on them will finally start popping up.. that geek fantasy of Matrix vision will finally come true. Although Matrix is a poor example of Augmented Reality. Instead if you think about what you see on the screen when you play Mass Effect 2.. the windows around everything and holographic crap floating around everywhere.. it doesn't need a physical projection.. all that crap can be accomplished on a screen (or two for 3D).
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/contact-lenses-transmit-computer-images-and-data-directly-into-the-eyes/
I'm wondering what Johnny Everyday would do with them? Augmented Reality maps is nice, and the book mentions locative blogging.. People would look at something and post a blog with GPS coordinates on it (IP address, MAC address, GPS coordinates, date stamp). You'd only be able to see the blog in its context.. meaning if you are walking around and like something, like a movie, you might post a blog and hang it in front of a movie theater.. people walking by who can access this media would be able to see your post without visiting a website.. it's just there, in context.. seconds away from the person actually doing what you're talking about or seeing what you're talking about.
Consider that taken to an extreme of a novel written in Augmented Reality pages that you access as you take a stroll down the street? A Reality TV show that you have to actually go somewhere to see it happenning pseudo live. Or as described in the book.. a scene like a photgraph or replaying something notable that happened in the past (what museums used to be for).
This thing happened here.. looksee
This person wants to meet you at this place.. exactly this spot.. they'd eventually find themselves there but BE there virtually until they physically got there.. meat lag? or some other euphamism.
So taking this perspective I'm wondering about two things..
Fucking people and their god damned cell phones.
I honestly don't give a shit about your life.. why broadcast that shit to everyone in earshot?! don't people care about privacy?
In a sense no because most of the time you don't understand the context of a conversation and you're only getting half of it.
This should be applicable to people just talking in public too. I don't care about your conversation... it is time people were able to keep their conversations private.
This should be applicable to people just talking in public too. I don't care about your conversation... it is time people were able to keep their conversations private. Or erase them from your vision? (slightly dangerous.. visually muting everyone out that you don't want to see.. pasting another face on them like a happy face (GiTS hacker logo))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shell)
so, 1, what if people were able to speak directly into media (wireless in this case) without vocalizing? Whatever they want to comminucate just appears as AR text near them. So only the person they are talking to needs to benefit or be suffered whatever they are trying to say.
and, 2, what if people depended on Augmented Reality to chat but broadcasted everything they were saying? So ignoring the possibility of being private they broadcast everything they already do in AR to everyone nearby.
Where another benefit of AR is infinite line of sight. You might not be able to see something, but it is marked in AR if you're looking in that general direction. This makes finding something easier.. not to mention driving (don't go this way because there is traffic or an accident you can't see without your eyes).
The thing that came to mind was chatting in Augmented Reality such that words would appear in front of you and the other person would be reading them. Assuming they had glasses or contacts that let them see Augmented Reality stuff in real time. Where not only would you be posting text in that medium but you could tag things. Like we're going here.. and draw a virtual line for everyone to follow. You can't get lost because everyone would follow that line and have other lines pointing out stuff they should be paying attention to.. putting boxes around people with their profiles and stuff you should know.. in real time.
This would be abused of course by advertisers but what can you really do?
Yeah.. the next decade is going to really interesting if stuff like this (multi-gigahertz mobile processing and gigabit wireless bandwidth) start trickling into every day life.. as well as 3D displays (glasses free), with Augmented Reality overlays.
The only things that is missing is being able to convert thought into a UI. That person that comes up with a way to talk through a device without using your mouth, just with the power of thought will make billions.
That's the real enabling NUI that is missing. Either by having a virtual hand (by armbands that work like those for amputies to pick up brain signals to arm nerves (to control a virtual keyboard without actually moving the muscles)) to type on virtual keyboards or thoughts to be directly sampled (hopefully without messy implants). Will people need to wear dorky headbands? or glasses with a band that goes all the way around the head?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface
I'm partial to the arm thing because that too already exists. Where all tens fingers could be sampled to control a virtual keyboard.. it would just need to be combined with a headset or other device (iPhone or iPad).
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Micrsoft-Muscle-Censor-Gaming,9340.html
But even you might not need all those nerves in the arm.. any nerves will do. You'd just need to train yourself to activate them. I'd imagine that would be like learning to touch type all over again.
Consider using peripheral nerves on your head (near the arms of your glasses).. would using them this way make them bigger (more blood flow)? hmm.. all bulgy brain hideousness... Would be worth it if you could control the internet with your mind...