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Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know is there something similar to this in Android OS? How Google's plans are to explore the AR space?
Wasn't google tango their solution? (but requires custom android hardware for depth sensor) https://get.google.com/tango/ I haven't heard anything about them for a few years now. Visual-inertial SLAM has been working for a few years on mobile phones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bjsIqlbS0 So there should be plenty of third-party libraries you can use.
Apple already has the first mover advantage on this. Will be interesting to see how Google/Android will overcome it especially given they don't entirely control the hardware. They should at the very least add the necessary hardware in the next Pixel phone.
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#143ARKit. Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc. Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple he…
Why do you think AR will become a "thing"? Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? If you'd ask me, this idea could just as well end the same way as 3D TV.
I think its all about marketing when it comes to convincing people, nobody imagined computer phones and the idea would seem weird then, like why put a computer on your phone.
I think ARKit has potential, Pokemon Go is still big and Snapchat glasses has generated hype among people that don't identify the glasses with AR.
Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
#144The decentralized web built on top of Ethereum/Swarm/Whisper
Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
#145Edge computing. Basically shifting off of cloud onto separate peer-to-peer connections. Faster, more secure, more distributed, and no middleman. Think 1990s/mid 2000s but no servers, just client to client. Soon everyone will want a home server.
How would we implement a search-engine using P2P?
MY_PC: "Who is hosting a webpage with the following information?"
My 1000 connected peers: "Here are 500 more peers who say they do"
Proceed to witness extreme bandwidth usage every query.
Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know is there something similar to this in Android OS? How Google's plans are to explore the AR space?
Wasn't google tango their solution? (but requires custom android hardware for depth sensor) https://get.google.com/tango/ I haven't heard anything about them for a few years now. Visual-inertial SLAM has been working for a few years on mobile phones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bjsIqlbS0 So there should be plenty of third-party libraries you can use.
The beauty of it is that ARKit also requires somewhat specialized hardware. But since apple controls the hardware as well, they can pull it off much faster than the android eco-system ever will.
They solve the chicken and egg problem, having phones with the needed hardware before the apps/demand even exists.
Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
#147Excited may be too strong a word, but I'm interested in seeing how the world of decentralised apps evolve. I like the idea of decentralising the web using plug and play home servers. There are a few projects in this space already (such as Sandstorm) and there are some existing projects that aren't strictly limited to dapps but could play a key role in the future (a few unikernel and meshnet projects spring to mind).
IMHO the real bottle neck here is NAT, so I'd throw universal static ipv6 consumer adoption in with this.
Another bottleneck is the asymmetric up/download speed of most ISPs. Often upload is more than 10x slower than download.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It has so much economic potential that it hurts not being in the space already (working on that though) As someone not familiar with the area, could you elaborate on some examples of what you think the economic potential is? To an outsider like me, being able to overlay virtual objects on a scene seems like a nice curiosity, not particularly an engine for commerce. Edit: specifically, I was curious about areas wher…
Its to the smartphone what television was to radio. Adds a whole new dimension of information delivery. That's the financial advantage.
Huh? The smartphone added portability and (most importantly) two-way communication. AR adds... distraction, I guess?
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#149ARKit. Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc. Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple he…
ARKit seems like one of those technology breakthroughs that actually has gotten way less hype than you would think, but is legitimately a huge advancement.
All the hype I've seen has been about retail applications that consumers are not going to tolerate after the (minimal) novelty wears off, which is why I think it's being mostly ignored. I think the killer apps will be ones that make people better and faster at things they are strongly motivated to be better and faster at and/or are getting paid to do by someone who can buy the hardware and order them to use it.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would we implement a search-engine using P2P?
MY_PC: "Who is hosting a webpage with the following information?" My 1000 connected peers: "Here are 500 more peers who say they do" Proceed to witness extreme bandwidth usage every query.
That only works if the computer you're connecting to has an index of the entire web.
It will probably be more like this:
- So you're looking for "kitten videos"? Well, you can ask computer X for words starting with "k", then ask computer Y for words starting with "v", and then I'll perform a logical AND operation to get your final results.
But how we make this as fast as Google is beyond me.
And also don't forget that we have to factor in the problem of security (some nodes may be sending in wrong results, e.g. spam).