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Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by jedberg »

Jach wrote: post #180
jedberg wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? Absolutely! If I could wear some regular looking glasses that could identify objects, give me directions, etc, I would totally wear them. I'm really good with faces, in that I can see someone after a long time and know that I know them, but I'm really bad with names, so I can never remember their name. If I could have glasses that looked in…

If the glasses can name people from your contacts, it's only one more step to name and recognize everyone it can including strangers, including showing any related info like reddit aliases (known and suspected), reputation in some reputation tracker or even criminal history, favorite alcoholic beverages and other interests to help with dating... enough people don't want that so they'll ban AR devices and punch out pe…

At one point there was an Android app that could identify strangers. They nerfed it so that it couldn't do that anymore. I'm sure they could do the same for the glasses.

But yeah, that's why it would have to be real subtle.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by dabockster »

amelius wrote: post #139
dabockster wrote: post #129

Edge 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?

Obviously, edge computing won't work for every use case. But it could get us off this obsession with tying everything into a centralized server that you have no control over. /rant

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by goatlover »

uyhso8 wrote: post #173
goatlover wrote: post #80

Crystal & Julia 1.0. Crystal because it's a blazing fast, compiled and statically typed version of Ruby (or 80% anyway), and it's web server is awesome. Now it just needs full concurrency. Julia because it offers a nice, performant alternative to Python & R in data science, while avoiding Java & C++. It has some really nice features like multiple dispatch and the ability to run R, Python, Fortran and C code inside of…

Not trying to be a troll, but... I was on the Julia train full-force until I started using it more heavily. My sense is that the benchmarks are a little misleading. These benchmarks give a little flavor of what I'm talking about: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks If you look at them, you'll see that Julia is indeed crazy fast in some cases. But in other cases, the performance is kind of middling. The native thread…

I see, thanks for that info on Julia's performance.

As for OOP, I feel like that's more a matter of preference. I don't buy the functional is better (generally speaking not specific situations where it might be). But I could be wrong, I just don't see evidence, only anecdotal claims by fans of functional programming (which doesn't mean they're wrong only that I'm not convinced). To be fair, they have arguments against OOP in favor of functional, but I'm not personally sold. Or maybe I just like Ruby and it's approach to OOP.

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Post by robotresearcher »

amelius wrote: post #136
allpratik wrote: post #83

ARKit. 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 already wear glasses all the time. Lots of tradespeople wear eye protection all the time.

I don't think I've seen the killer app yet, but if it's awesome, wearing glasses won't be too much of a problem once they become slim and light.

I don't want to carry a big flat phone in my pocket, but its worth it.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by tootie »

allpratik wrote: post #83

ARKit. 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 is impressive, but AR is a solution looking for a problem. I don't foresee it becoming really useful anytime soon.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by rb808 »

Jackalopiate wrote: post #32
Numberwang wrote: post #16

There are rumors of phones with batteries lasting longer than 5hrs. I'm still not sure if true or not but when it happens it will revolutionize what you use your phone for. It may even replace the watch completely some day. Obviously I insist they still need to be as thin as they are now. That is much much more important than batteries.

? I get at least 10 hours out of my Pixel on a daily basis, what rumor are you talking about?

Try again in 6 months.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by mncharity »

allpratik wrote: post #83

ARKit. 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…

Yes, ARKit.

With 3D hand tracking and gesture recognition.[1] When the new Clay SDK releases (RSN?)[2], I expect a new wave of ARKit demos.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9wgHkIucs&start=43 [2] http://claytheworld.com/news/

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by robotresearcher »

gaius wrote: post #78
subhrm wrote: post #23

I am excited about both WebGL & Web assembly. Although both of these have been around for a few years, we are yet to see a general adaptation of these. (might be due to inconsistent browser support). Now with the rise of VR, 3d Printing, powerful GPUs these two technologies are bound to open new avenues of an immersive browsing experience. I imagine that in next few years we would have 1- Webs stores, that show a vir…

We were excited about VRML in the 90s...

In the 90s we were also excited about the internet and mobile phones. We had just stopped being excited about neural networks.

Things mature at different rates.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by mabbo »

Animats wrote: post #95

Self-driving cars that really work and are safe. Google/Waymo is just about there. Automatic language translation everywhere. Big Brother everywhere. (Excited about, yes; happy about, no.) Batteries + solar as the predominant energy source. Electric cars getting some real market share.

> Google/Waymo is just about there

Those video by Cruise (GM owned) make me think they are here now. We're just waiting on laws to catch up.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by robotresearcher »

k__ wrote: post #89
spyspy wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iron Man style AR has so much more consumer potential than VR imo. Being able to get real-time info about the world around me without having to wave my phone around would be killer.

Isn't the big problem there holograms and not AR?

If you are looking through glasses, holograms become relatively easy.
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