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With a system like the one in the video you walk through the old place, and walk through the new place, and output for example 2 Sweet Home 3d plan's.
No need to have 3d glasses for that.
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They still have to solve for: * How uncomfortable the headsets are to wear for long periods if time * How useless they are (what are they solution for?) * How ridiculous they look * How expensive they are * How expensive it is to produce content for After they solve these issues then I will worry about the dystopia we are in. VR headsets may look cool and futuristic in the movies but in reality they are just screens…
All of these (except maybe the "useless" part) are almost always solved by time (Moore's law)
The semantic understanding of the objects around you (without upload to a server).
A detailed set of actual meshes of the objects in your living and working spaces.
So much can be built on this key building block, to actually help people with their daily lives, low vision people are only one group that will see massive benefits.
I also think this technique could and should be extended generally into computer vision applications, understanding semantic meaning, volumes and masses via the often highly structured environments around us.
Starting from a principled position of meaning, volumes and meshes and then training to assign gaussian splats to those meshes seems like something clever people could solve a lot of problems with.
My feeling is the better approach is to train a generalized segmentation model, derive multi-parameter representations of those segmented ‘things’, derive embeddings from those things for compression purposes, then allow users to ‘tag’ or ‘label’ or ‘describe’ those things as a service to other users. Then we could choose whose language about the world we ‘subscribe’ to, and anyone could attach any digital payload to any real thing/person/place without anyone else’s help or permission.
I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
Wait, Snowcrash was horror for you? I thought the whole point of post-cyberpunk was to not assume all tech would be dystopian.
I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
> The Metaverse is not aspirational! Wait, Snowcrash was horror for you? I thought the whole point of post-cyberpunk was to not assume all tech would be dystopian.
This was a very important missing piece for mixed/augmented and virtual reality. The semantic understanding of the objects around you (without upload to a server). A detailed set of actual meshes of the objects in your living and working spaces. So much can be built on this key building block, to actually help people with their daily lives, low vision people are only one group that will see massive benefits. I also t…
> without upload to a server
Doesn't matter. If the app has to render them then it can still send them to the server. If the app does not render directly it can still infer them by doing collision testing against them. If it can't even check for collisions then there isn't much point in having the data in the first place.
It gets worse. The more you want AR/MR to understand the scene the more fine grained data you need. The camera sees things like: the underwear you left on the floor, the medicines/pills on your table, the posters on your wall, the bank account browser tab still on your computer screen, the adult toys you forgot to put away, your undressed body, your dressed body, your political baseball cap or t-shirt, your naked roommate/spouse/kids who just walked into the room.
I don't see how this can be solved in a trust-less way. In other words, you'll have to trust each and every individual AR/MR app you use, that they aren't spying on you. The platform/device/OS itself can not prevent this and still allow the majority of the AR/MR uses that people imagine.
This was a very important missing piece for mixed/augmented and virtual reality. The semantic understanding of the objects around you (without upload to a server). A detailed set of actual meshes of the objects in your living and working spaces. So much can be built on this key building block, to actually help people with their daily lives, low vision people are only one group that will see massive benefits. I also t…
A huge problem is privacy > without upload to a server Doesn't matter. If the app has to render them then it can still send them to the server. If the app does not render directly it can still infer them by doing collision testing against them. If it can't even check for collisions then there isn't much point in having the data in the first place. It gets worse. The more you want AR/MR to understand the scene the mor…
You can't be probusiness and pro-privacy at the same time though, you need to limit businesses in order to protect the people.