Augmented Reality A Go!

[Warped]

QPC's Articulated Naturality Web looks to one up augmented reality

We've already heard QderoPateo Communications (or QPC) talk up its notion of "articulated naturality" on smartphones, but it looks like the company has really gone all out for the World Economic Forum's recent Summer Davos Conference. That's where the company laid out its ambitious vision for an "Articulated Naturality Web," which promises to take the concept of augmented reality to a whole new level. Described as a "complete renaissance in the way we approach technology," the system would let you check hotel room availability simply by looking at the outside of the hotel, try out different furniture in an empty office space, look at items from a museum before you go inside, and get a weather forecast just by looking at the sky, to name just a few possibilities. Ambitious to be sure, but is it actually attainable in the near future? We certainly hope so. Head on past the break for the video.

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Well I knew they were making one, and I'm sure many companies are out there running to get the head start but this seems pretty cool. Also talk about a virtual Sandbox IRL

 

[Banana]

This is fascinating and kinda scary to me. I mean, it changes pretty much everything. Perhaps someday we'll all see the world like that.

 

[Ren.182]

I want that shit in my eye now.

 

[evil^milk]

Perhaps someday we'll all see the world like that.

This. I mean, isn't it pretty much inevitable?

 

[Stigmata]

Pretty much. I can't imagine that not happening. It's too useful and too convenient to remain a niche technology.

 

[Ravioli]

Great now i can get ads spammed to me directly in my god damn eyeball. ****ing love technology.

 

[Shakermaker]

Isn't this already a reality? It looks a lot like Wikitude with added web functionality.

 

[Remus]

Great now i can get ads spammed to me directly in my god damn eyeball. ****ing love technology.

Isn't this technology still a relatively bulky head set? I figure it would take maybe another decade or so of development before you'd have stuff like electronic contact lenses.

Also like you can turn off the annoying assistant in Office, I'm sure you'll be able to turn this off if you don't like to be bombarded with information about everything you look at.

 

[Warped]

Isn't this technology still a relatively bulky head set? I figure it would take maybe another decade or so of development before you'd have stuff like electronic contact lenses.

Also like you can turn off the annoying assistant in Office, I'm sure you'll be able to turn this off if you don't like to be bombarded with information about everything you look at.

I'm 9000% sure that electronic contact lenses are being developed and prototyped as we speak.

edit: YUP!

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uow-clw011708.php

 

[Bad^Hat]

Looks ****ing annoying. I can only assume that's a mock up and they're still developing the actual tech.

 

[Remus]

Looks ****ing annoying.

Like I said, it could be useful but only if you need the information. Otherwise it would get old fast. So an on and off switch is a must.

 

[MJ12]

Just what I wanted, now I can have 70% of my vision cluttered with digital advertisements.

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[Raziaar]

 

[Avoidist]

Time for some iScream

 

[JUL3]

This looks pretty damn awesome. Oh how I love the future, or more specifically how dumb lazy people like me take advantage of smart people's technology!

 

[Remus]

Oh how I love the future

The future is now. Well almost.

Anyway when it comes to future technology possibilities I'm really getting tired of people saying: "Nah that's silly", or "That's wishful thinking, it will never work".

To quote Arthur C. Clarke: "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

 

[Sulkdodds]

The idea is possible, maybe even soon, but the idea is fluff. I mean I can well imagine that it won't be long before we can have flat labels overlaid onto a view in a fairly abstract fashion. But labels cleaving perfectly to the forms of buildings? The camera having actual and instant spatial awareness? Somehow I can't see it looking that cool for a good long while. Not to mention that I'm not quite sure of the mechanism by which it knows what it's looking at - especially when it comes to specific buildings in the midst of some drab, murky city. Maybe GPS, pre-loaded shape recognition and the process of elimination will help with that.

Obviously it'll happen, but I ain't holding my breath, nor trusting these flashy, nuclear-dawn-assed mountebanks to achieve it.