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Alex Ledante asked me a great question or had a great comment about Augmented Reality and Virtual vs. screens vs. projection and holograms. I answered the comment, but frankly, it is a bit more involved than the space for a comment. So, I am addressing the comment in a blog Alex’s original question “I expect that direct interface will ultimately phase out all peripherals, but do you think we will go projection and then holograms or in a more AR/VR direction?”
Let’s talk about three pieces of Alex’s question.
- Direction connection (that would be a monitor with a cable connected to a computer0
- Protector either standard image or Hologram
- VR/AR
First, there is the question of size. Monitors tend to be less portable. Projectors used to be less portable but now the newest projectors are around the size of a 12 ounce can of soda. The last piece is the AR and VR goggles. VR goggles don’t work with movement. You tend to either sit, lie or be motionless. The reason for that is the VR goggles are immersive. The AR googles like Hololens are made for interaction with the: a real world so you can move around.
Alex’s question, however, was more focused on projectors vs. AR goggles and projectors + Holographic images, vs. VR and AR goggles. His question was which one did I think was going to take over. I am going to cheat. Because I don’t think one of the four potential options will take over. I believe that AR headsets such as Hololens will get smaller. They will, eventually include outbound projection as well as the existing inbound imaging. So the answer Alex is that I believe a projection AR headset will be the next big thing! In fairness, the headsets have to get smaller. My gut is they have to be comfortable enough that you can wear them all day. They have to be powerful enough to be able to project in a lighted room (for the projection). They would need to have two 180 degree cameras mounted on the sides (temple of the person) of the device to cover enough space.
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Question of
Do you still have a monitor at home?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Is your monitor also a TV?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Do you project (Chromecast) or do you use cable connection to use the monitor?
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Yes
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No
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One more super tech survey + look at our very possible fully automated future, just great!!!
Thank you so much! The future is always interesting!
First, I only report comments that are copied or ones that say awesome post……… if yours were there on one of my posts then yes I reported you.
I should also report this comment because it has nothing to do with my post, but I won’t. I am sorry you are losing Virils.
Good Luck.
I don’t ever report comments that are not on my posts so I suspect you should check that.
I’ve had 10-20 comments reported over the last month or so. Based on that should I blame you?
I don’t comment on your posts, and I don’t ever report comments not on my posts.
I do understand your concern – as expressed above I have run into that as well. In fact, I’ve seen an uptick in downvoting and comment reporting on the site.
But just so that there is no confusion I do not report comments that are not on my posts. I do report comments on my post and i have stated my rationale publically.
I do report comments on other posts.
As for your negative posts, I don’t read them.
sorry that was I do not report comments on other posts.
I do report comments on my posts that are nice——
or that are directly copied either from another post or from other comments on my post.
Just to be clear – I have several comments that have been reported in the past two weeks – I should assume that is you?
My apologies as that was a typo. No edit button for comments. I do not care about comments made on other posts. I only report comments on my posts. Based on that, I’ve had a number of comments reported, the admin team actually reached out to me and blocked one person because they were copying comments from other people on my posts and commenting on the post. I reported them, and they reported my comments 4 times.
Again, I only report comments on my posts.
Wasn’t me, you don’t comment on my posts overall so I wouldn’t run into the comments.
I knew because I track my Virily for my overall infulencer list. Knowing how many are generated and who is generating them for me is something I am working on.
I wanted to know which readers on Virily moved my posts the most (brought other viewers with them.)
Over the course of 10 days I watched posts, tracked the views based on changes and came up with some interesting information.
I shared that with the community, the 7 folks that when they read your blog, you tend to see more views.
It was a lot of work, and there is still a huge amount of error (I would say as much and 20%) but the overall numbers are pretty decent.
Ah – you don’t track on Virily only. I can pull my stats from twitter to determine my influence.
As for guest views, you don’t get credit for them but in fact, the views on your post increase when guests view. So you can track guest views by simply testing and verifying that the number does increase by non-registered readers viewing your posts.
As I said, I collected numbers that showed significant influence. I doubt my numbers are off by a lot, they are off a little I am sure. But overall i have a high degree of confidence in my overall model.
Badges are interesting. I haven’t seen my badges change in a long time. I guess I don’t really know.
My gut is approved comments are ones that the author liked versus just replied to, I have that badge, but as I said I haven’t gotten a new badge in a long time.
This reply is in response to all your questions: (other than badges answered separately).
1. Yes, views increase when someone opens the post. It doesn’t matter if they are a Virily Verified User, Virily User or Guest. Each person opening the post increases your view count by 1.
2. Since you get paid for views, eventually, the influencers are the ones that bring the three types of views to your posts. There are a number of authors that average 100 or more views per post. There are authors that when they comment, they bring other Virily users after them. If you watch the top comment posts every day you will see a consistent set of authors in that list.
3. Your assumption that the views number is incorrect is interesting. I suspect, based on that assumption that is why you don’t watch that number.
4. Guest views used to be given one for one. now you get credit for one (original share via social media). In part, this was removed because it caused huge site performance problems. In part and in theory you also had to separate guest views.
When I share one of Alex’s or Alberts posts, I get credit for one. They then get credit for anyone on social media that clicks my shared link. I get credit for the first one. Tying that together, in other words as long as my social share is active on the social site, giving me credit for future clicks is what caused the performance issue.
The last part was removed during the cheating issue on the site around 10 months ago. If you consider this, I also share my posts on social media, and for a time was getting double Virils. I got credit for the guest view, and for the view of my post. I still get credit for the view, but not the double credit I was getting before, that is fair.
You can probably understand now, why it matters that the site tracks or doesn’t track guest views. Every day I probably share 30-35 posts on social media. As an influencer, I drive between 200 and 1000 guest views a day. my rate of earning would be more than 5000 virils a week just for guest views I generate. Or 20,000 every month just for guest views.
I am not sure there is a lot of value arguing with you, but I will try.
You get credit for 1 guest view per social share. That limit came into being many months ago. when you make the social share, you receive one credit. You get one for each share of unique posts.
That is different from views by guests.
A guest is a non-registered Virily user. There is no limit on views. There is a limit on the double credit (you only get double credit once).
So effectively what am I wrong about? I said the same thing all times. If you separate the two – sharing credit for guest views you get one. views, you get credit for.
As for why track influencers, it is because knowing who helps your posts gain views is useful. There are people who reply and comment, that bring other readers with them.
There are others that comment but don’t really bring other readers.
I certainly understand your opinion.
There are four writers on Virily who comment on things and other virily authors follow them. You are most welcome to argue that fact, but please provide statistics that show that isn’t the case.
Don’t want an opinion, interesting and long but doesn’t change the fact that I spent a lot of time watching and viewing who was touching posts.
I got 10 coworkers to do me a favor, once a day over 10 days with my posts and other posts. I sent them a link (not on social but directly) and then while I was watching, had them log into and read the link i sent.
Somewhere my posts, some were posts of other people. In ALL cases the numbers changed by 10 views.
I read and watched a number of posts over 5 different weekends. I did not comment on those posts and watched the posts change with specific people preparing and commenting.
I noted significant change when specific authors commented on a post. In fact, there are four authors who consistently either have a post in the top comment section on Virily or their comments drive the posts of others into that list.
The top comment list is reset every day. So these people are creating and driving content that over Virily authors read Every day.
You aren’t going to change my mind with an opinion. Give me some facts that show me what I tested isn’t true.
You completely misread what I said. I don’t have time to explain this to you. I posted about it awhile.
Honestly, if you don’t like what i posted, don’t read it. Or do you own study and come up with other answers.
I watched the top 20 people that post on Virily, I saw their min and max posts. I checked and verified that i had a trend (average per day). Then i changed how I interacted with their posts. In all cases, it made a difference.
Since i answered NO to all your questions, are you going to send me samples of those to review?
sadly I do not have a supply of any of them to send. Nice though, made me laugh this morning.
tsk tsk tsk.. i thought i can Jedi-ish you to send me freebies. tsk… i need to practice more.
Those are hot the Freebies you are looking for 🙂
i will practice that Jedi-ism. haha
There is no try, or practice.
There is only do.
You know me, I want direct interface and failing that, retinal projection. Since neither of those fields is seriously being researched as far as I know, I figured monitors would be replaced with an existing tech… but I didn’t consider hybrids!
Well, Alex, you got me thinking as always with an awesome question. A hybrid solution in my eyes would be the next step.
In fact, my gut is your supervisor would probably have one, rather than the tablet for system review and control.
but then we couldn’t see her eyes
Actually, the AR headset has clear “screens” in front of the persons eyes so you would still see the eyes.
or we could just give her a holographic projector like they had in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Sounds even better. I suspect in the future supervisors in manufacturing won’t have tablets.
I wonder how much of this tech we will live to see
Honestly, it will depend. My gut is the majority of this type of tech will be available in the next 10, 12 years.
then we should still be around, assuming the world is still habitable by then
This is a very professional post for me. Nevertheless, I read it gladly. I do not know when this information can come to me right.
Thank you! It came from Alex’s question. It is a topic he and I have been discussing for the past month in various other posts.
Yes, I remember, but nothing can hurt if we hear it repeatedly ?
It is one of those things you have to get out of your system! Thanks!!!
Interesting looking ahead to technology, I like the idea of a hologram best because you don’t need a headset.
This coming generation is quickly going to become deaf and I am now suspicious of technology that logs you into ear plugs and goggles.
I think to look and hear something like a hologram is much more healthier to the body.
Interesting point of thinking Pam,. I suspect that newer technology will empower intelligent volume control. That would allow users to not damage their ears.
Holograms would still require a projector of some sort. But, I do agree that there would be less impact.