DocAndersen
The explosion of AR/VR capabilities is on the horizon now. The business application of AR is tremendous. The easy button, fastest deployment, is education. Every classroom should have the AstroReality products (Earth, Moon and Solar System) in the classroom for interaction. But museums, which for years have struggled with having enough people to share the great stories are also big winners with AR. Technicians, people that fix and solve specific problems greatly benefit from AR. That is the thing that many people didn’t think was critical in the Apple Product monuments of early September. The changes for the A12 chip that has the most impact was the addition of additional graphics processing.
It is all about processing graphics when you consider AR/VR solutions. In particular, faster processing allows the phone to act as a great AR client. It means that graphics capability is going to be pushed harder tomorrow than it has been in the past few years. The amount of data and how you embed that data becomes critical. The barcode or QR code doesn’t contain the data. IT contains a web link to the information. The graphics processing is both connecting to a web page, after redirection, and then presenting that information. The information, be it video or audio is streamed from the remote location, but the local device has to be able to process that information fast enough.
All of this said the phone of today can handle AR. It is fully capable of delivering the overall experience. What you gain is the ability to have more and more content. The line between AR/VR can be blurred with more processing power. One of my favorite types of VR implementation is the interactive real-world experience. There is one, that truly is interesting the VR helicopter tour of Las Vegas. It is a real helicopter tour, but in the VR world, you can do a lot more. The other interesting VR/AR merge is the tour of the Apollo 11 capsule It is a real world (AR) application of a virtual experience (VR) and the merger is really quite impressive. Finally, I’ve mentioned before the exceptional AstroReality application of AR. A physical model of the moon, with AR triggers. All of these, require more and more capability on your device going forward.
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Have you encountered an AR experience yet?
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Do you think AR will be something in your life by the end of 2019?
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Was very interesting to know AR/VR solutions!!! Hope to have something like that in my life in the nearest future!!!
It is coming – you can actually start seeing more and more AR content in the market now. Virtually any smartphone can interact with the content. You need a little more graphics horsepower (newer smartphone) to interact with the more complex stuff.
It would be nice to wander around VR environments, but worried about pink eye from shared goggles
I suspect for the most part you wouldn’t share the goggles. But, yes, now that you mention it I worry about pink eye. I actually use first aid swabs to clean them but now I have to reconsider ever loaning them again.
so everyone who shows up has to bring their own rig?
at my house, yes, for the most part, the people I know are split into two camps AR (which tends to be phone based so everyone has one) and VR (which tends to be headset based, That would be where things are more likely to be shared.
I’m generally thinking of VR, and those bitchen rigs…
The Oculus Go is reasonable, (it isn’t horrible in weight or size) neither is the Hololens.
They’ll keep getting lighter and smaller as the tech matures
at some point unless there is a way to project into the eye, they are bound by the creation, trapping and presentation of light images.
I’ve been advocating for retinal projection since the 80s…
that I truly believe. The scary thing being the potential damage to the eye. I wouldn’t want to be a beta tester.
Why d’ye think I wear this patch, yar!
Ok I have to ask, did I miss the “pirate day” memo?
You didn’t know that September 19th is international talk like a pirate day?
The short answer is no I didn’t know that. Sadly, I read your post after seeing the comments. I guess an old salty seadog can learn a new trick or two after all.
It might be the stupidest holiday, but I adore it!
It is a fun day, as is today (my favorite) international Hobbit day! Bring forth Sting and search the day for a Ring!
to celebrate, I will cook breakfast, then second breakfast… and elevensies!
Of course, don’t forget high tea! And if possible smash the dishes and bend the forks, that is what Bilbo Baggings hates!
drink the wine and burn the corks…
I have not stopped long enough to read the details of the new iPhone.
The new specs are interesting, the killer details is the beefed-up graphics co-processor.
Honestly, I haven’t enjoyed it, Doc.
hopefully, your next experience will be better!
I hope so, Doc. I hope I’ll experience it soon.
Without a doubt you shall, it is truly coming for all of us!
Sending you this present with my heart and with that you’ll be happy in fullest measure. May the happiest things always happen to you.