Augmented reality gets closer

by ellis on Monday, 15 September, 2008 · 2 comments

in user assistance

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Earlier in the year we blogged on Nokia’s plans for augmented reality and how it could be used for user assistance. Developments are moving apace, as can been seen by this demonstration from Japan:

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1 galston73 September 15, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Looks like reality by proxy. I can appreciate the use when operating software and machinery but the video example looks like a scary vision of the future. I’d rather get lost and make mistakes than have my adventures mediated by an electronic device.

2 darkflame September 16, 2008 at 12:15 am

I’d happy augmented my view to help me during the day.
Free up my brain from the boring grind and let it work on more creative things. Any job a device can replace isnt normaly a job/task worthy of a human doing anyway.

That said, I suspect this video is a concept.
We are still a decade away from my dream of a “Denno coil” future.

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