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Wouldn't this be the most badass thing ever?

even if it did exist, the phone co's would still be raping you so hard on data that it would be useless. 😀
 
Ok that's just ridiculous. I can't take that kind of awesomeness.
 
the concept is called reality augmentation. it would work better as a visor or something. can you say information overload? I don't think it's that far away, at least some form of it. the level of integration shown in the OP would be a lot of work. but things like reading machine codes or plotting GPS routes would be easier.
 
doubt it would even be possible. If you're looking through it, and you click somewhere, how would it know what is in your own line of sight? Like when it's showing the buildings and stuff. I could see for papers though if it's placed directly on it.
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
doubt it would even be possible. If you're looking through it, and you click somewhere, how would it know what is in your own line of sight? Like when it's showing the buildings and stuff. I could see for papers though if it's placed directly on it.
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It could use something like a double-glass pain. Each with its own little black bar or dot. You look at it from an angle that aligns the dots up before use. This could be practical.

But then, it has to somehow magically know what you're looking at. Some kind of shape-recognition doesn't seem practical. (for looking at something other than text) You would have to database everything in existance from every angle and distance. So I would propose, a gps receiver being in it, so it knows where you are at, something that detects the direction you are facing. Then a database would know what is in that general location. You select from a list of objects it could be.. *shrug* If it worked like wikipedia, where anybody can add to it at any time, it wouldn't take long to populate the data.
 
Doesn't the iPhone let you find local amenities with the built in GPS (as might other things), so location based information, although not using a camera, is easily possible, although the level of integration required by the sort of device in the OP would mean everything would need to be linked up. The actual device shown in the picture would be the smallest and probably easiest part of the puzzle.
There are also quick and easy ways to get information about some things using camera phones which read a barcode type thing and then can take you to a website and give you information, although they aren't all that big (if they even exist yet) in the US. I know they are around in Japan and the UK at least though.
Some of the things aren't very far fetched, but a lot of the problem comes from having everything linked together, linked to the internet, updatable and accessible. Even if you could get a device to tell you the name of a building, finding out information like who is in the building and when they are in their office would be the hard part.
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Doesn't the iPhone let you find local amenities with the built in GPS (as might other things), so location based information, although not using a camera, is easily possible, although the level of integration required by the sort of device in the OP would mean everything would need to be linked up. The actual device shown in the picture would be the smallest and probably easiest part of the puzzle.
There are also quick and easy ways to get information about some things using camera phones which read a barcode type thing and then can take you to a website and give you information, although they aren't all that big (if they even exist yet) in the US. I know they are around in Japan and the UK at least though.
Some of the things aren't very far fetched, but a lot of the problem comes from having everything linked together, linked to the internet, updatable and accessible. Even if you could get a device to tell you the name of a building, finding out information like who is in the building and when they are in their office would be the hard part.
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Once everybody on the planet has a google gps receiver implanted in their body at birth then it will work!
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
doubt it would even be possible. If you're looking through it, and you click somewhere, how would it know what is in your own line of sight? Like when it's showing the buildings and stuff. I could see for papers though if it's placed directly on it.
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Take a look at the microsoft Photo synth. I would say that is a good example of taking a bunch of pictures and making them into a 3d world.

I don't think this is impossible to do. In fact, I would say it is exactly the direction current research is taking us. Computer Vision is a big field of study, and that is essentially what this will amount to.

Here are some problems I think you will run into. Placing the tablet on paper, and expecting it to be able to just read it. I don't know of any invisible camera with a lense with that wide of an angle. You would either need a transparent camera with many many lenses, or some sort of location recognizance. Either way, with a device like that why would you be reading a paper bound book anyways?

Next, is the translation software. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be able to take a small portion of text, not even complete sentences, and then translate it to the language of your choice? Sorry, this device will need the full text to be somewhat worthwhile, a portion of the text wont make sense to anyone. The hardest part about translation isn't doing a one to one word replacement, it is trying to convey the same meaning with those words. Think of a phrase like "It's raining cats and dogs" Now that, in its complete form would be easy to translate into "It's raining really hard" However, how confusing would a phrase "It's raining cats" be to a translator? Or even "cats and dogs" in an article talking about rain and precipitation.

Possible, yes, at least some of the functionality that this thing is asking for will be possible in the near future. However, I don't know if the entire device as it is shown will ever exist.
 
It needs to be in eyeglass form. Put it on like sunglasses rather than waving around this thing infront of yourself.
 
Originally posted by: Cogman
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
doubt it would even be possible. If you're looking through it, and you click somewhere, how would it know what is in your own line of sight? Like when it's showing the buildings and stuff. I could see for papers though if it's placed directly on it.
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Take a look at the microsoft Photo synth. I would say that is a good example of taking a bunch of pictures and making them into a 3d world.

I don't think this is impossible to do. In fact, I would say it is exactly the direction current research is taking us. Computer Vision is a big field of study, and that is essentially what this will amount to.

Here are some problems I think you will run into. Placing the tablet on paper, and expecting it to be able to just read it. I don't know of any invisible camera with a lense with that wide of an angle. You would either need a transparent camera with many many lenses, or some sort of location recognizance. Either way, with a device like that why would you be reading a paper bound book anyways?

Next, is the translation software. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be able to take a small portion of text, not even complete sentences, and then translate it to the language of your choice? Sorry, this device will need the full text to be somewhat worthwhile, a portion of the text wont make sense to anyone. The hardest part about translation isn't doing a one to one word replacement, it is trying to convey the same meaning with those words. Think of a phrase like "It's raining cats and dogs" Now that, in its complete form would be easy to translate into "It's raining really hard" However, how confusing would a phrase "It's raining cats" be to a translator? Or even "cats and dogs" in an article talking about rain and precipitation.

Possible, yes, at least some of the functionality that this thing is asking for will be possible in the near future. However, I don't know if the entire device as it is shown will ever exist.
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Yeah you can convert stuff to 3D, but I'm talking about if you're holding the glass in front of you and looking throught it at a building, on the glass the building is at a certain location but if you move your head the line of sight will change so the building will be on a different location on the glass, so how does the glass thing know where the building is in your own line of sight? Unless there's a camera so the glass is just like a TV, but from looks of it, it's actually just see through.

 
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