Atheer Offers a Wearable Display That's Glasses, Not Glass 33
An anonymous reader writes "A new competitor to Google Glass was unveiled Thursday at the AllThingsD conference. Unlike Glass, it shows augmented reality content in 3D and is driven by hand gestures and voice input." Here's a video demo. If you think complaints that Google Glass is creepy have merit, take heart: these aren't for walking around with.
Demo wasn't augmented reality (Score:5, Informative)
That demo was not augmented reality (at least the first half, it was too boring to watch the whole thing). It looked like a display system at best.
The user had to pick their location from a globe they could spin. Then they pick their home offices? What did that have to do with augmenting the reality of them standing on a stage wherever the conference was looking at three well known people.
Augmented reality is about looking at the world and having the computer augment what your eyes are seeing. It could be mundane stuff like yelp or tripadvisor ratings above stores or hotels you are looking at, or something cool like tracking the pulse of a person you are looking at to see how they react to questions you ask. It could be anything overlayed on your current scene that would augment the information you eyes can normally collect.
Awkward gestures to pick a location from a globe and read a newspaper that has nothing to do with your current reality is not it.
I like how they pointed out the user could see the people and scene on stage as well as the overlayed graphics we were seeing on the screen. What use would that be to see people standing around or whatever the scene while I tried to read a newspaper?
They should just be honest and call them a 3d glasses based display with a kinect glued to the top frame of the glasses for input.
Re:The hosts needed to shut up (Score:4, Informative)
This is how average Americans talk to each other. Ever see an American talk show? Those guys have their own shows because they're the champions of it. It's also why average Americans repeat themselves so much.
Well no. We repeat ourselves because the average American doesn't listen. Interruption is just a symptom of that. They're not really aware that you're saying something, they're more caught up in deciding what they're going to say next.