Future mixed reality glasses and ski goggles, scanning rooms, rivers of cheese, a lot of people doing things while you rather should be day drinking.
I was reading This week in XR – "There was so much XR news this week it hurt our hands to type it" – and while looking at the HTC Vive Proton prototype i could not help to start thinking about skiing goggles from the 1970s. While Mark Zuckerbergs future AR/VR hardware vision a couple of years ago relied on "totally normal looking glasses" we will most probably see a variety of different glasses.
And looking back at sunglass fashion in the 20st century we probably all might be ready to wear huge glasses. To hide behind. In an age of uncertainty. Here is a random pinterest board to check out what people wore back in the days when there was endless snow due to the cold war. {supposed to be mildly funny}.
While writing all this my first mobile room scan is currently processing, using Display.land. Quote Charlie Fink: Being able to capture the volume of a space, not just its image, is a breakthrough.
While taking a 360 photo always meant that you were looking at a static image from a static point of view, this new breed of tools (e.g. Canvas) allows to move around in a 3d space.
While this is great for a lot of stuff Snapchat and others are working on another building site. Ground segmentation in real time.
Expect AR rivers of cheese, fields of mice, giant screaming mouths on your carpet or maybe whole little mini-cities. Brands transforming your carpet. Color-changing rainbow walkways . I could go on.
Bit disappointed while browsing some of the AR in Actions talks 2020. Lots of buzzwords, lots of Anything is possible to push the boundaries of the unknown and storytelling, storytelling, storytelling while fiddling around with smartphones in front of lousy markers.
Okay, and then a VR wine tasting comes around. These pics are too good. Wink. Need to collect images of people using goggles and vr related products in places you would not (have) expect(ed).
Unlike sex, VR is crazy better when you do it underwater
"The visual images in Spaced Out were stylized and conceptual to create a sense of the unknown."