[4eyes] AR interaction with projectors

[Matthew Turk]

It's good to have a healthy dose of skepticism about such things. But at the
same time, keep in mind that many or most successful technologies started
out as klunky things that no one would really want, hammers in search of
nails - e.g., personal computers, cell phones, Skype, YouTube, Twitter, etc.
etc. The vast majority may end up as completely useless, but it's very hard
to predict. (Especially the future..)

 

                Matthew

 

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[mailto:ilab-users-bounces at lists.cs.ucsb.edu] On Behalf Of Saiph Savage
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:37 PM
To: Four Eyes Lab
Subject: Re: [4eyes] AR interaction with projectors

 

Thanks for discussing this Guys, good points raised. 

With respect to Steffen's questions, I think it's the whole package that
bothers me: using a kinect controller for everything, building ugly 3D
models without knowing what for, using projectors to project low resolution
stuff on everything even if the low resolution makes it useless and if it's
shaking like hell, and building technology demos for the purpose of showing
technology rather than trying to first understand what you want to use it
for, and why, and what technology you need in the first place. ...But my
primary pet peeve is using a kinect controller for everything, a hammer in
search for nails. 

Thanks for reading me.

Cheers

 

 

 

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Steffen Gauglitz <sgauglitz at cs.ucsb.edu>
wrote:

Maybe you can be a little bit more specific by what you mean with  "it".
What is the "big, fat sledge hammer" here?
Are you talking about the Kinect? The handheld projectors? All of spatial
AR?

I agree that some of the demos they show are eye-candy, but to me, pico
projectors seem to be a promising display for AR -- considering that all
alternative display systems so far have their quirks too...

-Steffen



On 11/03/2011 11:04 AM, Saiph Savage wrote:

I feel, this is a technology pushed for the purpose of pushing the
technology. A big, fat sledge hammer in search for tiny nails. I agree
that this is 'cool' technology, but no one has designed anything that
would make it useful, practical, elegant, solving a real problem, ...
All of what they show is utterly useless, looks bad , and - in a best
case scenario - makes you sick because everything is shaking.

What do others think?
Sorry for sounding negative, but this is one of my biggest pet peeves
...I think victor knows why ;) haha

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Victor Fragoso <vfragoso at cs.ucsb.edu

<mailto:vfragoso at cs.ucsb.edu>> wrote:

   I read this article in engadget. Check it out, the video is really cool.
 
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/01/trio-of-microsoft-projectors-lets-you-get
-quasi-physical-with-ar/

   Best,

   --Victor

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