Interesting AR 'vision' video

[Cromfel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xgYcoH0tA

Thats quite well made AR video. Some things to catch up on the tracking side and on the display but it provided quite smile

[lnrrgb]

made me wonder when they'll roll out simulview movies in theaters equipped with 3D. might be interesteing if the glasses could be triggered back and forth, to watch the same movie from different perspectives... from perhaps two characters viewpoints... or maybe from two directors viewpoints/styles.

[FingerFlinger]

Cool video; a bit closer to Brave New World than I hope we actually end up, though!

[Fredz]

That free fall game from 0:31 to 0:51 looks like a very good candidate for the Rift. It would even be better with something like a Kinect for the controls, too bad there's so much latency with it. But even with a Wiimote and Nunchuck it could be a lot of fun.

[cybereality]

Cool.

Also, the free-falling would be great on the Rift. In fact, the game AaaaAAA!!! is very similar to this, and I already got it working with my Rift driver:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhM0qVMhoPA[/youtube]

[android78]

Am I the only person who thought it seemed really creepy?

[zalo]

Am I the only person who thought it seemed really creepy?

That's what made it a good story! It's also a warning about the potential detrimental societal effects of hard AR.

Not like any of us care about those things. GO AR!

[FingerFlinger]

Well, I think it was supposed to be creepy, and I think the film makers' criticism is valid. But the vision of the technology was pretty cool.

[Callezetter]

I wonder what the falling game in the beginning is?
Or if its just an imaginary game, or a real title?

[FingerFlinger]

Well, you had to fly through rings... Superman 64?

[Fredz]

Seems a direct ripoff of that AaAaAA!!! game, but they did a pretty good job with the realistic rendering. Cyber since you've already got this game, how do the controls work ? Also, do you think the use of some inertial input (Wiimote + Nunchuck, Kinect, Razer Hydra, Gametrak) could be an improvement for maximal immersion ?

[Zaptruder]

Well, I think it was supposed to be creepy, and I think the film makers' criticism is valid. But the vision of the technology was pretty cool.

I think the film maker's criticism is about as valid as The Matrix's criticism for VR.

i.e. an story driven excuse to use AR/VR as a framework to drive a plot idea.

[FingerFlinger]

I am legitimately concerned that people are becoming too wrapped up in their own isolated worlds due to technology. I interpreted the movie as a metaphor for that issue, not a literal prediction of the future. The little brain control thing at the end was pretty ham-handed IMO.

[cybereality]

@Fredz: The controls are mostly the mouse, so it would work well with head-tracking. You also need the WASD keys, but that could easily be subbed with a wireless controller with key-bindings (the PS Move Navigator would work well for this).

[Fredz]

Also, the free-falling would be great on the Rift. In fact, the game AaaaAAA!!! is very similar to this, and I already got it working with my Rift driver

I just installed Steam on my Linux machine and found a new version of that game with better graphics and more varied and realistic environments. It's getting closer to that AR video, weird that it's not even mentioned on Wikipedia.

It's called AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome, here is a video :

[youtube-hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaNKYCKlwI[/youtube-hd]

[cybereality]

Yeah, I've got that game too but I haven't played it yet. Looks cool.

[dbuckvs]

It's also a unity game, and those guys are pretty badass cool (Met them at Unite this year), so maybe we can get or help build something direct once the rift arrives.

[Fredz]

It would be nice, I emailed them the link to the AR video but I completely forgot to tell them about the Rift. Very stupid since that's why I got interested in their games in the first place. Maybe someone who tested the Rift could tell them about it to see if they would be interested to adapt their games for it.

[Aeroflux]

I am legitimately concerned that people are becoming too wrapped up in their own isolated worlds due to technology. I interpreted the movie as a metaphor for that issue, not a literal prediction of the future. The little brain control thing at the end was pretty ham-handed IMO.

I'm not so sure it was brain control. When he said something about altering/accessing profile, I realized it was an AI that had become a bit too aware. Dating App? Yeah, comes with a date...which is why he could pause her in the first place. She wasn't real...and therein lies the catalyst of the question, how far is too far?