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Dec 3, 2015
Amazon wants augmented reality to be headset-free
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) isn’t all headsets and funny glasses. Amazon wants to turn it into something that you can interact with in your living room, judging by a couple of the company’s recently approved patents. The “object tracking” patent shows how a system of projectors and cameras could beam virtual images onto real objects, and track your hand while you interact with them. The other, called “reflector-based depth mapping,” would use a projector to transform your room into a kind of holodeck, mapping the depth of objects and bodies in a room.
If all of this sounds familiar, it certainly is — Microsoft has a very similar concept called “RoomAlive” (originally “IllumiRoom”) that used a combination of projectors and Kinect depth sensors to turn your room into a virtual environment (below). In demos, Microsoft showed how the system could generate a virtual room that would enhance videos and even let you interact with /shoot at game objects projected on your walls. Microsoft appears to have put the RoomAlive concept on the backburner for now (though you can try to hack one together yourself) while it focuses on its Hololens headset-based AR concept.
Dec 2, 2015
CGI VFX Shorts HD: “Story of R32”
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, media & arts, robotics/AI
Check out this short film Directed by the talented Vladimir Vlasenko, about a lonely robot who just tries to attract attention to himself. For more information, please see the details and links below:
Director & CG — Vladimir Vlasenko.
Director of photography — Igor Guryev.
Sound & music — Nikita Troepolskiy, Igor Smirnov, Danil Varakuta.
Rotoskopy — Maxim Artemenko.
Actors — Nadya Vecherya, Nastya Borsh, Alexandr Sheweiko, Alexandr Koval.
Dec 2, 2015
PROTO — Sci-Fi Short Film (Full Length)
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI, singularity
A little bit of smile inducing, starry eyed optimism to balance out the post-apocalyptic horror-show version of the Singularity depicted in the other shot film I posted.
‘PROTO’ is a short film, produced by Eye Candy Film as an international co-production between Screen South based in the UK and Film Fyn based in Denmark.
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Dec 2, 2015
A Sci-Fi Short Film HD: “SINGULARITY” * — by The Bicycle Monarchy
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, mobile phones, singularity
** This film starts over black so have your speakers up nice and loud! ** Check out this fantastic Sci-Fi short film directed by the talented Samuel Jorgensen, and Produced by Jeremy Pronk!
In the midst of a war between humans and sentient androids, a Delta Force team must battle a dangerous enemy to rescue the US President.
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Dec 2, 2015
Can Zoltan Istvan beat Hillary, Trump, and Death itself?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, military, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Here’s a very in depth, approximately 6,000 word story (broken into 5 articles) with many pictures on transhumanism–from one of the world’s leading tech sites: The Verge.
Zoltan Istvan is very worried about the superintelligent machines.
He says the war over artificial intelligence will be worse than the Cold War nuclear arms race — much worse. It will be far more deadly, and whoever wins will control the world, eternally. This artificial intelligence might be being developed right now, he says, for all we know. At a government facility in the middle of the Arizona desert, perhaps.
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Dec 2, 2015
The Quest to Make CRISPR Even More Precise
Posted by Montie Adkins in category: biotech/medical
The new sexy beast on the block.
To fulfill its revolutionary promise, the gene-editing technique will need to be edited.
