{"id":17310,"date":"2015-09-15T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/augmented-reality-expert-explains-how-ar-will-help-humanity"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:40:38","slug":"augmented-reality-expert-explains-how-ar-will-help-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/augmented-reality-expert-explains-how-ar-will-help-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Augmented reality expert explains how AR will help humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/15\/gaia-dempsey-ar\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/138904916\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been hearing and seeing plenty about augmented reality these days \u2014 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/05\/01\/hololens-hands-on\/\">Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens<\/a> to the mysterious Google-backed startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/02\/25\/magic-leap-explainer\/\">Magic Leap<\/a> \u2014 but aside from the gee-whiz factor, its benefits can sometimes feel almost as illusory as virtual images. Gaia Dempsey, managing director of DAQRI, which makes an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/09\/07\/android-hard-hat-augmented-reality\/\">AR-enabled smart hard hat<\/a>, offers up a strong case for why augmented reality is more than just hype. In a new video for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/futureofstorytelling.org\/\">Future of Storytelling Summit<\/a> (which also produced the stunning video of animation legend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/10\/glean-keane-vr\/\">Glen Keane drawing in VR<\/a>), Dempsey explains how AR could fundamentally change the way we learn and experience the world. For example, it\u2019s one thing to be told how the mechanics of a clock works in text or video, it\u2019s an entirely different experience to be able to manipulate a moving set of clock gears in three dimensions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/15\/gaia-dempsey-ar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been hearing and seeing plenty about augmented reality these days \u2014 from Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens to the mysterious Google-backed startup Magic Leap \u2014 but aside from the gee-whiz factor, its benefits can sometimes feel almost as illusory as virtual images. Gaia Dempsey, managing director of DAQRI, which makes an AR-enabled smart hard hat, offers up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,20,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-futurism","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64211,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions\/64211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}