An old shoe!
Umm, I’d rob a bank for that, as crude as it is.
forget about the image projection and hand waving. i will pay good money for the image recognition (as they tout it) on my touchscreen phone instead.
just like the speaker promised, i want to be able to walk up to someone, point my camera in his direction, and retrieve relevant information on him without further input. ditto on shopping and other objects. i don’t see how this is possible atm without cheating though, if they need to scan barcodes then they’re just adding a barcode scanner to your phone…
God forbid anyone offer a criticism.
Jesus H. Christ.
Chronos never said the technology was unimpressive, or that something like this couldn’t be made to work. He simply pointed out, in a perfectly reasonable manner, some of the shortcomings of the device as it currently stands.
Sorry if he interrupted your jerking off.
Quite cool.
I can’t help but wonder what the script kiddies would do with such devices.
“I’m so l33t. I hacked the principal’s 6thSense and inverted some of her shopping preferences while I was in her office. Not enough to tip her off that something was wrong, just enough so that she’ll probably end up buying hear least favorite ice cream instead of her favorite. I think she’s having an affair, and someone is apparently hung like a horse. Most of the time she buys Trojan Magnum XLs, but every 5th box are just regular classics.”
Unless it becomes significantly user-friendlier, count me out. That doesn’t even look helpful, let alone “gotta-have”. Although as far as proof-of-concept models go, it is one of the more realistic “hay I may see that one day” kind of things.
At the Wright Bros. first flight at Kitty Hawk…
“God that machine is ugly. It only flew for a few seconds, too! AND they had to take off down hill and only when the wind was just right. Are they going to paint it or leave it that hideous brown? What good is it to fly 10 feet off the ground anyway?”
again, no one said it wouldn’t work. it just needs lots of
plus the technology is nothing new. they replaced the V.R. goggles with a projector and hooked it up to the internet. image projection under daylight just seems impractical at the moment. it’s fun but not quite comparable to flying imho.
Great demo though I am not sure this particular implementation of the technology is most convenient. Most of this work would work better if it could be done on a mobile phone. I.e. you point at an object and your web-enabled phone immediately obtains the relevant information. A lot of the work would be on the online/software side. I bet Google is looking into this technology and it would be a good platform for their ads.
What impressed me most was the fact that going online via your phone is already considered cumbersome “old-shoe” technology.
Chronos objections are spot on. Unless some magic new battery or super low power projector technology is introduced that device is going to require a formidable amount of power.
The only thing that device did that was more useful and less cumbersome than current technology is the the checking of the ticket in the cab and possibly the book review while shopping. The photo wall thing was just (to be frank) kind of gee whiz but stupid. Some of the ideas are interesting but that device is not going to to be a “must have” toy. It’s trying to solve problems that don’t exist, or if they do exist are relatively trivial for most people.
Yes. Take something like this, put it into goggles that either have transparent OLED screens like this one (YouTube link) or small projectors for a HUD-style device, or perhaps something like the EyeTap, have a camera track eye movements for the interface – look at an icon, blink to bring up a context menu, that sort of thing --, have the whole thing be constantly reloaded wherever WiTricity or something like that is available, and you’ve got my dream future.
Well… or get to work on cyborg bodies. 
But still, that video was pretty brilliant, and the research – as a proof-of-concept – ground breaking. Thanks for posting this!