Growing up, cartoons were a big part of my life, be it transformers, G I Joe, Centurian and even Pokemon and Digimon(who could forget them)
Other then exposing me to tremendous amounts of violence as a young boy, it did do me at least one good. Acceptance of Augmented reality. Why you might ask? Simple these shows, although some in the late 80s were way ahead of there time. Transformers had robots even before the microsoft office( reminder for those who bought in school go go collect it), Centurian show that people could sync up with computers before the first mobile computer was build and pokemon and digimon brought it to a whole new level. Augmented reality
Remember the good o’ Pokedex,
Now this is where augmented reailty is headed. Point and the person with a device and TADA! All you need to know about the person is there. This will be a great addition in times like this where security its priority, all the cops or guards have to do is point the device at you and he will know all your legal records. Seems a fit far fetched? Not true! All they need is a device that works like the microchip planted in pets to be either in humans or simply placed in a card form like the IC. This also allows picture identification of criminals on the lose. Highly possible! It will be like crime watch on the go. And with face detection currently available in all new mac books world wide (get one at your nearest local dealer now) it will make it even easier to spot the person.
LCD TV market is getting huge now due to prices always dropping. This has allowed various technologies to be worked with such as virtual mirrors. These tend to be mirrors that hang on your wall, and also have a screen built in. When the screen it switched on the surface is no longer reflecting an image of you, but is showing a video.
Using this idea, a store in New York decided that clothes can be tried on by facing a mirror and displaying the clothes on screen. Where the clothes are not, you can see your reflection as though you are wearing the clothes. To add to this, a picture is then taken, emailed to friends and family and an opinion can be gained as to weather you buy the item of clothing or not.
Seems like an interesting idea and might help speed up things for those who get bored waiting for their wives to try on everything in a store.
