Posted: February 21st, 2013 | Author: tonytang | Filed under: Assignment 2 | No Comments »
This paper provides a very good overview of AR in terms of technologies and applications. However, most of the technologies and applications mainly focused on discover the popular visual AR. I would like to share two instant ideas which are trying to escape from the current domain. You probably have already had similar concepts as well.
Sound Filter
Currently, users always listen to music with headsets. Through this device users are perfectly isolated from the noisy reality and immerse in their own music world. What if we can invent a new kind of headset, Sound Filter, unpleasant noises or unnecessary aural information can be filtered out, and those sounds we desired are kept and amplified. It can also overlay the real sounds with digital ones harmonically to create a new experience of aural environment. With Sound Filter users can retrieve aural information of a location two days ago, or leave sounds at the location for a comping event days later.
Second Skin
Clothes actually is our second skin which protect us from extreme conditions. However, current function of clothes, the same as a headset, is to isolate users from the reality and to keep them in a constant and safe environment. When wind is blowing, if you wear a good jacket, you will actually feel nothing. What if your clothes are a kind of mediated matter equipping sensors on its outer surface and actuator on its inner one, a cold and strong wind blow can be transformed into a warm massage. When walking on the street in a dark night, a stranger’s gaze behind you can be sensed by your jacket and be transformed to a sense of poking at your back to alarm you and make you aware of potential danger.
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