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The Augmented Problem

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user/ Along with all new technology comes not only new great things, but also new problems. As a Google Glass user, Tiberiu Ungureanu recently experienced, was arrested for allegedly trying to pirate a film using the popular Google Glasses, which has a video and audio recording function. After about an hour of watching the movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit with his wife, they were interrupted. " About an hour into the movie (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit), a guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says “follow me outside immediately”. It was quite embarrassing and outside of the theater there were about 5-10 cops and mall cops. Since I didn’t catch his name in the dark of the theater, I asked to see his badge again and I asked what was the problem and I asked for my Glass back. The response was “you see all these cops y

When Dreams Come True

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It has been about five years since I started pondering on the impact a virtual reality or augmented reality headset would have, and it's about two years ago since I started this blog. When I did I felt that the technology had caught up with the dream, and all these incredible things we've wanted since childhood were possible and would come within the next three to five years. Then Google arrived and told me that my predictions were true, though not yet fully realized with their augmented reality glasses.  After that Team Oculus had their kickstarter for the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that let's users enter virtual worlds and immerse themselves in a way not previously possible. Though the virtual reality aspect are for many the most intriguing at this time, mostly because gamers are getting their hands on it first, which represent the audience of a billion dollar industry, which has remained constantly viral. We will find that augmented reality will become an

The Worm Hole

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What would it be like to be thrust through space and time inside a wormhole? This is one of the most interesting concepts brought to us by scientists and projected on our screens by science fiction writers and effect specialists. To present something the human race has never seen must be a big task in itself, if not to convince the viewers that it's real. There have been plenty of movies and novels where this experience has been simulated. But there is one example which blows them all away in my own personal opinion. The movie "Contact"(1997) directed by Robert Zemeckis based on a novel written by Carl Sagan himself, featuring Jodie Foster in the leading role as the accidental astronaut Dr. Ellie Arroway, has a sequence which brings you through the entire voyage through space inside a sphere, constructed to travel through wormholes. A wormhole voyage without some sense of the experience being presented or described in a realistic way wouldn't be very convincing, wh