Congeries of cross connected concepts
Because it was the Thanksgiving weekend, I went off with SWIPIAW to her maternal aunt’s house for a gathering. As normal humans (i.e., not me) do on such occasions, there was a football game on the television. I noticed that the first down line display technology had improved so that additional information such as the scrimage line, down, and yardage were also displayed. That’s exactly the kind of thing I mean by enhanced reality, except that in the not too distant future that technology will be available personally. If I had to guess, I think it will happen via cell phones first, based on cell phone cameras. In effect the current camera display would become a window on the enhanced world, so you could look “through” it to see the various additional dimensions / manifolds / overlays of the enhanced world. I should be able to afford a cell phone upgrade by then.
P.S. I need to write a review of Lady of Mazes which touches on some of these issues. Anyone else read that?
| cjm Sunday, 25 November 2007 at 23:03 |  |
do you (AOG) watch the tv series “Numbers” ? i not, you might want to give it a try. they had an episode recently about a “game” that involved special devices that would overlay extra information, through the viewer, if you were in the correct location.
| Annoying Old Guy Monday, 26 November 2007 at 09:02 | |
The exhaustive list of channels we watch here is
If it’s not on one of those, I don’t see it. So I haven’t seen Numb3rs. I had to give up regular TV watching years ago and I can’t see where I would get the time to start up again. I would just like to catch up with my DVD collection — I have a dozen or so still in the original wrapping years after I purchased them.
| cjm Wednesday, 28 November 2007 at 14:03 | |
i don’t envy you that work load. from past conversations i know you are not much into popular entertainment, so i will refrain from making recommendations :) i just added 1/2T to my home pc for more tv episodes and divx movies :)
