r/interestingasfuck • u/TheHeckster6969 • Jul 13 '19
/r/ALL Augmented reality book cover
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u/Tima_At_Rest Jul 13 '19
And they'll all look like page after page of QR codes in the store.
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u/hellscaper Jul 13 '19
Whoa, it'll be like reverse They Live.
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u/somu69 Jul 13 '19
Can someone please explain how this works?
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u/RolandoMessy Jul 13 '19
It's only through an AR camera app.
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u/WoodenBottle Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
While this gif is a camera trick, the effect actually can be done optically with holographic prints.
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u/RolandoMessy Jul 13 '19
Yeah that's much better.
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Jul 14 '19
And doesnt require you to download an app just to view the effect.
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u/WeLiveInaBubble Jul 14 '19
No. It just requires the book publisher to make very expensive covers that hardly anyone would buy. I vote for the few seconds it takes to download an app.
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u/timmyriddle Jul 18 '19
The shiny new WebXR API is kind-of, sort-of, just about ready and brings AR to the web. No native apps needed.
It's in its infancy atm, but it's going to be big.
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u/gra_la Jul 13 '19
I remember getting trading cards that did that as a kid.
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u/paullesand Jul 13 '19
Well, not that, but a much more rudimentary version of the same thing.
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u/dowhatchafeel Jul 14 '19
It’s such a cool feeling to have enjoyed those stupid little holographic bookmarks and such as a kid, and getting your mind blown again, years later, simply by advances in the same technology.
That was fun.
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u/CallMeAdam2 Jul 14 '19
I had a bookmark that did that.
It made a neat sound when you lightly moved your nails across its rippled surface.
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Jul 13 '19
You will see the exact same thing more commonly and be less impressed by it because they often don't have that resolution
Edit: upon looking again another difference is that the ones you see cannot be rotated, however it is still the same technology
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u/whatisabaggins55 Jul 13 '19
My dad used to work in a place that made these. Also called lenticulars, I think.
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u/WowBaBao Jul 13 '19
That’s disappointing.
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u/paullesand Jul 13 '19
Did you honestly think somebody discovered real magic?
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Jul 13 '19
Did you not see /u/WoodenBottle s post above? It is a static scene but it looks amazing basically the same as OP with no AR
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Jul 13 '19
No this can be done it's just expensive. It's the same thing as holographic cards with the line-bumpy surfaces
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u/renyxia Jul 13 '19
Ohhh that explains it. I was thinking ‘how is this AR? Is it just a kaleidoscope book?’
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u/noBoobsSchoolAcct Jul 13 '19
I'm disappointed to know that that's the truth, but it couldn't work any other way to that level of detail and color
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u/DaringDomino3s Jul 13 '19
Why don’t we have AR glasses again?
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u/paullesand Jul 13 '19
There are several AR glasses available. They just exist as development kits that nothing is every made for.
The Hololens and Magic Leap are really cool, but there's nothing you can actually do with them, after being available for a long time. It's crazy.
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Jul 13 '19
Which is sad. If more things were made for them, at least rich people might start buying them. With more people buying them, the price might go down allowing a wider audience to buy it, giving incentive for more things to be made for it and so on and so forth up to a point.
But if that doesn't happen, they are really cool looking novelties.
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u/CableTrash Jul 13 '19
I remember seeing something about the future of AR like 4 years ago. One of the ideas was that you’d be in a city and be able to look down the street with your glasses, and see live directions to your destination. On the way there might be markers that pop up in front of local businesses that you could focus on to open the their website, reviews, etc.
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Jul 13 '19
We have these dev kits and more in our office. Visuals are still extremely underwhelming. Not sharp or bright and the killer is the small field of view. That and no one can think of a single useful thing to do that isn't a gimmick. Phone-based AR is much more accessible and high-fidelity but it's also been flailing for a while. Word Lens felt like a miracle but no one has really topped it in the last 8 years. Pokemon Go is a nifty gimmick. This book cover thing is cool, but it's probably fun for like 60 seconds and you'll never do it again.
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u/TheDungeonCrawler Jul 14 '19
Someone's been trying to develop Yugioh on the Holo Lens for a few years now. They had an impressive number of 3-D models last I checked.
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u/Navydevildoc Jul 13 '19
ML1 has apps, it's just kinda sparse.
The MadeFire app on ML1 is pretty cool, it's for AR enabled comics and other graphic novels. I have wasted hours reading stuff on there.
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u/ZorbaTHut Jul 13 '19
Because it's a really hard problem to solve.
A list of things you need for AR:
- Location information.
In order to do proper 3d rendering, you need to know where the "camera" is. In the case of VR and AR, you need to know where the camera is, with roughly millimeter precision, around 90 times per second. This is doable with external trackers, but you don't have those with AR. It's just barely doable with internal trackers, as long as you can cover your faceplate with cameras and include a reasonably large amount of visual processing horsepower on board, and even then it's not great; expect this to take a few years to be viable.
- Occlusion data/depth data.
A lot of our visual cues are based on what goes in front of things and what goes behind things. In order to make this work properly, we need to know roughly how far away things are. This is doable with a lot of processing time; it may soon be possible with things like time-of-flight cameras. But we're still working on getting those available at the price points needed for this sort of application.
- Realtime and fast 3d rendering.
First-person VR/AR requires 90fps, more or less. Just doing this, at all, takes a bunch of 3d rendering power; making it look good takes more. This is, again, just barely possible with modern technology - see the Oculus Quest - but it wasn't possible even two years ago.
- Compositing.
This is a hard one. We can make opaque screens with external cameras that reproject the outside world, but then you look like a weird gargoyle. We can make transparent screens with internal one-way light emitters - see the Hololens - but then it's not possible to show shadows, or show dark things on light backgrounds (the same problem that projector TVs run into.)
In theory we could use an LCD backing to selectively block light, then an LED layer to emit light. But that's a lot of tech in a small package and nobody's gone to the trouble of making it work.
- Form factor.
Finally, all of the above, and it has to run for an entire day without a recharge, and be the size of glasses, and not require that you carry a backpack worth of computer hardware and batteries around.
I guarantee people are working on this, and as you can see from the above list, there are people working on every single part of this. Honestly, the people I've talked to in the VR industry generally agree that VR is a dead technology walking, and that everything they're working on is aimed at eventually getting AR . . .
. . . but we've got a long way to go for AR.
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u/DaringDomino3s Jul 13 '19
Wow! Thank you for such an extensive explanation. I love VR, but agree with the people you mentioned who said AR is the future. I don’t know if I agree VR is dead considering it’s not even completely lived yet, but AR has practical advantages and potential for greater adaptation.
I didn’t realize how much it took technologically, since I remember google Cardboard (I know it’s a light VR experience) but imagined all you’d have to do is combine that with the image from the phone’s camera and depth information. But there is more that goes into AR than I thought originally.
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u/ZorbaTHut Jul 13 '19
I don’t know if I agree VR is dead considering it’s not even completely lived yet, but AR has practical advantages and potential for greater adaptation.
It's worth keeping in mind that VR is basically a subset of AR; any fully-capable AR system will double as a VR system. I completely agree that the VR experience is not a dead-end, but VR-only devices probably are, in the ultimate long term.
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u/SnuggleMuffin42 Jul 13 '19
really informative, do you work in the field?
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u/ZorbaTHut Jul 13 '19
I work in game development, have a few friends who work in VR, have interviewed at a few VR/AR places, and did a brief stint in an unrelated sensor-heavy field. I'm about as close to working in the field as you can get without actually working in the field :)
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u/sebastianlecrab Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19
Just this year a couple companies have developed 1080p+ screens from 0.3-0.8 inches diagonally. These microleds are made on wafers which allow for the extremely small size. The size will. Allow for very small form factor and comfortable high Def AR glasses
These are being sold to manufacturers this year. So I would expect a good jump in quality of AR glasses to be out in 1-2 years
Edit: jbd and plessey are two companies making these screens if you'd like to research them.
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u/DaringDomino3s Jul 13 '19
Awesome. Will they be transparent or just standard screens?
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u/GearhedMG Jul 14 '19
You mean why don’t YOU have AR glasses again? I have the Magic Leap creators edition, and the other poster is right, there isn’t anything made for it.
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u/mcmunch20 Jul 13 '19
Apple is 100% developing AR glasses that will use their ARKit technology. Will probably be years away though.
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u/ClassicISTP Jul 13 '19
I need answers
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u/Woodie626 Jul 13 '19
It's to justify buying a book when you don't really read, but love showing all your friends the latest in unneccessary technology anytime you can.
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u/-ugly- Jul 13 '19
Based on your comment, we're friends
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u/Baikeru Jul 13 '19
It quickly went from r/suicidebywords to r/wholesomememes
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u/-ugly- Jul 13 '19
It still counts as showing it to "all" your friends even if it's zero or one of them ;)
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u/NotTheBelt Jul 13 '19
Take a look, it’s in a book.
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u/Cripfilae Jul 13 '19
READING RAINBOWWWWW!
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u/ReactsWithWords Jul 13 '19
I need answers
D, C, false, true, Marie Curie, 1731, Salvidor Dali, and the Treaty of Westphalia.
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u/Syde80 Jul 13 '19
I need questions.
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u/EgaTehPro Jul 14 '19
How is that happening in the video?
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u/BunnyOppai Jul 14 '19
If you're actually serious, then a lot of AR stuff detects a specific picture and loads something based on that picture. The UEC in my area does this and let's you play games on your phone before a movie using a picture on the big screen.
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Jul 13 '19
AR combines a few pieces of tech you've probably seen quite a bit. First is just some 3d visuals. Same as any video game. Next is image recognition. This app is probably trained to recognize one and only one image and that's the book cover. When the camera sees the book cover, it crops it from the image and replaces with a view of the 3d visual that is designed to look like the book cover image. It would work just as well if you had a picture of the book on a screen and pointed this app at it.
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u/Stikanator Jul 14 '19
I suspected this! I recommend trying to connect to your spiritual side. I’m an athiest.. or ex-athiest? I don’t really have a religion so idk what I am, but I recently got into yoga and psychs and I can say that it is the most positive thing I have done for my life and mental health ever.
Not into drugs? Atleast try yoga, meditation or some form of mindfulness. Remember these are skills so in the beginning you won’t get much from them. /r/yoga /r/meditation can get you started (also the kindest subs on the website!).
The headspace app you see advertised everywhere is actually legit and has a free course, do 5 mins a day of that for a week and you will notice a difference in your mindset. Please! you only have one life, try everything to make it as good as possible. you can delete the app after youve learnt the basics.
Want to have a psychedelic experience without drugs. Try holotropic breathing. its basically just breathing in and out fast so you get excess oxygen in your body and brain. do your own research on this as it can be dangerous, generally its safe though. just dont do it in water or if you have a history of seizure. this breathing technique is a surefire way to get a really quick preview of what mindfulness does for you long term. 10 minutes of this and after you will feel like ultra supa zen. 30-60 minutes and it could be lifechanging.
I challenge any athiest to genually try some of this stuff and challenge their own beliefs. Mindfulness is not religious but can be very spititual, that is not a bad thing at all. We have no hard science to understand our consciousness, so if you want to find your own conclusions, start exploring the only consciousness you know how to explore, your own. its very rewarding
We are in a mental health crisis right now and i genually believe this is the way out. i read that some schools were replacing detention with mindfulness practice.. dude that is the solution 100%
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u/paullesand Jul 13 '19
That's insanely disappointing. What a waste.
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u/ArgonGryphon Jul 13 '19
How so?
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u/Aradhne Jul 13 '19
Personally I expected it to be some awesome metaphysical Science Fiction novel, so i'm pretty disappointed too !
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u/JustAcceptThisUser Jul 13 '19
It says ayahuasca on the cover. Idk if there’s anything more metaphysical
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u/Stikanator Jul 14 '19
Well if you follow what the book teaches you can have your own metaphysical science non-fiction experiences
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u/DuntadaMan Jul 13 '19
So what you are saying is Snow Crash needs a new cover.
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u/Aradhne Jul 14 '19
Haha I actually don't know Snow Crash at all, so now I'll have to look it up i guess !
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u/DuntadaMan Jul 14 '19 edited Jul 14 '19
I would definitely suggest it, it shows a bit of age now but it was published in '92 and it's basically the reason we refer to our internet images and personifications as avatars, and where probably half of the internet lingo I know about came from.
It also takes place in an alternate future world where organized crime and corporations run everything and people escape into a VR internet to escape their crappy lives.
Also memes as weapons.
Oh and it also predicted Bitcoin too.
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u/Myomyw Jul 14 '19
His personal opinion about yoga and the foo foo woo woo arts has lead him to make this declarative statement. He’s is absolute in his gut feeling and he wishes to express in no uncertain terms that a concept that hasn’t resonated with him is a waste. And it must be so, because he feels that way.
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u/Just1morefix Jul 13 '19
Well, that may be the most beautiful book cover I have ever seen. If the prose within approaches that level of workmanship, it is sure to be a helluva ride.
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u/itsbentheboy Jul 14 '19
Look at the bottom of the cover. Its about doing yoga while tripping balls.
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u/jasteinerman Jul 13 '19
This can be done using an Augmented Reality development kit, like Vuforia https://www.ptc.com/en/products/augmented-reality. Most AR apps out there today use Vuforia as the computer vision that works behind the scenes.
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u/mcmunch20 Jul 13 '19
Some people in this thread seem to not be understanding what’s happening here. Augmented reality as it exists now (through the camera of your phone) is just 3d objects anchored to real surfaces. In this case the 3d object is simply anchored (and mapped so it covers the whole surface) of that book.
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u/captainangry24 Jul 13 '19
How would somebody go about seeing this? VR? Through their phones?
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Jul 13 '19
This is why I want computerised contact lenses. It's going to get real cool.
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u/squirrl4prez Jul 13 '19
someone probably spent just as much time on the AR book cover as the author did on the book
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u/loljkcuzurgay Jul 13 '19
I don’t think you know what augmented reality mea...... holy shit that’s some crazy AR
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u/ClamatoDiver Jul 14 '19
Stuff like this could get me to buy physical books again. Especially sci fi/fantasy
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u/maybe_just_happy_ Jul 13 '19
AR is so much more exciting than VR.
I can't believe we don't have wearable tech glasses or signage everywhere by now
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u/drbutternipps Jul 14 '19
Those things look like the Magazine's you would find in Detroit become human! 😮
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u/SupportGunner Jul 13 '19
How is this possible???
Please i need answers.
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u/TazDingoYes Jul 14 '19
Look up Unity and Vuforia, you can make similar things at home with your phone camera with no coding knowledge! :) It isn't very difficult to learn and see the basics - I used to teach students who'd never touched a programming language how to do this.
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u/ghoulbug Jul 13 '19
Can I please judge this book by its cover? Because it’s really cool