{"id":15093,"date":"2017-04-10T23:28:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=298990"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:50:36","slug":"strange-beasts-is-this-the-future-of-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/04\/10\/strange-beasts-is-this-the-future-of-augmented-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Strange Beasts&rsquo;: Is this the future of augmented reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_298991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 412px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-298991\" title=\"a strange beast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/a-strange-beast.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"286\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">(credit: Magali Barbe)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Strange Beasts&#8221; &#8212; a five-minute short science fiction movie produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/magalibarbe.com\/\" >Magali Barbe<\/a>, is in the form of an augmented-reality-game promo. Victor Weber, founder of Strange Beasts, says the game &#8220;allows players to create, customize, and grow your very own creature.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_298993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 412px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-298993\" title=\"supervision\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/supervision.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"121\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervision (credit: Magali Barbe)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Weber explains that this is made possible by &#8220;nanoretinal technology&#8221; that &#8220;superimposes computer-graphics-composed imagery over real world objects by projecting a digital light field directly into your eye.&#8221; The imagery is reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicleap.com\/#\/home\" >Magic Leap promos<\/a> &#8212; but using surgically implanted &#8220;supervision&#8221; displays.<\/p>\n<p>The movie&#8217;s surprise ending raises disturbing questions about where augmented-reality may one day take us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/209070629\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Strange Beasts&rdquo; &mdash; a five-minute short science fiction movie produced by Magali Barbe, is in the form of an augmented-reality-game promo. Victor Weber, founder of Strange Beasts, says the game &ldquo;allows players to create, customize, and grow your very own creature.&rdquo; Weber explains that this is made possible by &ldquo;nanoretinal technology&rdquo; that &ldquo;superimposes computer-graphics-composed imagery [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-vraugmented-realitycomputer-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15111,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}