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Augmented Reality Renders Concrete Block Invisible

Posted August 04, 2010 1:42 PM

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

Clever augmented reality applications are becoming the natural byproducts of our modern computers--computers that are tiny, have eyes and other location-aware sensors, and are able to place a synthetic layer of information on our view of the world around us. The latest is this "invisible" block of solid concrete dreamed up by artists Daniel Franke and Markus Kison. So how does it work?

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08/04/2010 11:32 PM

I'm sure that will have an application... somewhere...
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08/05/2010 12:59 AM

Are you really, really sure it will have an application somewhere???
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08/05/2010 4:08 AM

Big deal. PhotoShop can also do this. (There's an eraser in there somewhere.)

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08/05/2010 4:56 AM

A few bottles of beer can have a similar effect.
A pretty lady can make everything else invisible.
Oh and prime numbers are indivisible...
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08/05/2010 9:09 AM

"Augmented Reality"??? So THAT's what happened to me in the 60's!

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08/05/2010 12:14 PM

It happen to me the other day... I got sent back home by my partner to pick up the pillbox on the coffee table... and I could swear that they weren't there.. later, when we got back home.. shoulda heard the abuse I had to take.. because there they were.. like a concrete block on the table.. they must a been invisible when I looked before....

that has been happening to me since I was a kid... only it was dad giving out the verbal abuse back then... lol

oh well.... I guess I have a couple of foibles.

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08/05/2010 12:38 PM

My wife is always telling me "It's behind the milk!"....and she's usually right!

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08/09/2010 8:28 AM

Wives are good at bitterly reminding you stuff, unless it is something important (like an aniversary), then they become silent as the date approaches and secretively hope you forget it, just to to have a good one to reproach you later, when it's past.

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