| This technique, as it is shown, is not going to be possible for at least the next 5 years. They either know it and are making a huge fake marketing campaign (for a possible Google acquisition) or haven't realized it yet will have a really hard moment when they realize it. Couple of components which are not going to work: 1. A see-through glass with Field of View as shown in the video just doesn't exist today. The model they are going to use are more like a ‘tiny TV-screen floating in your view’ and not even close to the visualization they created. 2. Real time 3D gesture recognition from point cloud data on ARM (+ overhead for applications + games all in low latency) 3. Real time 3D environment reconstruction from moving point cloud data (requires something like quad-core i7 + 32 GB RAM + desktop-class GPU processing) They want to achieve it on an ARM running from tiny batteries!!! + On top of this would come the whole application / game experience, something they seem to be concentrating on, instead of getting the basics right. 4. Then there is latency, which is just not going to be solved for the next 5 but more probably 10 years, just read Michael Abrash blog about the reality of Augmented Reality glasses (http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/). To be clear, I'm not saying that they won't be able to make what they promise, I'm saying that not even Google or anyone will nearly be able to achieve it for at least 5 years, and everyone knows this who is even a little bit into augmented reality. So personally I find the Kickstarter campaign to be a fake campaign and it is just bending the rules of Kickstarter which requires a real-world hardware prototype. So they made a glued together prototype with a fake visualization, with the whole campaign built around the video. Nonetheless, the campaign has a chance of being a massive hit, because every sci-fi fan is dreaming about it for decades and is willing to back it if he has the funds. In that case, it might have a chance of the biggest Kickstarter failures of all time. The best case for them would be a quick Google acquisition and integration into the Glass team. |