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[TempAcc]

Wha, talking falls under conversation >:U
Sure, sometimes it also involves various forms of questionable fraternization, but I'm not one of judge anyone's kinks or creative implementations of hitachi wands.

Anyway, I BELIEVE THIS RECORDED DEMONSTRATION OF MALE URINATION WAS ENTIRELY UNECESSARY FOR THIS KICKSTARTER VIDEO
^spoilers

[SalmonGod]

After looking at free-floating menu screens in virtual reality space for two hours, there is something really fucking weird about taking off the headset and trying to do work on your normal monitor.

[stabbymcstabstab]

After looking at free-floating menu screens in virtual reality space for two hours, there is something really fucking weird about taking off the headset and trying to do work on your normal monitor.

the fact that this is apparently a thing you can WTF is both WTF and completely amazing.

[Eric Blank]

One day we will all have advertisements streamed directly to our personal hud while trying to access your personal settings

[helmacon]

One day we will all have advertisements streamed directly to our personal hud while trying to access your personal settings

*trying to set the clock back for daylight savings*

"God damnit. Now i'm in a fucking wendy's."

[itisnotlogical]

I'm still not convinced that the killer app for augmented reality exists yet. A lot of the proposed workplace applications I've seen are already very well provided-for by existing devices and software, and it's currently too expensive to replace standard computing (especially since you need a pretty beefy normal computer anyway for the emerging AR devices like Hololens).

AR gaming is already pretty well-handled by VR, and geolocational smartphone games seem way more popular than overlaid content like what Hololens provides.

[wierd]

When they can do equivalent things to opaque overlay--

Realtime text translation, with proper angle and shading of the overlay.  EG-- can look at the street sign in arabic, and it looks like it is in english, because it totally replaces the content of the sign with the translation, and keeps view angle in registration.

Another potential killer app is in medicine. There exist very sensitive cameras that can actually detect the pulse of a human, by measuring the color intensity variation of the skin, then enhancing it with an algorithm.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/mit-algorithm

Adding this to augmented reality would give doctors "vampire vision", allowing them to see if extremities are getting bloodflow, if the person has a pulse without having to measure one manually, etc. This is useful for determining if a patient has a blood clot, or other obstruction to blood flow, which would be very useful as a quick diagnostic tool. (Currently, a doctor has to use a doppler sonar to look for a thrombus (clot), and has to rely on other indicators that one is present, such as localized cyanosis (purple/blueness). Doctors could detect smaller clots more quickly with such a tool.)



So YES, I would say there are already some potential killer apps out there. Just not for ordinary people, aside from automatic sign translations, which several companies are already working on.

[pisskop]

have you ever had an urge to flex like Jack from Tekken, even grunting like him?

[birdy51]

have you ever had an urge to flex like Jack from Tekken, even grunting like him?

I never stop having such feelings.

[tonnot98]

have you ever had an urge to flex like Jack from Tekken, even grunting like him?

I never stop having such feelings.

HEUH

[pisskop]

no.


haaaugh, huck huck huck

[TempAcc]

UH HUH

[pisskop]

That game mortified me on many, many levels.

[Greiger]

XCOM always needs recruits, especially psionics.

Here's a stick, over there is an alien. Have fun and maybe next time we actually give you a gun!

This is really late but clearly you don't care for your soldiers much.

You gotta give them a medkit too. So that your real soldiers only need to find the nearest corpse to have access to life saving medicine.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You kids. Back in my day we forced the rooks to do the Grenade Relay, and we liked it that way!