Augmented Reality, science fiction is now science fact | Ryan Groom | TEDxMoncton

[Music] augmented reality is the ultimate merging of physical world with your digital life another thought unlocking the natural way the brain thinks using a technology that's natural to interact with visually so better said augmented reality is the most natural way to interface with your digital life now there's a few types of augmented reality the first one I want to talk about is augmented reality in a 2d space now many people have particular video games you put your phone up or a tablet you see the video on there and you see graphics overlaid what would be an example of that I bet you a lot of you of play pokemon go do we have any closet pokemons go players here or anybody that knows somebody that played Pokemon go I think there's a lot of people that are not admitting that but that's not the type of augmented reality we're going to talk about today we're going to talk about taking Holograms and placing them in a 3d space experts are now calling this type of augmented reality mixed reality because it's taking digital and the physical and mixing together when you put on a pair of these glasses they're transparent unlike virtual reality where you're locked away from the real world the first time I put these on I could see the Sun in front of me I could see the earth I guess see Mars but I also see the rest of the world can we go to the next side please we're going to show a little a little demo here so this is a hologram in this person's real world they're manipulating it by their voice by gesture by gaze you know they can bring in anatomy class right into their real world or actually work on their own jet engine now the first time that I saw augmented reality was about two years ago it was under an on-deck non-disclosure your agreement and I went in and there was a computer setup and it had a building on a computer screen nothing fancy about that but over here was a physical model it was a table with a cityscape on it with a hole in the middle now there was a building over here when I clicked on that building and I had that what we call a hololens we'll talk about that in a second and I looked over that building was physically there so they let me take the mouse and they let me click on the building and move it down they looked over there in the building down they said even neater put your finger up move over and actually click on the hologram and make it move I was so low I mean I remember back and say 1983 one friend of my mother's brought over a Timex Sinclair you know that was even earlier than the Commodore 64 of it 20 and I was very young and I got the book out and I programmed my first for next loop any programmers in here everybody do basic or Java or for training all those things but I I wrote that and the computer could count to one to ten I made it do that and I said if you did this you go count backwards and count backwards and I was hooked and that put me on my career path and one today but I being a computer geek for a long long time I've experienced many technologies but putting this on my head and seeing Holograms I got that same feeling that I had as a kid again because we're now we're interfacing with the digital just the way you naturally do ah anybody here play mind craft now you imagine sitting you know cross-legged on the floor interacting that the 3d so let's try to do a demo we're gonna hopefully the demo gods smile upon us because we're gonna do a live demo so this is what's called a microsoft hololens the industry currently says it's the state of the art for augmented reality I'm going to load it up it is a Windows 10 PC stuck on my head it has not hooked to a computer I mean it's up to the computer to do the live streaming but it's not tethered so this is the microsoft hololens it's a self-contained unit running Windows 10 so does not need another computer it does not need a phone it's what you see is what you now in front of you you can see me staring at my menu I get that by doing a bloom I just naturally put my hand in front of me and the menu disappears I'm gonna go over here and do the same thing just to show you I'm bringing up the menu I call it the windows 95 menu because it kind of looks like the old style but that's the menu in front of you I'm gonna get rid of it now you can see as I look off into space I see my little friend the astronaut right he's floating in front of this nice gentleman right over his head hopefully he doesn't drop from gravity I have my action grin I'm gonna load that up welcome back isn't that so polite now do we see the solar system on the screen behind me because I don't get to see it now let's make that we can pinch it and we can actually move Holograms in real space now you see when they put my finger up it knows the fingers there this brings up the menu and let's play the solar system get a little bit of sound I'm gonna take the sound off and there's a solar system floating around you there's lots of demos that we could show but imagine as a student be able to see hologram of a motor of trying to source Rex whatever in the classroom just gonna pause that and that is actually in watch me fall off the stage in a virtual space there Saturn in front of me so imagine learning in school there's the earth I'm going to stretch way out there's the earth in my hand so again our gestures we it sees my finger it knows to bring up a menu what a natural way instead of click click click point point point I put my finger up there it is I can hit something and there it is and it's great there in my world so when I saw this for the first time I went that what I've got to do for a living next slide please so one of the neatest applications for this is 3d communications because there's times where you need an expert I need an expert all the time these hands interface with a keyboard not a keyboard like that a computer keyboard these hands are not compatible with screwdrivers with wrenches I'm no good at wiring so what happens is I have a power word that I use it's called father-in-law and he has to come help me but imagine if I could put one of these on my head so I've got this on my head and there's a plumbing job like this poor person is going how do I fix that but this person gets a first person view back to their tablet you imagine having something that you are not the expert about and someone can ink right on a tablet and you see that holographic ink appear so you now know that's exactly what you need to do it's like yeah there's three blue wires you need to cut one of them which one the one to the right one to the left let's play the little video please and we'll show how they are going to collaborate with remote in select ink mode to draw in your space air tap and hold then drag your hand to draw your friend can draw in your space too what a great way when you're placing furniture or just collaborating on anything now this is contact lens the Futurists mean this is today's technology I put it on my head but the futurists are saying that in 10 15 years that this is gonna sit right there I mean that science fiction becoming science fact for the next slide please great quote the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that is taking place and the power of augmented reality is going to be when we all have ulee's headsets on in three years or actually gonna be like a pair of sunglasses but when they become a pair of contact lenses when you're working on something you can actually confirm what you're working on which is very very important last slide please history lesson that is an Olivetti calculator that I still have that was my grandfather's he did one calculation per second so he's doing his books it was manual was in electronic people right Mike Timex Sinclair hundreds of calculations per second in credible Commodore 64 I fell in love remember the commercial I adore my Commodore 64 I love that thing I spent way too many hours on it tens of thousands of calculations per second now we get to the hololens it has a holographic processing unit in it that there's a trillion calculations a second now let's put that in the context one calculation total equals one meter one meter per second at a trillion calculations a second that's a billion kilometers in a second that's going from here to Saturn in one second that's how far we've come since 1978 so I hope you all get a chance to augment your reality really soon thank you very much you

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Keywords: TEDxTalks, English, Canada, Technology, 3D Technology, Brain, Cognitive science, Communication, Computers, Connection, Curiosity, Cyber, Digital, Innovation, Internet, Software, Visualization

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 17 2017