A depiction of the view through a device that Magic Leap is developing, which would insert virtual objects into the user’s real-world field of vision. Credit Magic Leap
One of the biggest players so far is Magic Leap. The company’s plans for a large new funding round, revealed in a corporate filing obtained last week by VC Experts, a provider of private market data, is on top of $542 million the company raised last year in an investment led by Google. Augmented reality devices like the one Magic Leap is developing do not block users’ view of their physical environment the way virtual reality headsets do, but instead insert game characters and other images into a person’s field of vision.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/technology/in-virtual-reality-headsets-investors-glimpse-the-future.html?_r=0
Just posting this because it's a trend and use for google glass type thing, that I hadn't thought of before. The full blending of virtual with physical.
The Magic Leap product inserts "virtual objects" into a headset wearer's real world field of vision (in the above picture, a yellow submarine).
The use for this kind of thing would be endless.. if everyone is walking around with these headsets / glasses on, then many *physical* objects wouldn't be needed anymore. No need for paint on walls -- that could be virtual. Or, signage in stores -- all virtual.
One could walk into a place of business and most of what one sees, would actually all be virtual.
Advertisement, billboards too, etc.
Or a different color sky, or virtual options to see whatever one wants to.
This whole thing would save ENERGY and RESOURCES -- with anything not needing to be physical, being virtual instead, a CGI just appearing as if it were real. Then take off the goggles, and it's just a bare bones room in the physical "real" world.
