The more there are important uses for Augmented Reality -- that can improve productivity, reduce error and make people more efficient, the more pressure there will be to get it going quickly. This is another awesome new use case. It's very different from other use cases I've heard so far.
Netherlands First Responders Use Augmented Reality to Stop Crime Scene Contamination
Dutch police are using a system very similar to Pokémon GO on smartphones, but they aren't walking around trying to catch little pocket monsters. The purpose of this system is to give augmented reality help to first responders who may be less qualified to work a fresh crime scene. If successful, the idea of a contaminated crime scene could be a thing of the past.
I started seeing this news yesterday. This is really interesting because this is a significant kind of learning. When trying to learn morse code purposely, it was quite difficult, and would require a lot of purposeful practice. Even the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alfa, bravo, charlie, delta, echo....) is difficult to learn, not as difficult as morse however. I've marveled at people who can listen to fast morse code and understand it easily and quickly. (They start to hear words) Among the tricks I used to learn the phonetic was to start using it on every street sign I saw. Repetition is key, but it looks like this particular method is passive -- you don't have to provide your own willpower So, now if AR technology can be used to teach similar things to people (How to play the piano, Braille, Morse, or possibly even teaching young people to read) This could be a huge benefit to people around the world.
If all that is meaningless to you, don’t worry. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way for humans to learn Morse code in four hours just by playing games.
The subjects were given Google Glass headsets (ask your parents) and continued to play games while vibrations near the ear slowly embedded subconscious Morsey goodness into their brains, reported Phys.org.
At the end of a few hours of gaming and clandestine learning the subjects could type a sentence that used all the letters of the alphabet with a 94 per cent success rate. Linear typing of the alphabet in Morse reached a staggering 98 per cent hit rate.
Georgia Tech has pulled this kind of thing before, which it calls Passive Haptic Learning (PHL). Subjects have been taught Braille, how to play the piano and how to feel a hand again after a spinal injury.
So far, the best display for AR is Microvision -- their Nomad headset had a distinct field of view advantage over anything else I tried. I think the company is well positioned in this technology.
This kind of report about a new technology is awesome. Industries are pulling to get this adopted... they want it, and even though the Hololens device is still a "development version" companies are out there creating solutions like this for it. I think this means that development will happen at a faster pace than we think.
That -- and the most wildly popular mobile game created would thrive with this hardware. It was the most popular ever in just a couple of weeks. And it brings people together--- doesn't separate them like virtual reality.
Expectations are super high for Augmented Reality -- and Microvision has a great place in it.
