Re:Thank you for ad blocking
by dheera on Sunday March 20, 2016 @10:33AM
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I want to build an augmented reality app (that runs on, say, HoloLens) that blocks all ads in real life and replaces them with historic works of art.
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Re:Thank you for ad blocking
by realkitkat on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:04AM
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Just a thoight, but in all likelihood it will be the exact opposite. With the eventual proliferation of functional VR tech that is available for everyone, we're likely to see every surface turn into an advertisement space. Every surface being re-painted in interior designs, and other content from the future VR advertisement conglomerates. Thus, with adblocked augmented reality, we may indeed be looking at a dystopian future of a world of plain and clean [morphing] surfaces that only exist to be augmented.
Re:Thank you for ad blocking
by bernardlunn on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:10PM
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That is why I won't trust VR from Facebook. Imagine VR ads!
They live!
Re:Thank you for ad blocking
by userbinator on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:37AM
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Something similar has been done. Real-world adblocking:
Re:Thank you for ad blocking
by bernardlunn on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:08PM
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Wonderful idea. Show how it will transform some horrible highways like New Jersey Turnpike? But augmented reality and driving are a bad idea. Uber drivers can hand out the viewer
Many years ago, after the University of Toronto installed ads in the bathrooms, Steve Mann set up his Eyetap system to replace the ads with pictures of waterfalls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/science/scientist-at-work-...