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Re:Thank you for ad blocking by dheera on Sunday March 20, 2016 @10:33AM (#11323046)
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.
Re:Thank you for ad blocking by realkitkat on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:04AM (#11323188)
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 (#11323659)
That is why I won't trust VR from Facebook. Imagine VR ads!
Re:Thank you for ad blocking by sogen on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:23AM (#11323261)
They live!
Re:Thank you for ad blocking by userbinator on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:37AM (#11323308)
Something similar has been done. Real-world adblocking:

http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/

Re:Thank you for ad blocking by bernardlunn on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:08PM (#11323652)
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
Re:Thank you for ad blocking by aheilbut on Sunday March 20, 2016 @12:18PM (#11323454)
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-...

Re:Thank you for ad blocking by Fiahil on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:30AM (#11323283)
I'm thinking of that every morning when I enter the subway. Oh man, I wish I could use that advertising space like giant windows with live feeds of beautiful landscapes.