Living in a Video Game
Have you ever imagined your life in a video game? What if everything around us was computerized and third dimensional. It would definitely be interesting all right! Well, believe it or not, but this is actually in progress! Have you ever heard of augmented reality? Well, it's basically the technical term for a real video-game-like experience one can have. Researchers and engineers pull graphics from your television and computer and then integrate them in a real world environment. Augmented reality is basically the bridge that has connected us with the video game world. Although this progress in technology can seem a bit overwhelming and excessive, it can be useful in life today. If you are perhaps a tourist, this technology can be useful allowing you to focus on something and instantly know its importance. Or perhaps you're in a new city, you have no idea where you are, and you can't find the bathroom--yes, it will even help you find a bathroom. This is all very impressive technology, but our engineers and researchers continue to impress us. Check out this video to see where researchers see augmented reality taking us:
The Internet of Things. Our world is literally changing right in front of us, how are we going to keep up? I don't know about you guys, but while all this is great, it's a little overwhelming to me. What do you think?
I am probably in the minority, but I am not a big fan of this idea. It is brilliant and probably has good uses, but I am an old fashioned guy and I do not like the idea of technology taking over the world and every aspect of our lives. I think this is the start of dumbing our society even more. Before google we had to do actual research, and now with this we wont even have to think, we will just have our computers tell us what we are thinking. I think enough people have a hard enough time as it is with all of the technology and video games to actually live and interact in the real world, that throwing this in will just turn us into the movie Wall-E.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Logan. Technology is killing our generation. There are people that can't turn around their car and get back to where they started from because they used their phone/GPS to get to where they are. It seems to me that this technology is essentially a GPS for our apple juice. Do we really want to get to the point that we can't even find our own groceries? Personally, that's absurd.
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