[liveblog] Todd Revolt on AR
Posted on:: June 3rd, 2015
Todd Revolt is worth Meta. It has 70 people. It’s shipping a Meta 1 developer kit. You use common hand gestures to manipulate virtual things.
He shows a video of people wearing Oculus Rifts in the real world and failing to navigate. Instead, Meta wants you to be together with people in the real world.
With augmented reality, he says, people know how to work it without training. Examples:
Fourth largest cause of death in the US: medical error. But with AR we can do more useful simulations. You can see the vital signs and the next steps in the procedures.
Princess Leia standing on your clipboard.
