AR/VR

Opinions on The
State of the industry
by < chris@chrisgrayson.com >

Contents:
Where VR went wrong,
why this matters to AR
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Smartglasses
general purpose
AR interface
Other notable
developments
Consumer face recognition
& Mesh-networks
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Where VR went wrong,

why this matters to AR
and how to set it right.
Where VR content went off course 3

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Oculus Rift
ships to the consumer

Consumer Stereoscopic
(class of 2011)

For CES 2011, stereoscopic cameras were a thing. Many were introduced but now no longer available.
The trend peaked prematurely. The problem in 2011 was that there were no good 3D content consumption
devices, VR headsets were still a few years away. You could take stereoscopic 3D images and videos, but
there were very few ways to view them. The personal viewers that existed were little more than glorified
Victorian era stereoscopes.
Where VR content went off course 4

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Oculus Oculus DK1 Oculus Rift

Kickstarter ships ships to the consumer

Oculus & The 2nd coming of VR

Oculus launched their Kickstarter in 2012, by the time they came to market in
2016, there were many other pretenders joining the fray.

The focus shifted to gaming where 360° content is the norm. With the gaming
industry in the driver’s seat, and with 360° the standard approach, it was
taken as a given that 360° was best for all things (and even treated as more
important than depth).
Stereoscopic cameras were off the market just before headsets arrived.
 Where VR content went off course
2011 2012
Consumer 360° (The Dead end)
On 360° Cinema
“It’s nonsense,
you are looking forward, and
sometimes left and right,
but not behind you.
It’s really a waste of pixels.”
—Greg Madison
UX, Unity
source: Fast Companyx x
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Then the consumer market was flooded with 360º
cameras, most of them ball shaped. This category was a
huge distraction.
A good test for gadget success in the mass consumer
market is, “How will a smartphone eat this?”
In the short run, new gadgets come along as standalone
What is 360° devices. They typically achieve mass market success if
video good for? they are “pocketable,” and if so, they are only viable up
• Real Estate until they are absorbed into the smartphone. Phone?
• Entertainment events: Music Player? Digital Assistant/Day Planner? Camera?
• Sports All now merely features or apps on our smartphones.
• Music Ball shaped 360º cameras are neither pocketable nor a
… but not for either form factor easily absorbed into a smartphone … and
cinematic or UGC most do not even capture in stereoscopic, so the “VR”
3D video content. experience is an inside-the-cylinder effect.
Where VR content went off course 6
…and why it matters to AR (to go forward, take one step back)
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Who will show leadership?

“Camera-Through” AR The stereoscopic camera in a phone was the right direction, but the lenses need to
be placed at the proper pupillary-distance, aprox. 60mm, to match human scale.
Vintage examples:

Vuzix camera-through AR

Camera-through attachments shown on
NVIS & Sensics VR headsets in years past.
To go forward, AR needs to take one step back. This turns any phone-based
VR headset into an AR headset via camera-through, just as AR was performed in
pre-2011 AR & VR headsets.
With the size of the iPhone’s hardware market, if Apple adopted this approach, it
would both flood the market with UGC VR content, as well as create a transitional
stage from smartphone to AR smartglasses.
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Notable Had the industry not lost focus and taken

a distracting detour with 360° cameras,
stereoscopic camera smartphones could have been both
a boon for UGC VR content, as well as
the basis for camera-through AR.

Course correction
Lucid is principally a VR video
editing software company.
CEO Han Jin says they
introduced their stereoscopic
camera, LucidCam, because If a player steps up to shows some leadership, this can still happen.
there were no good
consumer stereoscopic Apple should have done it with the introduction of the iPhone 7. I’ve lost
cameras on the market. confidence that Apple is going to show industry leadership. Given the
LucidCam is a reference
model. Han also agrees with
introduction of both the Surface Studio and HoloLens, I’m most inclined to view
Greg Madison of Unity, and Microsoft as the innovation leader among large tech companies today. As a Mac
this author, that 360º video is, user since the 80s, I don’t say that casually and would love to be proven wrong.
in most cases, a distraction.
I write with unwavering conviction: If just one major handset maker stepped up
and introduced a smartphone with a stereoscopic camera*, capable of
UGC VR video and camera-through AR, it would do more to propel both
the VR & AR industries forward than another dozen me-too headsets, or
anything happening in the AR smartglasses space.

* it has to happen at scale, so it has to be from a major handset maker — a startup simply cannot do it —in fact, Apple or Samsung may be the only two players
with enough market share to impact the market — though in their absence, another handset maker could make a big splash in the market by moving fast.
 Where VR content went off course
Notable
Occipital’s volumetric mapping
tech is similar to that which
Microsoft uses in Kinect, or the
Apple acquired Prime Sense.
The Occipital Bridge headset
combines their Structure Sensor
and some impressive software,
creating a camera-through inside-
out mapping AR experience.
The Structure
Sensor is also
available stand-
alone for iOS.
Sources:
1 Sony Corporation’s final calendar quarter is their Q3 fiscal quarter, hence quarters are reported here as holiday 2016 quarter.
2 Apple reported their Q4 2016 iPhone sales.
3 iDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Feb. 1 2017
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To The Detractors
Don’t let the Perfect
be the Enemy of The Good.
I receive a lot of industry resistance to my advocacy
of stereoscopy in smartphone cameras. It comes in
the form of two arguments, both almost entirely from
those in the gaming space: Notable
The hand gesture tracking of
• Those who say 180º stereoscopic capture for UGC
Leap Motion, as demonstrated
is not VR, to be VR is must be 360º capture and for VR, also has cross-over
anything less should not be tolerated. application in AR.
• Those who say only six-degrees of freedom of
movement through volumetric space is VR and
anything less should not be tolerated.
To both I say:
Sony sold 9.7M PS4’s in the holiday quarter of 20161.
In the same quarter Apple sold 78.3M iPhones2
and the total Android market sold 350.2M3.
 Volumetric broadcast is the holy grail.
Notable
8i is currently leading the industry
in volumetric capture. They’ve
just raised a $27M series B led by
Time Warner Investments. They’re
the hottest thing in volumetric
capture at this time. I expect their
main competition to come from
the Hollywood special effects
industry. It should be no surprise
that they’re based in LA.
Cappasity is a small startup out
of Russia that relocated to Silicon
Valley. Recently pivoting from
game avatars to focus on the
apparel industry and the multi-
billion-dollar problem of online-fit.
They are an intel partner, but their
software works with other capture
hardware as well.
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Yes, of course, volumetric
Don’t let the Perfect
be the Enemy of The Good.
There are use cases where 360° is acceptable. There
are use cases where 180° is preferable. There are use
cases where directed stereoscopic works best … Notable
Volumetric Simplygon
…but broadcasting volumetrically captured content is
coming. Everyone in the industry knows it is the metric Microsoft just keeps winning.
against which all other VR content will measured. They recently acquired Simplygon,
maker of compression software
Between startups, gaming, industrial products in the that substantially reduces the
engineering and medical field, and motion capture in polygon count of 3D models.
special effects — there are too many hardware players in When content is volumetrically
the space to mention here. scanned, it is first a point
The software companies to watch are those that can cloud model that must then be
converted into polygons — facets
take the point cloud data from capture devices, convert
that comprise an object’s surface.
it to polygons of acceptable resolution for display, and A complex shape can comprise
compress them enough to push through a pipe … and millions of polygons, fine for
eventually do all of this on the fly so that the content can special effects post production,
be streamed at an acceptable frame rate. but far too large to stream.
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Optically transparent
displays
Optical see-through displays 11

Waveguides
Today, there are only three companies that matter in waveguides.
Why? Because there are only three who have shown they can go all the way to manufacturing.
Hardware is hard. Near-eye optics are very hard. Waveguides are harder still.
Going from an engineering concept to a functional prototype is exceptionally
difficult. Taking that IP from prototype to a scalable, manufacturable product is
much more difficult than filing patents and issuing press releases (It’s clearly
more difficult than raising money).

Nokia Lumus DigiLens

Nokia’s surface relief waveguides are
used by Microsoft in their HoloLens
device. Their IP is also licensed by
Vuzix who raised money from Intel
to build a manufacturing plant in
New York for their M3000. Nokia has
not only shown that they can scale
to manufacturing, but their Vuzix
deal shows that their manufacturing
process itself can be replicated.
The physics of their surface relief
design hits a wall at about 30° FOV.
Lumus’ design is the simplest of the
waveguides on the market. They have
none-the-less shown this design can
be mass produced and are providing
waveguides to both Daqri and Atheer.
Lumus has shown they can do more
than technology, they can do business:
they’ve worked with Optivent, Meta and
collaborated with Himax.
Lumus recently closed $45M in
additional funding from HTC, Quanta
and Shanda Group.
DigiLens has a much lower profile in the consumer
space than either Nokia or Lumus. They’ve principally
been a supplier / partner of Rockwell Collins in the
avionics space. In addition to their classified work for
the U.S. military, they’re the supplier to Rockwell Collins’
waveguide display systems for Embraer Legacy 450 &
500 cockpit displays. They have most recently entered
the consumer space with BMW’s smart helmet. They have
an aggressive road-map to increase FOV.
While Nokia and Lumus’ offerings are passive lenses,
DigiLens’ waveguides are active — a liquid crystal based
structure that is electrically switchable. They recently
closed $22M in additional funding from Sony / Foxconn.

But what about … I continue to be bullish on DigiLens.

I’m also watching TruLife Optics and Akonia Holographics to see if they can take their designs to manufacturing. My skepticism of Magic Leap
does not stem from their recent PR problems, but from their ability to take their ambitious designs to manufacture (or even to prototype?).
Kayvan Mirza of Optivent recently wrote a Magic Leap Analysis that is recommended reading.
Optical see-through displays 12

Waveguides
Addendum

Journey Technologies
In the course of writing this report, I was contacted
by the founder of Journey Technologies of Beijing.
She boasted that they have a design “like Lumus,”
with a 36° FOV and 1280x720 resolution.
She claims they can manufacture 500 units per
month, and can “easily” ramp up to 1000 per month
with their existing manufacturing facility.
She included a photo of their optical unit that
indeed resembled Lumus’ design.
The Chinese are masters of reverse engineering
and the Lumus design is very basic, making them
vulnerable to commoditization.
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Others
There are other near-eye-optic see-through display systems besides
waveguides. Meta is notable for their exceptionally wide, 90° FOV, the widest
on the market. It is a beautiful display. I compare the Meta 2 display to the
top-of-the-line graphic work station displays of the late 90s. Even as flat-panel
displays came onto the market in the early oughts, a nice CRT still had better
color and higher resolution, and a 21” Viewsonic was a larger screen than
anything available in an LCD … but clearly
the writing was on the wall. META 2

To achieve Meta’s incredible field of view,

they project a panel onto a Pepper’s
ghost style combiner — a semi-reflective
transparent screen that allows the viewer
to see their environment through the
ODG R9
reflection.

These will ultimately become obsolete as

waveguides grow in FOV. Until then, the Meta 2 is excellent for UI development in AR.

One notable exception to the waveguide trend in low profile displays is ODG (Osterhout Design Group), whose R9 has a
magnified OLED micro-display projecting into an outward beam-splitter, onto a reflector/combiner, all in a slim (-ish) form
factor, featuring both a higher resolution, and a 50° FOV that rivals that of current waveguides. It is also worth mentioning
that they don’t suffer the display artifacts of current generation waveguides including halo/glow and rainbow-ing image
distortion. Just as with the inferior image quality of early generation flat-panels, these problems will be solved in time.*
* You can read a good counter argument against waveguides at Karl Guttag’s blog, Magic Leap & Hololens: Waveguide Ego Trip?
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Smartglasses
general purpose
AR interface
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Smartglasses
general purpose
AR interface
Waveguides +
Eye-Tracking
Depth Sensors
Computer vision
electroencephalogram (EEG)
Smartglasses: a general purpose AR interface 16

EYe-Tracking
Eye-Tracking alone can substantially improve image quality in AR & VR by enabling foveated rendering —
rendering in highest resolution only that portion of the display directly where the user is looking — putting less
burden on the GPU and allowing for higher frame rates.
Coupled with depth sensors and computer vision, things get much more interesting. If the device knows both where
the user is looking, and has an understanding of the environment (i.e.: knows what the user is looking at), we only
need to add intent (user command). It is in this context where I will make the case for Eye-Tracking + EEG.

Voice Command is Overrated

Voice as command interface is convenient
Where People Use Voice Assistants
when in the privacy of one’s home, or in Users of smartphone-based voice assistants who use them in the following locations
an automobile. It looses its appeal when in
an office or any public environment.

51% 39% 6% 1%

in the car at home in public at the office

Based on a survey of 500 consumers in the United States Source: Business Insider / Creative Strategies Creative Commons cc BY-ND

Waveguides + Eye-Tracking +
Sensors + Cv + EEG for A | B
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Voice is for
language translation See Real-time Skype Translation
by Microsoft Research.

Talk to anyone in any langue, and they hear

your translation in real time to any language.
Listen to anyone speaking any language,
and hear them in the language of your choice.

Voice Command is Overrated

Voice as command interface is convenient
when in the privacy of one’s home, or in
an automobile. It looses its appeal when in
an office or any public environment.

International
Language
translation
Waveguides + Eye-Tracking +
Sensors + Cv + EEG for A | B + Speaker + Microphone
 Smartglasses: a general purpose AR interface
electroencephalogram (EEG)
“EEG based brain computer interface has
demonstrated its capability to control a
device such as controlling the fly of a model
helicopter. The EEG based binary input
device shall become available in the near
future depending on the market needs.”
—Dr. Bin He, University of Minnesota
EEG AS Command
EEG still has a substantially slower
response time than that of a human finger
on a mouse. On the following page
Dr. Geoff Mackellar, CEO, Emotiv gives a
more nuance and cautious analysis.
Waveguides + Eye-Tracking +
Sensors + Cv + EEG for A | B
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AB UI Analogy:
An A | B selection via EEG is
derivative of a two button mouse
and the user’s eyes as the cursor.
Notables in the consumer EEG device space
include interXon (maker of Muse), Personal
Neuro (maker of Spark), and Emotiv (maker
of Epoc+, and Insight). All currently marketed as
wellness products, with various meditative features, Emotiv has
an SDK for third-party developers, some of whom are already
experimenting with using EEG for command.
Smith Lowdown Focus MUSE by interXon Personal Neuro
by Spark
NOTABLE:
Safilo’s SMITH brand of
eye-frames have partnered Emotiv Epoc+ Emotiv Insight
with interXon to introduce
the Smith Lowdown Focus,
Mpowered by Muse. The
form factor is proven
possible, though the
functionality is, at this
time, still limited to Muse’s
meditation app.
Smartglasses: a general purpose AR interface
electroencephalogram (EEG)
EEG AS Command
EEG still has a substantially slower
response time than that of a human finger
on a mouse. Dr. Geoff Mackellar,
CEO, Emotiv gives a more
nuanced and cautious analysis.
While EEG-based response may not
be fast enough to compete with motor
signals “in general,” it is still the opinion
of this author that the trade-offs in privacy
for voice command and social acceptance
for gestural interfaces will make EEG the
winning UI in most consumer user cases.
Waveguides + Eye-Tracking +
Sensors + Cv + EEG for A | B
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… with Caveat
There are several issues in calculating latency for any response. The Sensory
Detection Time is the basic brain response time - typically around 210-260ms
depending on age, for an unfamiliar but expected task. This is the point at which
the brain has decided to act and starts to initiate the motor signal in response,
which takes around 100ms to execute. Sensory Detection time and the motor
delay are both reduced for highly trained tasks, so for example athletes and
very experienced gamers can reduce the overall reaction time to specific kinds
of events as a result of habituation.
Emotiv offers a direct mental command system based
on a user-trained set of reproducible mental patterns
which are related by a machine-learning classifier system as belonging to each
of the commands. In this case the classification is made at 250ms intervals,
based on analysis of the most recent second of data. Latency in this case
depends both on the computational side, with an expected delay of around
250ms, and the user’s ability to form the mental state, which depends on the
user’s experience level and ranges from 50ms to several seconds. These delays
occur end-on with the ordinary Sensory Detection Time, where the subject must
form the intention to act before starting the process.
Additional latencies much also be taken into account for EEG systems. Firstly,
the signal processing chain usually includes finite impulse response filters
to remove signal artefacts such as the 50/60Hz line hum present almost
everywhere. This is picked up from the electrical mains supply and contributes
very large artefacts into the data stream. Typical filter have an inherent latency
of 50-60 milliseconds. Computational effects also introduce latency, where
a series of calculations must be made and these are generally applied to a
retrospective signal, often in the range of 0.25-5 seconds.
In general, EEG-based is not fast enough to compete with direct motor signals
except in cases where the subject’s motor system is compromised.
— Dr. Geoff Mackellar, CEO, Emotiv
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Other things
worth mentioning
Worth mentioning exhibit A 21

At this early stage, Microsoft and Intel should not

be considered late to the metaverse.
SOMETHING TO PROVE
Intel lost out on the smartphone market to
Project Alloy Windows 10 vr Partners
ARM, and aims not to make that same mistake
again. Cutting deals with Google, Recon, Vuzix
and Luxottica, they’ve all but locked down the
processor market for AR smartglasses, and they
can be expected to go after the VR market just as
aggressively.
Microsoft has chosen to follow their previous
path of success in the desktop / laptop market by
extending Windows 10 into headsets, relying on
their hardware partners to flood the market with
low-cost VR headsets.
Microsoft and Intel are very much in the game.
Worth mentioning AGAIN
exhibit B 22

While included on the waveguides page, DigiLens

deserves closer examination ­­— they have proven
they can not only make active waveguides, they
can mass produce them, and at a lower cost than
others can make passive lenses.
The Sleeping Unicorn
Starting in military industrial, DigiLens has
diversified into aviation with Rockwell Collins for
Embraer, then into motorcycle helmets with BMW,
and are now pursuing automotive partnerships.
Their technology is the market leader in
waveguides, yet until a recent investment from
Sony / Foxconn they had never even been
mentioned in TechCrunch.
Don’t Believe the hype
Let’s put DigiLens into context: MagicLeap has raised over a billion dollars with a $4.5B valuation, yet has not thus far been able
to demonstrate that they can make technology that DigiLens has already brought to manufacturing. There is a world of difference
between being able to do a once off in a lab environment vs scaling to manufacturing at a market-acceptable price.
Some will point out that MagicLeap’s secret sauce is adaptive focus. But if they cannot yet even manufacture active
waveguides, who will get to adaptive focus first?
Only a few companies have shown that they can even manufacture passive waveguides, and DigiLens alone has demonstrated that
they can manufacture active waveguides. TruLife Optics of the UK claims to have produced an active lens in a lab, yet the entirety
of their reassurance that they can take that to manufacturing is a single sentence on their website that reads, “TruLife Optics is
exploring manufacturing options and is confident that our optic will be available in quantity for companies and or individuals wishing
to incorporate them into their products.” Really? Prove it. … Akonia Holographics of Colorado spent a decade (unsuccessfully) trying
to developing holographic storage. While their team may possess some transferable expertise in holographic technology and they’re
worth watching, DigiLens has spent the same decade developing holographic wavesguides and succeeded.
My prediction: DigiLens is a sleeping unicorn and will likely exit via a bidding war that may include Apple, among others.
Worth mentioning exhibit c 23

goTenna entered the market via a crowd-

sourced campaign billed as a P2P antenna,
purportedly aimed at wilderness hikers — keep
in contact with your companion when outside of
the range of cell towers. They executed their
goTenna is a mesh-network. go-to market strategy brilliantly. Though their
goTenna is not the new walkie-talkie. antenna current works for text-messaging, they
are often referred to as the new “walkie-talkie.”
When incorporated into
every connected device,
mesh-networks will disrupt
the global telecommunications industry
and upend the state surveillance apparatus.

Mesh-networks are coming

Jott, a messaging app, uses low energy If many are turning
Bluetooth or a router that can reach to apps like Signal,
for their end-to-end
within 100 feet of each user, to create a encryption, consider the
mesh-network among users to send P2P privacy advantages of
a P2P platform where
messages. It is favored by many elementary the internet itself is
and Jr. high school kids, who typically have bypassed all together.
less control of their own data plans.
While Jott’s user base is still relatively small, I predict that either
Jott, or an app like it could ride the same “privacy” wave that is
currently catapulting the use of Signal.
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Face recognition
Why Mesh-networks matter to AR
 Consumer Face Recognition 25

The wrong way

to do face recognition
A database of face profiles
is stored in the cloud.
The object of the observer’s gaze
is referenced against the cloud
database.
In the conventional framework,
the observed loses all agency
over their own identity.
In recent years, particularly in public spaces
in first-world high density urban environments,
and international points of public transit, being
surveilled by the state is the new normal.
However, there has up to now been an
unwritten social contract that, at least among
strangers, people imagine themselves to be
anonymous in the crowd. Discomfort arises
with the breaking of this social contract.

Why Mesh-networks matter to AR

At Mobile World Congress in 2010 & 2011, multiple
Doing it wrong smartphone based augmented reality, face recognition
mobile app, proof-of-concepts were demonstrated. None
were ever introduced to market.
In 2014 Google banned face recognition apps from the
Google Glass app store, citing privacy concerns.
In December 2016 Blippar announced their intention to introduce face recognition as a new feature 2010 2010
in their upcoming release of their iPhone app, more notably, it has been reported* that Blippar intends
to encourage users to contribute face-and-name pairs to their database, without seeking consent
from the individuals featured. Though the announcement was made over two months ago, no such
update has yet appeared in the iOS app store. It is my speculation that Apple has withheld approval.
2011
* As reported in Newsweek.
Consumer Face Recognition
The Right way
to do face recognition
Instead
The user maintains an
encrypted version of
their own face profile
locally on their
own device.
No Database
The cloud is often overrated,
but I digress.
Why Mesh-networks matter to AR
As recently proposed at MIT Media Lab
In my recent lecture
at MIT Media Lab,
I made my case for
face recognition
as the killer app
for consumer
augmented reality.
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In the proposed framework,
the observed retains agency
over their own identity.
Via a local area
mesh network, users
who run the app can
then set preferences
as to who they
share their key with.
Individual observers,
or groups
can be blocked.
The Case for
Consumer Face Recognition
in Augmented Reality
by Christopher Grayson
MIT Media Lab, AR in Action.
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The case for consumer

face recognition The case for consumer face recognition is not to identify strangers
that you don’t know, but to identify and be recognized by
the people whom you do know.
Dunbar’s One of Dunbar’s non-eponymous
Two use cases for consumer face recognition —
Number: numbers:
one medical and one modern:
150
Approximate number
1500
Approximate number of names that
Medical: For treating Alzheimer’s and other aphasia inducing
of people that the the typical person can associate
expressive language deficits.
typical person can with a face: includes friends, family,
maintain meaningful and all notable contemporary and
Cognitive Enhancement: The work of anthropologist and
relationships. historical figures. evolutionary psychologist, Robin Dunbar suggest that the evolution
of human tribal relationships has placed cognitive limits our ability
to associate names to about 1500 faces, yet it is now becoming
common to manage social networks of substantially larger numbers.

Why microsoft’s Linkedin Acquisition

Also Matters to ar
Given Dunbar’s research, and given that the business model of a social
network follows a variation of Metcalfe’s Law — Linkedin’s business
would greatly benefit from face recognition enhanced personal network
management. Add to this, Microsoft’s own industry leadership in AR,
(including Face API), Microsoft is the candidate best positioned to take
the lead on this implementation.
I have agitated for advocated for this consumer face recognition
framework to the Linkedin UI/UX leadership, as well as members of
Microsoft’s AR team.
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Conclusions
While the media treats VR as the new gaming console, Represented by
I see both VR and AR as globally transformative
technologies — something as big as the invention For custom Reports By
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of the telephone, on par with the invention of the
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Virtual Reality, the ability to place two or more people
from anywhere in the world into the same virtual space
— potentially infinite in size, with a sense of presence —
will sweep away national borders, challenge the
global political landscape, and possibly even change
the way we think of humanity itself.
This report has been a collection of observations,
ideas, and opinions, loosely connected by the
common theme of virtual and augmented reality.
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