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Augmented Reality Ducks

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90 pointsAmorymeltzer19 comments

> But, more importantly, it shows just how fantastic software is these days. How spoiled we are to carry supercomputers in our pockets. In less than 200 lines of code, I used these incredible frameworks developed by Apple to get this idiotic idea working in an evening.

This was for me the essence of the post. We live in times that enable (some of) us to create fun stuff like this unbelievably easy.

It's a great little piece, commenting on both the hope and the worry in a single lark.

We live in interesting times. The potential is huge, in both directions.

You mean, in a single duck...

I definitely agree with you about "both directions" - especially when those "supercomputers in our pockets" aren't really under our control.

Indeed, I buried the lede in this post. But I wanted to have fun with such a silly idea, first.

I liked it. Was a great read. The buried lead up front would have spoiled the fun imho.

> There's just no ducking way around it. Short of adding a fake contact to your address book named Dr. Duck Ducking McDucker, autocorrect seems ducking incapable of learning everyone's favorite bit of profanity.

In keyboard shortcuts, add the words you want not-autocorrected to both sides of the shortcut, eg:

fuck -> fuck

fucking -> fucking

This will make autocorrect learn them once and for all.

More specifically:

Settings > general > keyboards > text replacement. Then add all your profanity words as phrases

I ducking hate mobile auto-correct too, so I turned it off. I've become a better thumb typer and now own what I type. And I do use "ducking" since I don't like to swear ;)

Still waiting for AR to catch on. I mean it's a cool concept, but it requires special equipment usually suited for the eye (like Google Glass). And we all know what happened to Google Glass.

I think for AR to really catch on, the devices for it need to be invisible. Imagine a device that's inserted into the retina and blends in with the machinery of the eye for example? With nano-tech, it's doable.

AR is going to have to fight and uphill battle for adoption. Many of us have see the damage smartphones and social media have done to society, and AR is presented as the next step after those two ideas. That might be completely unfair, but just like I’ll never signup to any new social media platform, because of Facebook, I won’t buy into AR because of smartphones.

I would say that most people will not share that same hesitancy. I believe that most people do not identify their smartphone as a problem; it's a productivity and entertainment tool.

Now, myself, AR, and especially AR implants of the kind the OP was talking about, are a hard pass until they are sold to me, with no external connections other than those I can absolutely control to the finest detail. While I may want it to help me identify people because I'm bad at names, I don't want it phoning home with those names and faces and logging it for some company/country somewhere.

In other words, AR is almost certainly completely out of the question for me. Which is sad, because I used to be absolutely pumped for the day terminals and brain-laces were available like in The Culture.

Glass wasn't really AR as much as just a HUD.

Or take the Hololens2 as an example. That device earned Microsoft a $22B contract.

I think people will wear glasses for the experience. Two hand based AR is the future. We just need miniaturization at this point. By the time that happens, the software will be there. The policies probably not so much. VoicesOfVR on Twitter is talking about the ethics and related.

Apple's Memoji's give you a preview of how their VR is going to work. They are already mapping your facial expressions onto an animated image in realtime. Add a headset/glasses and a virtual room and they are done.

It was a nice touch to use the Duck system alert sound from the old MacOS.

</nostalgia>

Apologies, but I initially read it as AR Sucks instead of the ducking intended quack. Regardless, this is a fun little project that can be useful in case your work asks you to develop AR solutions.

Also, QUACK!

I was hoping for a bunch of AR ducks running around. ;)

Reminds me of the episode Arkangel of Black Mirror

Ducking awesome!

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