Virtual Reality, VR is most suited for gaming use cases. When wearing a VR headset you see nothing of the outside world. You most certainly cannot do any of the functions of real life like driving a car when wearing a VR Headset. Your view to the real world is completely occluded …blocked…when wearing a VR headset
Augmented Reality is where virtual objects or holograms appear in the real world. Augmented reality devices don’t occlude your vision from doing the normal functions of the real world like walking. Pokemon Go is a good example of an augmented reality game where middle aged men walk through the park looking for virtual objects amidst the real trees and bushes and stretches of grass or fields that would be typical of a park.
Mixed Reality is the bold promise of Augmented Reality. MR has all the features of augmented reality. You can drive a car while wearing mixed reality glasses. But, the virtual objects in MR are interactive. Lets stay with the car metaphor. You are driving and you are wearing an MR device. And you say, ‘Mickey Mantle in the Passenger seat.” or Maurice Richard…. And he appears next to you sitting in the passenger seat and he’s wearing a Habs jersey. And you say, “rocket, where is the closest Putin that is decent and how to I get there?” and then richard functions like a GPS with yelp like ratings help to talk you throught getting there.
Lets skip ML for the minute and go to AI. And let’s stay with the Rocket Richard metaphor.
Artificial intelligence in this use case would be driving towards the putine restaurant and asking Maurice Richard a question like, “hey, rocket, what was your favorite year in hockey?” and the interactive hologram of Maurice Richard would answer back, “Well, Mark, most people would think it was the 44/45 season where I scored 50 goals in the first 50 games. But, really my favorite years were those 5 straight Stanley cups between 56 and 60.”
Another example of AI in the Rocket Richard metaphor would be the ability for the Maurice Richard interactive hologram to see with computer vision. Rocket may say something like, “You really should have stopped at that red light. You cut that one awfully close and you cannot afford another ticket.”
Machine learning paved the way for all this amazing high tech. And the machine learning revolution has really just started. It has exploded in the last couple years and that is because we have so much processing power in the cloud that is inexpensive to use. In the richard use case Machine Learning provides the ability for us to build traffic light classifiers that can be recognized by computer vision. It facilitates the interactive hologram of Maurice Richard to answer questions in context in a human way like “my favorite year was actually a grouping of years.”
Today, and as far as XenoHolographic is concerned we are not talking about Virtual Reality and we are not building solutions for the Virtual Reality industry. AR, MR, AI and ML, however, are very important to the software that Xeno is bringing to market.
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