ARinAction at MIT Media Lab - January 17, 2017.

ARinAction at MIT Media Lab - January 17,18, 2017. Latest on Augmented Reality. Talks were great. Especially the short talks. Too many to cover all. But especially intrigued by Neurable and Virtual Cove. The demos were great, when they worked *grin*, but such is life. Panels... well they were "okay". AR and VR events always have stuff about new headsets and displays. Those are probably necessary steps, but it all gets a bit tedious. Real uses and better ways that reality can be made... well... more real are the key. We need to make our actions more informed and effective... based on truth.

Beliefs:
AR is extremely dangerous if it will give us an experience of multiple different truths. The power of AR is to make clearer to us immediately the common truth of reality. Industrial AR is rationally taking up this banner for its intrinsic practicality of common understanding. Headsets and tablets are only a step on the way forward. David Rose's Enchanted Objects are the goal. Screens allow us to have reality mediated to our own taste. What if hyper intelligent edge devices spoke the truth? We need to instead understand reality more deeply for what it is, not what we want it to be. Hyperspectral imaging (like IR and Xrays) go to the goal of deeply understanding reality.  Sensor and fact based analytics to give us more information and truth.

Actions:
Work to use modern compute and technology, especially in edge devices, to better exhibit the truth of reality.