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Of course such a room is very interesting for information visualisation. I think the next best thing is to hardwire a computer to our brain so we don't need a room for so much resolution. And this also would benefit better use of augmented reality

I went to ISAR in 2000, in those days even SGI's weren't getting close to get all the computing force AR typically needs. I wonder how AR is now developing. AR is maybe more interesting for interaction designers to make virtual interfaces for objects from the real world. I have experience many AR applications on ISAR and it gave me a deep impression which VR never has given me. People who find AR interesting (the next really big thing) should follow this link

PS: if someone wants to prove me the VR experience of this thing I might say "hmm.. maybe that's an interesting offer"

Of course such a room is very interesting for information visualisation. I think the next best thing is to hardwire a computer to our brain so we don't need a room for so much resolution. And this also would benefit better use of augmented reality

I went to ISAR in 2000, in those days even SGI's weren't getting close to get all the computing force AR typically needs. I wonder how AR is now developing. AR is maybe more interesting for interaction designers to make virtual interfaces for objects from the real world. I have experience many AR applications on ISAR and it gave me a deep impression which VR never has given me. People who find AR interesting (the next really big thing) should follow this link

PS: if someone wants to prove me the VR experience of this thing I might say "hmm.. maybe that's an interesting offer"

I love that imagery. It's too bad we can't reify patents so that they could really be stacked like cannonballs. Imagine Microsoft, IBM and other companies each surrounded by their stacked-up patents, fortifications, lawyers and lawsuits as cannons peeking over the battlements, threatening to rain down havoc on anyone who challenges them.

Maybe once we have effective AR systems we'll be able to make manifest the underlying corporate realities which are all so invisible and intangible today. People passing by the Microsoft campus will be able to see the stacked cannonballs and other accoutrements of corporate warfare. It will make for a more colorful world!

I think this would be an real interesting approach to Augmented Reality (or Mixed Reality -- see http://www.augmented-reality.org and Google for information and resources).

Normally, cameras and monitors (goggles, etc) are used to blend additional information into what you would normally see. But using additional senses for it would be interesting, too. At least, I think it would.

Wonder if your brain would be able to take other additional non-visual inputs and kinda-sorta internally superimpose them onto your vision, or if things would get confused because you would have two different sets of sensory input trying to accomplish the same goal (both visual and tactile inputs for visual information, for example).

Either way, this whole thing sounds cool to me, and I would be really interested in seeing how far its use can go.

Peace!

An interesting gaming aspect was covered earlier in Slashdot with this article in which a University was modeled into a Quake map. They ran around with GPS backpacks and had monsters coming out of the faculty lounge! The biggest problem was the refresh rate, as GPS isn't the 40 fps we all hope for.

Another interesting application is face recognition which would then pull up necessary info on the person -- a must-have if you meet lots of people.

That's already being thought about. It's called 'augmented reality'. Check out an into webpage here.

How about this; your braininfo chip contains an image of yourself that's transmitted to your friend whenever you call him (and his image is sent to you). Each AR systems puts an interpolated image of the other one standing in front of him and the two of you are able to have a face to face conversation while your physical bodies are miles apart. Add in pervasive movement sensor fibers sown into all your clothes communicating wirelessly with your skull-implanted cell-phone chips to send your movements to your friend and it will be just like you're there in person. :) Think big.

I'm jealous that ISAR2000(International Symposium on Augmented Reality) didn't get as much press.