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Gaga, Bowie, the Grammys, and the Internet of Augmented Things (windowsitpro.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the gagas-new-reality dept.

v3rgEz writes: Want to see the future of interoffice communications? Lady Gaga might be a surprising muse, but her tribute to David Bowie last night at the Grammys showcased the increasing sophistication of augmented reality dash - technology that might soon find its way into an office near you. In fact, just a few days ago, JPL opened up a little bit about how they were using the augmented reality, via HoloLens, to build virtual prototypes for engineers to kick around and play test, without having to physically fabricate a thing.

42 comments

  1. FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    FOR A SHIT STORY

    1. Re: FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Oh, no... My butt trumpet is about to blow...

    2. Re:FIRST POST by whipslash · · Score: 2

      The technology is pretty cool. Are you saying it's shit just because it mentions something from popular culture?

    3. Re:FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When I actually look at it, kinda interesting but sparse on details. Didn't watch the vid though. Shit because comment was a shit post, sparked by "Internet of.." in the title. Dont take too much notice

    4. Re:FIRST POST by whipslash · · Score: 1

      Glad you agree. Sometimes I think people just snap if there are any references they find not to their taste

    5. Re:FIRST POST by whipslash · · Score: 1

      Alrighty

    6. Re:FIRST POST by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      Short on details because that's how the internet works that way. The information superhighway is now just a superhighway. I suspect someone just provides some detail once, then a youtube video references that with a "see link in the comments section", then a web site has a short blurb that embeds a link to the video, then 391 different web sites all refer to that one site, and 8617 web sites refer to those web sites, and so forth. The web crawlers from Mars. All those sites all talking about the same thing but all of them providing an executive summary that's short on information.

    7. Re:FIRST POST by rmdingler · · Score: 2
      It's a reflection of the trend towards a utopia where no one is ever offended, not even slightly.

      What? I've clicked on a story that offends my delicate sensibilities?

      Heads will friggin' roll for this.

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    8. Re:FIRST POST by Archfeld · · Score: 1

      AC's posting here have raised trolling to an art, and often just post flame bait to try and lure someone into commenting back. The idea of the tech is sort of cool, the actual real world implementation was sadly lacking but it will get there, for better or worse. I personally think that for the most part the IoT is trendy and will likely fade into a niche market for a while yet, but heck I bought a Betamax and figured HDDVD was the way to go, so my track record is not good. As for Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, she has a great voice and is quite talented but could not make it in the music industry with out the flash and image, hence the train wreck named Lady Gaga.

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    9. Re:FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I mean... I was only here to go on a rant about how "augmented reality dash" is a concept I'm not familiar with.

      The implicit mental handicaps that I perceived in the editorial staff alongside the use of that terminology have very little to do with it.

    10. Re:FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Short on details because that's how the internet works that way. The information superhighway is now just a superhighway. I suspect someone just provides some detail once, then a youtube video references that with a "see link in the comments section", then a web site has a short blurb that embeds a link to the video, then 391 different web sites all refer to that one site, and 8617 web sites refer to those web sites, and so forth. The web crawlers from Mars. All those sites all talking about the same thing but all of them providing an executive summary that's short on information.

      This post gets all my mod points for the foreseeable future.
      Internet discussion boards and blogs as an information resource are the very epitome of the phrase, "..there's no there there".

  2. No comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    While artists doesn't come with something consistent like predicting life waves - Something people doesn't need waiting 1000 years to find out that only life itself has its purpose, instead of droping a bombs - ... I argue with no fruit loop.

  3. Want to see the future of interoffice communicatio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No

  4. MLP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Augmented reality Dash? Is there also an augmented reality Twilight Sparkle?

    1. Re:MLP by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      What about an augmented reality Fluttershy? <whisper>yay!</whisper> (warning: NSFW!)

  5. Gaga can't do a good Bowie because she is butch. by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 2

    Sorry Ms but you don't even come close to this, http://www.thatericalper.com/w... and any attempt to do so just comes out looking like this https://static-secure.guim.co....

  6. The Internet of Augmented Things? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

    Trinity: Augment this ! (fires at Gaga, Bowie, the grammys)

    1. Re:The Internet of Augmented Things? by sconeu · · Score: 1

      I thought they were talking about all the boobs on the people at the Grammies

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    2. Re:The Internet of Augmented Things? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or the SAG Awards?

      Nothing sagging on the 'augmented' Susan Sarandon. Rowr!

  7. Augment this by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Informative

    That Lady Gaga tribute to Bowie was absolutely awful. I don't care about the special effects. She trivialized and commoditized a great artist without adding any insight into his work. A medley of his hits from 30-40 years ago, with costume changes and effects. It might just as well have been some Branson, Missouri dinner show.

    There was a lot more going on in Bowie's music than just fashion and feather boas. My wife actually had to calm me down because I was about to kick over the TV.

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    1. Re:Augment this by shess · · Score: 2

      Well, it was the grammy awards. Not sure why you'd expect anything better.

    2. Re:Augment this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So true: I too was cursing the box and wondering what dinner theatre this tripe was fermenting in. What would have made a good tribute? A cover of Jacques Brel's "My Death" on the 12 string, of course.

    3. Re:Augment this by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2

      What would have made a good tribute? A cover of Jacques Brel's "My Death" on the 12 string, of course.

      That's good. I can think of 20 artists off the top of my head who could have done a more fitting and appropriate tribute to Bowie than Lady Gaga (she, of the putrid tribute to Julie Andrews at last year's Oscars).

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    4. Re:Augment this by jandersen · · Score: 1

      That Lady Gaga tribute to Bowie was absolutely awful.

      Well, David Bowie was unique. It wasn't just his style or persona, but his virtuosity; I remember watching him on Top of the Pops, him and his band playing together like a well oiled, classical orchestra of virtuosos, completely without all the electronic aids used by modern stage artists - no miming to a playback tape, no automatic correction of pitch or rhythm, but performed to absolute perfection. Anybody will sound like a fork grating over a dinner plate compared to that.

    5. Re:Augment this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That Lady Gaga tribute to Bowie was absolutely awful.

      Correct. It should have been Beyonce.

    6. Re:Augment this by bkr1_2k · · Score: 2

      It's the Grammy's for fuck's sake. You shouldn't expect anything of value to come out of it, and the fact that you spent the time to watch it live says as much about your musical taste as anything in your post ever could.

      So they butchered Bowie. Would you really expect anything less? They butcher every great artist, given enough time. The show is there to monetize the music industry and nothing monetizes the music industry more than a death of a beloved musician. They'd have been fools not to do something like this and you don't successfully monetize anything by getting an "unknown" to do a tribute. Would it have been better? Possibly, but it wouldn't have sold anything.

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    7. Re:Augment this by fbobraga · · Score: 1

      Well, it was the grammy awards. Not sure why you'd expect anything better.

      Grammy Award (as Oscar's) is a big opportunity (wasted, in this case) to let a good artistic performance be seen by many people, worldwide (the awards given are laughable ^^)

    8. Re:Augment this by fbobraga · · Score: 1

      Anybody will sound like a fork grating over a dinner plate compared to that.

      it's not in question, but the quality of used/researched stuff from Bowie :P

    9. Re:Augment this by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      It's the Grammy's for fuck's sake. You shouldn't expect anything of value to come out of it

      I guess I'm still hoping the Grammys will repeat that one time they were cool:

      https://youtu.be/W-z5sqt1QK4

      https://youtu.be/qeX8Usqx3hA

      https://youtu.be/3FY4MRdQOdE

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  8. Just projector mapping.... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been around forever. and honestly that demo really sucked as it was not able to keep centered on her face. Come on all they needed was to put some IR reference reflectors and some nice fast galvo mirrors on that projector output to keep it within 1/6th of an inch of human movement.

    This is the EXACT same tech used to do Gorillaz stage shows.

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  9. Snap at the BS? by s.petry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First, Gaga's tribute was poorly done. Don't get me wrong, I think she is talented with her own music and her own style. I don't know anyone that could replicate the stage presence of Bowie well, but Gaga has no "calm cool" in her. She is all ego and noise and is known for ego and noise. The only nice thing I can think to say is "She tried?"

    Second, what the hell makes anyone believe this will be in their office soon? Motion tracking has been out for 50 years. The only difference here is that it tracked the same surface it was displaying on.. kind of.. because it was off as often as on unless she moved at less than snail pace. Most offices don't have VR now, and every few years we all have to listen to how "everyone has to have it" and "it's the latest new technology". Pffft. Just like IoT, this is someone trying to sell what people don't want or need. Maybe you like your 400 Fitbits and the Apple watch it can be housed in, but I don't give a rats ass myself.

    Call me when there is something more "cool" than a dumb ass keyboard with a few basic servo's installed to make it look cool.

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    1. Re:Snap at the BS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Must be pretty awesome to be so smart that you've seen it all before, and nothing surprises you.

    2. Re:Snap at the BS? by Darier · · Score: 1

      http://vsedzheneriki.ru/

  10. The Grammys are still a thing? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

    >> at the Grammys

    The what?

    >> It's a big live music awards show.

    I didn't know that was still a thing. Is the Ed Sullivan show still running somewhere too?

    1. Re:The Grammys are still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's so cool that you feign total ignorance of certain parts of pop culture. It clearly makes you a superior human being to be out of touch with what's going on in the world around you.

  11. News? by rickb928 · · Score: 1

    I've read variations of this story for 30+ years:

    - 3D CAD program used to make a model of an object in software.

    - 'Virtual Reality' tool used to permit engineers to visualize this model creatively.

    - Improved objects...

    Seriously, none of this is new, just perhaps slightly more affordable for now. Cheaper next year.

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    1. Re:News? by ceoyoyo · · Score: 1

      I went and watched the video (I only skipped the pretentious parts... "imagine with me..."). The tech they showed still looks really clunky. I remember the last time VR was on the edge of exploding. There seems to be a remarkable lack of progress since then.

  12. Re:Gaga can't do a good Bowie because she is butch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bowie is blah, old, dead, overrated. Lady Gaga young, hot and has showed us her tits.

  13. Freddy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lady Gaga + David Bowie = Freddy Mercury?

    1. Re: Freddy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No. Just No. Mercury and Bowie are artists from a different time, from a different world. Lady Gaga may wish to be in that world, but the truth is that the contemporary cultural landscape has no rooms for such figures. It's like trying to build a gothic cathedral in suburbia, using the cheapest contemporary materials and methods available. The result is going to be awful and it will not have the same impact and influence that the originals wield.