tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300483012293480971.post1045418948461047597..comments2018-07-31T20:25:01.327-07:00Comments on James R. Strickland's Blog: To see the futureJRShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17544359854042628120noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300483012293480971.post-45483249038995860122013-03-09T08:54:11.298-08:002013-03-09T08:54:11.298-08:00I'd wager that that is what the world's he...I'd wager that that is what the world's heading for. As whole electronic functions are cooked down to jelly-bean logic, tossing in dedicated image-recognition chips (basically special-purpose graphics engines) becomes trivial. In computing (as in some other areas) specificity is easy; generality is hard.<br /><br />I'm not sure a phone/tablet has to be structurally transparent (as Polytron's device is) to do the job. My 10" tablet has a camera, and when it's in camera mode, it's virtually transparent, in that it shows an image of what the camera's pointed at, on which an enhanced reality overlay could easily be placed.<br /><br />But the more prior art of this sort is placed out there, the better. (If often wondered if blog posts count as prior art. Have never seen good case law on this.) Jeff Duntemannnoreply@blogger.com