Reality Editor is a new app-powered version of augmented reality from MIT Media lab, and this video above shows it in action: an app that connects to everyday devices to help give you greater control of the world around you. More from the site:
Use the Reality Editor to define simple actions, change the functionality of objects around you, remix how things work and interact. Make something that is virtual into something that is physical and the physical more virtual. Through its simplicity, the Reality Editor allows you to merge two separate realities into one truly interwoven experience.
This all sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. We’ve made some of our research publicly available. You can download the Reality Editor in the App Store® and use our open source platform called Open Hybrid to build a new generation of Hybrid Objects. This vision is not only for the DIY designer and engineers, but is also fully feasible for the next generation of high-tech users.
Set-up looks pretty time-consuming right now, but if early adopters start picking it up, I could see this kind of tech integrated into devices more often. (Hat tip: Waxy.org.
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Why not just press the light switch?
Posted by: Cube Republic | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 06:19 AM
ARE YOU SOME KIND OF LUDDITE?!
:)
Posted by: Wagner James Au | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 10:12 AM
No, a Luddite would have insisted on a candle.
Posted by: Cube Republic | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 11:52 AM