this is amazing and will change life forever: live text translation via augmented reality

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it's 2010: welcome to the future.

HOLY SHIT ITS 2010 AND CHAOSMACHINE JUST WELCOMED ME TO IT

the spanish phrases the woman holds up look like they were translated from english to spanish with software. some of them are shitty word for word translations. it looks like they're trying to trick english speakers into thinking the translations are better than they are.

it doesn't matter if the translation quality is poor, that part is pretty much guaranteed to get better. the ability to detect and redraw the words in live video is what's awesome. and this is just the first release, imagine what will be possible in a few years, as this idea matures and hardware gets even more powerful. imagine being able to put on some glasses and read any book, sign, newspaper, magazine, etc written in any language... imagine being able to insert hyperlinks in any text on the fly... etc, etc. you could just move to any country and never worry about not being able to read stuff.

and eventually audio processing will catch up as well..

  On 12/17/2010 at 2:20 AM, chaosmachine said:

it doesn't matter if the translation quality is poor, that part is pretty much guaranteed to get better. the ability to detect and redraw the words in live video is what's awesome. and this is just the first release, imagine what will be possible in a few years, as this idea matures and hardware gets even more powerful. imagine being able to put on some glasses and read any book, sign, newspaper, magazine, etc written in any language... imagine being able to insert hyperlinks in any text on the fly... etc, etc. you could just move to any country and never worry about not being able to read stuff.

 

and eventually audio processing will catch up as well..

how does the translation quality not matter? I'd like to see this with more than just short phrases and simple sentences.

  On 12/17/2010 at 2:48 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

  On 12/17/2010 at 2:20 AM, chaosmachine said:

it doesn't matter if the translation quality is poor, that part is pretty much guaranteed to get better. the ability to detect and redraw the words in live video is what's awesome. and this is just the first release, imagine what will be possible in a few years, as this idea matures and hardware gets even more powerful. imagine being able to put on some glasses and read any book, sign, newspaper, magazine, etc written in any language... imagine being able to insert hyperlinks in any text on the fly... etc, etc. you could just move to any country and never worry about not being able to read stuff.

 

and eventually audio processing will catch up as well..

 

how does the translation quality not matter? I'd like to see this with more than just short phrases and simple sentences.

  On 12/17/2010 at 2:20 AM, chaosmachine said:

that part is pretty much guaranteed to get better.

in other words, it'd be trivially easy for them to hook into, say, google translate, which gets better all the time, thanks to machine learning algorithms. the dictionary v1.0 currently ships with is meaningless, the breakthrough is the visual processing technology involved, and the places that technology is going to take us in the next decade.

this could be pretty damn useful just for reading signs and menus and stuff.

so we're about 4-5 years away from the future....

nah blood

That's way cool. The possibilities are almost limitless with this shit. It's probably not too bold to say that augmented reality is going to be one of the main stories of this coming decade. A pretty safe prediction that, i think. Once they make affordable Ar glasses it's going to change the everyday experience in a major way. It will be that losing a limb kind of feeling when you take them off, just like if you lost your phone now.

Wow, what the fuck. That is astounding we can do that. I'm excited and a little fearful of the technology we'll see in the next 15 years.

  me said:

Wow, what the fuck. That is astounding we can do that. I'm excited and a little fearful of the technology we'll see in the next 1 year.

incredible. i wonder how it handles cursive writing or less regular fonts.

Now if I could only get youtube to stop spitting up "an error ocurred. please try again later" on every goddamned video on watmm...I'd be happy.

does it make her clothes dissapear?

if they could do japanese to english, this would make my life so much easier.

Obligatory: Where's my flying care?

On topic: This is actually pretty cool. People will still need some basic understanding of language to get literal translations though.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

man, the technological singularity is coming so fucking fast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A&feature=player_detailpage#t=1167s

go to 19:26

  On 12/17/2010 at 4:05 AM, data said:

lol

real life is like that though?

  On 12/17/2010 at 5:10 AM, vproc said:

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime!

I'm still waiting for the flying skateboards

  On 12/17/2010 at 6:41 AM, Ranky Redlof said:

I'm still waiting for the flying skateboards

well they're available on amazon oh wait....

  On 12/17/2010 at 6:48 AM, dr lopez said:

  On 12/17/2010 at 6:41 AM, Ranky Redlof said:

I'm still waiting for the flying skateboards

well they're available on amazon oh wait....