Facebook is really very serious about augmented reality. Last year the company showed up frankly ambitious framework for the future of RA, and now the social media giant has revealed some of the advanced gadgets isDesign to help people interact with the world of artificial reality.
The biggest challenge for the Facebook Reality Labs research team is finding ways to interact with augmented reality as we do with a PC. We have several headphones and glasses, but there is no AR equivalent to a mouse and a keyboard.
So instead of trying to get existing devices to work in RA, Facebook wants to create new types of home-computer interfaces (HCIs) that are easy to use, reliable, and yet provide a certain level of privacy. . Facebook has said so considers AI as a critical part of the formula to help you provide the right tools or commands depending on the situation, which should help reduce friction or possible user confusion.
And while this technology is far from polished, Facebook already has some ideas on how AR-based HCI devices could work in the future. Instead of relying entirely on voice commands, Facebook sees wrist-mounted laptops as a good solution, offering a familiar and comfortable design, which is not entirely different from a standard wristwatch, but with new technology that can support various input methods.
Facebook says that by leveraging electromyography, it can use sensors to convert electrical signals that are sent from the brain to the hands into digital commands. Facebook claims that EMG sensors are sensitive enough to detect movements of just a millimeter, and that future devices can even sense someone’s intentions without any actual physical movement. In essence, Facebook wants to provide direct mental control of RA devices, but without the need for physical implants.
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In addition, with accurate EMG sensors, Facebook can also support new gesture controls, such as pinching your thumb and forefinger together to create a “click.” In this way, people can translate what they do on an ordinary computer into a new set of AR-based gestures that Facebook will one day hope to expand to all sorts of controls and movements. Facebook even hopes to re-imagine it writing with the help of AI to make essay writing or emails faster and more accurate.
Facebook said so he knows that all these technologies will have to evolve with each other, because simply clicking on an RA object will not be enough if the rest of the RA interface is constantly interposed. And again, Facebook thinks artificial intelligence can help you, knowing intelligently when you want to switch virtual workspaces or focus on a specific tool or get additional information from EMG sensors or even and all of eye tracking sensors.
At thealthough touch screens and virtual screens are useful, there is simply no substitution for the actual physical stimulus. So in addition to touching something with your fingers, Facebook just showed up two different prototypes that offer haptics in interesting ways.
With its “Bellowband” prototype, Facebook uses a chain of eight connected air pumps to a wrist-mounted device that blow air and create various patterns of pressure and vibration. WCombined with its prototype Tasbi (Touch and Squeeze Wristband Interface), Facebook has been able to create a device that squeezes your wrist to better mimic the feeling of moving or touching real objects.
The biggest problem, of course, is that Facebook’s privacy history is … well, we all know it’s not great. The company dit safeguarding people’s data in RA is of great importance, although Facebook’s scientific director of Reality Labs, Sean Keller, added “aunderstanding and resolving the full extent of ethical issues requires a societal commitment. ”In short, Facebook needs feedback on how to improve privacy and security in RA (surprise, surprise) and is encouraging its researchers to publish relevant work. arevised magazines.
Certainly, while all of this sounds pretty far-fetched,launched, given the speed with which virtual reality has been adopted by certain sectors of the company such as engineering and design, it is not so extravagant to imagine that artificial reality will grow similarly in the next 10 to 15 years. And, as in other industries, if you are the first company to define and control a market, profits are likely to be tracked. IYou can be sure that Facebook will do its best to try to stay ahead of competitors, but it looks like it will Microsoft, Apple and the rest have the same idea. Let the Games begin.