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Your Reality Here
Extended Reality and the Web
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Peter Gasston
@stopsatgreen
Innovation Lead at rehab
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I’m going to talk
about four things:
The post-mobile
platform
The reasons
What’s missing
The role of the Web
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The post-mobile platform
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Gartner hype cycle 2017
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Benedict Evans / a16z
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XR will be the next platform.
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Extended reality (XR) is a spectrum
REAL
DIGITAL
Reality
Virtual
Reality
Augmented
Reality
Mixed
Reality
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The reasons
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Why XR is the
next platform:
Because we’re
told so
Because of
human nature
Because we have
the foundation
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Because we’re told so
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One day, we believe this
kind of immersive,
augmented reality will
become part of daily life
for billions of people.”
—Mark Zuckerberg
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I regard [AR] as a big idea,
like the smartphone.”
—Tim Cook
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Some of Apple’s
moves in XR
2013: Buy
PrimeSense
2015: Buy Metaio
2016: Buy Flyby
2017: Buy VRVana
2017: Launch ARKit
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Because of human nature
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XR meets two persistent
human desires: to know,
and to be tricked.
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The desire to know
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Knowledge is power.
Scientia potestas est.
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Spoken language developed
so that we could pass on
knowledge; and written
language so that we could
record it.
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Answering questions you can’t articulate
“…
A cushion that’s orange
and brown and beige
with a pattern of thick
and thin bars and
squares.”
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The desire to be tricked
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Perspectival representation
aimed to give viewers the
illusion that they had been
transported into geometrically
coherent and psychologically
convincing other worlds.”
— Margaret Wertheim
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Because we have the foundation
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Mixed reality is
a display problem,
a sensor problem and
a decision problem.”
— Benedict Evans
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The sensor
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Top three most-photographed subjects
Source:
Creative Strategies, Inc Smartphone
Photography Survey. n=965.
Audience: Mainstream.
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We’re going from
computers with cameras,
that take photos, to
computers with eyes,
that can see.”
— Benedict Evans
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Information I’d never
have had unless I’d asked
whoever I was with to
describe it to me. Having
the ability to do that
independently is really
quite remarkable.”
— Léonie Watson
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Computer vision has
become commoditised in
a very short time.
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Simultaneous Location And Mapping (SLAM)
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The display
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Video see-through (VST) Optical see-through (OST)
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Phone-based AR is a
social impediment and
can be uncomfortable for
more than short bursts.
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Having your hands free to
manipulate, hold, touch or
help while you’re taking a
snap… greatly increases
the sense of ‘place’ that
you get out of it.”
— Matthew Panzarino
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Digital in physical spaces & remixing digital input
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Digital things sharing space with physical things
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The decision-maker
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In XR, what you don’t see
could be as important as
what you see.
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Google’s Knowledge
Graph aims to give you
an answer, not a page
of links.
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“…
An intent represents a
mapping between what
a user says and what
action should be taken
by your software.”
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What’s missing
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Diverse voices
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A platform that’s closely
integrated with the real
world should reflect real
world values—not just
those of Silicon Valley.
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In the Renaissance, new concepts
of scientific thinking such as
perspective and space were
brought into the public sphere by
artists and philosophers.
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A shared public space
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AR has the ability to
re-enable scarcity. Many
AR experiences will be
tied to the location in
which you experience it.”
— Matt Miesniks
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“…
The future of Nike and of
sneaker culture is to be
able to seamlessly blend
real-world charm with
digital world convenience.”
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The biggest thing that’s
been missing for the
entire last decade was our
physical embodied space.”
— Anjney Midha
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SLAM
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The AR Cloud is a shared
[digital] memory of the
physical world. It’s the
single most important
software infrastructure in
computing.”
— Ori Inbar
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Cloud Anchors + Shared AR (Apple)
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How do we stop massive
platforms dominating the
AR Cloud in the same way
they dominate the Web?
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Camera Positioning Standard (CPS), Fantasmo.io
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The role of the Web
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The Web has transformed
the world, but stands
aloof from it.”
— Mark Pesce
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Mixed Reality Service
(MRS) adds a missing
metadata layer to the
real world, adding links
in space.
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Hololens App Model
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Facebook 3D post
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Article (Google prototype)
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AR Quick Look in Safari 12
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WebXR lets you create
VR/AR experiences that are
embedded in the web.
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What the WebXR
Device API does
Discovers
compatible devices
Begins an XR
session
Runs a 60fps loop
github.com/immersive-web
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How to experiment with XR on the Web now
AR.js, three.ar.js
WebXR XR on the Web
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We have an opportunity to
more fundamentally
reconsider what we want
the Web to be.
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The limitations are less
about technical constraints,
and more in our ability to
conceptualise, structure and
prioritise the aspects of the
world we want to build.”
— Keiichi Matsuda
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A richer, more shareable Web
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We expect Stories are on
track to overtake posts in
Feed as the most common
way that people share
across all social apps.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
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The rise of Stories
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Our current idea of what
qualifies as a site, and the
value (or lack thereof) that
this implies, may be
holding the web back.”
— Stephanie Rieger
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Hopscotch (concept)—fluffy-shanks.glitch.me
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There’s a disconnect
between the Web we
have — which is largely
text — and the Web we
need, which is richly
visualised.
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Our world is not text, and
the Web, as it becomes
more a part of this world,
must become more like
the world.”
— Mark Pesce
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“…
We use ‘X’ not as part of
an acronym but as an
algebraic variable to indicate
‘Your Reality Here’.”
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Let’s make the Web
be the X in XR.
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The End