Art, Science, and Invention of
Wearable Augmented Reality.
Humanistic Intelligence = Real Reality
Monday, 2017年 10月 25日, Mountainview and Santa Clara
Steve Mann, Stanford University
Art, Science, and Invention of
Humanistic Intelligence = Real Reality
Monday, 2017年 10月 25日, Mountainview and Santa Clara
Steve Mann, Stanford University
- Meta Augmented Reality (Silicon Valley). Raised $73,000,000 and was the
top company at Y‐Combinator 2013 batch,
CTO Raymond Lo (Mann's PhD student) metavision.com; - InteraXon Brainwave sensing headband (Toronto). Raised $17,000,000.
Product now at Best Buy and Indigo stores everywhere,
CTO: Chris Aimone (Mann's Ma.Sc. student) www.choosemuse.com; - Visionertech: AR HDR vision (Shenzhen).
Raised $10,000,000.
Founder: Arkin Ai (Mann's Ma.Sc. student) www.visionertech.com - Splashtones: Hydraulophones shipped all around the world, including Legoland California, Chicago Children’s Museum, and the Ontario Science Centre (Toronto). Founders: Steve Mann and Chris Aimone (Mann's Ma.Sc. student) www.funtain.ca
“ Humanistic Intelligence [HI] is intelligence that arises because of a human being in the feedback loop of a computational process, where the human and computer are inextricably intertwined. When a wearable computer embodies HI and becomes so technologically advanced that its intelligence matches our own biological brain, something much more powerful emerges from this synergy that gives rise to superhuman intelligence within the single 'cyborg' being. ”
--Kurzweil, Minsky, and Mann,
"The Society of Intelligent Veillance"
IEEE ISTAS 2013.
Nature-based, e.g. "Natural Philosophy" (Physics)
(Natural Elements, e.g. Earth, Water, Air);
Natural to use, e.g. as we engage in the real physical world.
Natural, innate, e.g. RWM (Reality Window Manager)
Other examples:
- Hydraulophone;
- Mindmesh ("Look and Think" instead of point and click);
- EyeTap.
Transparent Technology
RCA906 CRT Pictures courtesy of Neil Heckt, who passed away on August 19, 2015. May we all remember Neil for his great service to the community, his natural curiosity in regards to all things electrical, and as a great educator through web-based media.
Little Data, Six Penny AR and Superpower to the People
Standing Waves
Wikimedia Commons.
Now let me tell you about something different ==
let us call this new thing a "sitting wave".
Standing and Sitting Wave Comparison
Natural User Interface (NUI)
(image: Wikimedia Commons)
Intelligent Image Processing, Mann 2001
Natural User Interfaces
Metaphor-free computing
Reality User Interfaces
Visualizing audio using abakography
Sensing Sensing using feedback; Steve Mann, 1985
Pעpe™Information Conduits
Abakography אבקוגרפי
Pעpe™Information Conduits
Pעpes™ you can walk in: Wayfinding+Gaming
Abakographic Principle invented by S. Mann
Modular photographic lighting, artistic lighting, and data visualization system.
AR Vision: WearCam + WearComp + WearDisp
Crazy idea... 35 years ago...
Now a $241 billion industry!...
- Space;
- Time;
- Range.
Quick review of Mann2001,
John Wiley and Sons,
"Intelligent Image Processing"...
Early 1990s TV broadcast; Founding of MIT Wearable Computing Project
Crazy idea... 35 years ago;
"Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone deemed to be on the lunatic fringe, but who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline."
--Nicholas Negroponte, Bangor Daily News - Sep 26, 1997.
--Nicholas Negroponte, Toroto Star, 2001 Jul. 8, 02:32 EDT, Page D3, `Wearable computer' pioneer Steve Mann keeps one eye locked on the future, by Eric Shinn
Now a $241 billion industry!...
HDR Video
MannGlass 1978 and GOOGlass 2013
Both of these are Generation-1 DEG
Nature (human) and Technology (computer) combined!
Thin strip of metal wraps around the head;
No hinges: 1-piece construction.
Sleek slender metal frame, in one continuous piece
45-degree glass
Fiber optics
Not foldable
Completed 1998
Implantable camera system
Canadian Patent 2313693, filed 2000, July 19 by S. Mann
IMPLANTABLE CAMERA SYSTEM,
SYSTEME DE CAMERA IMPLANTABLE
Vision system for the blind
and partially sighted.
Recent collaboration with filmmakers:
•Denys Desjardins ("My Eye for a Camera"), National Film Board of Canada; and
•Rob Spence
Art Installation at Vancouver Olympics 2010
Muse, available at Best Buy stores all across North America
Conclusions and further direction:
•Feedback delayed is feedback denied;
•HI (Humanistic Intelligence) [Mann 1998]:
•Sousveillant Systems;
•Direct User Interfaces [Mann 1998];
•Natural User Interfaces [Mann 2001];
•Tinquiry (tinkering as a form of inquiry);
•ARbotics and Integral Kinesiology;
•Being digital is being quantized;
•Mannlabs Toronto, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Palo Alto