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The Infinite Retina

The Infinite Retina

By : Irena Cronin, Robert Scoble
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The Infinite Retina

The Infinite Retina

By: Irena Cronin, Robert Scoble

Overview of this book

What is Spatial Computing and why is everyone from Tesla, Apple, and Meta investing heavily in it? Irena Cronin and Robert Scoble answer that question to help you understand where Spatial Computing - an augmented reality where humans and machines can interact in a physical space - came from, where it's going, and why it's so fundamentally different from the computers or mobile phones that came before. They present seven visions of the future and the industry verticals in which Spatial Computing has the most influence - Transportation; Technology, Media, and Telecommunications; Manufacturing; Retail; Healthcare; Finance; and Education. The book also shares insights from leading experts, industry veterans and innovators, including Sebastian Thrun, Ken Bretschneider, and Hugo Swart. They dive into what they think will happen in the medium term and what it could mean for humanity in the long term. This new second edition has many substantial updates, including two new chapters on the relevance of Generative AI to Spatial Computing and a new chapter on the impact of the Apple Vision Pro. Each existing chapter has been updated to have the most current information and commentary.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part I: Why Spatial Computing and Why Now?
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Part II: The Seven Visions
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Part III: The Spatial Business
19
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Index

Volumetric and Light Field – Capturing Our World in a New Way

DARPA had a challenge: can you take a photo through a bush?

That led to computer vision breakthroughs at Stanford University and other places that are still changing how we look at capturing images today. That challenge, back in 2007, caused Stanford University researcher, Marc Levoy, to move away from using a single lens to take a photo and, instead, build a grid of cameras, all connected to a computer where the software would gather rays of light coming through a bush and collect them piece by piece from all the different cameras, creating a light field. Then, a computer would re-assemble those pieces, sort of like putting together a puzzle.

Shrinking Concepts, Expanding Horizons

Today, the light field concept has shrunk from using individual cameras arranged on a set of shelves to using pieces of image sensors, sometimes even putting microscopic lenses on top, and the field of computer vision has greatly...

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