A new patent application Microsoft shows how its HoloLens glasses can help you easily find small objects like car keys.
More generally, the patent describes a system who can monitor the status of the items without instructions from users, keeping information about something that is important to your life.
The basic idea of the patent is quite simple. The HoloLens have cameras that can make a spatial map of a room and vision technology can locate or track specific objects in an image. So if, for example, you put your keys on a table, HoloLens could hypothetically identify them through the camera and silently mark their place. When you want to leave the house, they could give you the last known location of the keys, even if they have been covered by a newspaper or slipped under a cushion on the couch.
Presently it looks like a very ineffective way to find your keys. You should always wear the smart glasses, which are now incredibly inconvenient. If you also drop your keys somewhere without looking at them, the system could not record their movement. Let that in a future with 24 / 7 augmented reality we may not even have keys.
Perhaps what's really interesting isn't the idea of HoloLens locating an object. Is learning of HoloLens which data έχουν σημασία για εσάς και η επιλογή τους να τα παρακολουθεί. Για να είμαστε σαφής, θα μπορούσατε να ορίσετε αντικείμενα: για παράδειγμα ένας ταξιδιώτης λέει στα HoloLens να παρακολουθεί το διαβατήριό του. Ή θα μπορούσε ακόμη και είναι τρόφιμα in your fridge reminding you what to buy when you go to the supermarket hours later.
And if you want to take it a step further, this technology could begin to find patterns of your every movement that are uniquely identified with you, something like fingerprints that is. In addition, Microsoft sees a near future where we will somehow always have one or more cameras on us that will record continuously. It may not be the bulky and uncomfortable HoloLens but don't forget that this is a patent that simply enshrines the patent for future profits.
