A new Microsoft patent application shows that HoloLens glasses can help you easily find small items such as 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 έχουν κάμερες που μπορούν να κάνουν ένα χωροταξικό χάρτη ενός δωματίου και η τεχνολογία τεχνητής όρασης μπορεί να εντοπίσει ή να παρακολουθεί συγκεκριμένα αντικείμενα σε μια εικόνα. Έτσι, αν, για παράδειγμα, βάλετε τα κλειδιά σας πάνω σε ένα τραπέζι, τα HoloLens θα μπορούσαν υποθετικά να τα εντοπίσουν μέσα από την κάμερα και αθόρυβα να σημειώσουν τη θέση τους. Όταν θελήσετε να φύγετε από το home, could give you the last known location of the keys, even if they've been covered by a newspaper or slipped under a sofa cushion.
At the moment it seems like a very inefficient way to find your keys. You'll have to wear the smart glasses all the time, which is currently incredibly uncomfortable. If you also drop your keys somewhere without looking at them, the system it would not be able to register their movement. Let alone in a 24/7 augmented reality future we might not even have keys.
Perhaps what's really interesting isn't the idea of HoloLens locating an object. It is HoloLens learning which data they matter to you and their choice to track them. To be clear, you could define objects: for example a traveler tells the HoloLens to track his passport. Or it could even be food in your fridge reminding you what to buy when you go to the supermarket hours later.
And if you want to take it one step further, this technology can begin to find patterns of your own motion that are identified exclusively with you, something like fingerprints. In addition, Microsoft sees a near future where, in some way, we will have one or more cameras continuously on top of us. It may not be the bulky and uncomfortable HoloLens, but do not forget that it is a patent that simply patented the patent for future profits.
