A new patent application from Microsoft shows how its HoloLens glasses can help you easily find small ones objects, like the wrenches of the car.
More generally, the patent describes a system which can monitor the state of objects without instructions from them users, maintaining information for something that is important to your life.
The basic idea of the patent is quite simple. The HoloLens they have cameras that can make a spatial map of a room and the technology τεχνητής όρασης μπορεί να εντοπίσει ή να παρακολουθεί συγκεκριμένα αντικείμενα σε μια picture. So if, for example, you put your keys on a table, HoloLens could hypothetically detect them through the camera and silently note their location. 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 sofa cushion.
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 is really interesting is not the idea of locating an object from HoloLens. It is the learning of HoloLens which items matter to you and their choice to monitor them. To be clear, you could define objects: for example, a traveler tells HoloLens to monitor 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 a step further, it could be technology αυτή να αρχίσει να βρίσκει μοτίβα της κάθε σας κίνησης τα οποία να ταυτοποιούνται αποκλειστικά με εσάς, κάτι σαν τα δακτυλικά αποτυπώματα δηλαδή. Επιπλέον η Microsoft βλέπει ένα κοντινό μέλλον όπου με κάποιον τρόπο θα έχουμε επάνω μας συνέχεια μία ή περισσότερες κάμερες που θα καταγράφουν συνεχώς. Μπορεί να μην είναι τα ογκώδη και άβολα HoloLens αλλά μην ξεχνάτε ότι πρόκειται για ένα δίπλωμα ευρεσιτεχνίας που απλά κατοχυρώνει την πατέντα για μελλοντικά κέρδη.