AR Experience Report: Cyborg Vision

This is a video-based argumented reality app example.  By seeing through the camera of   iphone or ipad, user could gain a similar view appeared in the movie Terminator as the app name implies. It utilizes the face recognition technology and by capturing one person’s face, it will compare the image captured and one’s facebook profile photo. If two matches, the relevant information like name, age, gender, place of living etc, will be shown surrounded the person on the screen. But as seen from the video, the recognition process is a bit slow.

Though the dark dim red sight of view appearing distracting, I think this is still an excellent app in aspect of AR experiences. Unlike those seemingly fancy AR games on the market, this is the one having the potential integrating into people’s daily life. This is the app you would use frequently if in the future more advanced HMD is developed. It saves us from the embarrassing scene like forgetting new acquaintance’s name and helps knowing our friends better. It can even show the recent activities of your friend posted on the facebook. It is also a good example of meeting the need of huge amount of data required by AR by retrieving directly from those comercial SNS website.