Apple
Just started their photocopiers.
Expect theirs in 5 years, followed by the inevitable lawsuit a year later.
It's their official company policy.
Google has revealed a tablet for Project Tango – the web giant's plan to create devices capable of mapping the space around them in three dimensions. Tango was first floated as a smartphone, but Google was later suspected of instead deciding on a tablet as the best device for the job. The keyword-kings today confirmed the …
Just started their photocopiers.
Expect theirs in 5 years, followed by the inevitable lawsuit a year later.
It's their official company policy.
I could not up-vote you fast enough. My first thought was, "What would possess people to think that it would be a good idea to allow everyone in the world access to their homes (under the premise that if it is on the internet, it is available to everyone). Then I thought "Facebook..." Never mind. Go back to playing Farmville and sharing far too intimate details about every aspect of your lives.
Many years ago (I can't remember where or when) there was a paint supplier website where you uploaded a picture of your room and it would let you try out different colours on the walls. It probably used a mixture of colour replacement and shape/vertex/edge detection. Virtual furniture would be much more difficult but an interesting application.
Actually the virtual furniture and 3-d context is a well done kit in that part of the CAD world. I'd stumble across their world as I was collecting info on various CAD/CAE/CAM and simulation packages. The translation between real world to virtual world is the "hard" part. The really interesting part is
Google tagged the same base hardware as I'll be using for the sensory apparatus/data massager for drone use.
sounds great for getting a general feel for what furniture would look like in your home. By that i mean helping a salesman sell you that 4 grand sofa suite by showing you how great it looks like in front of that 60" tele - that he's also selling you.
but you're still gonna need a tape measure to make sure stuff fits.
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