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Apps that will exist in augmented reality world: if you want a vision of the future, imagine a smartphone strapped to a human face forever.
Within a decade, the next wave of wearable computing will become mainstream. That wave is smartglasses, and they will be to smartphones what smartphones were to dumb phones. https://twitter.com/naval/status/1112179797558358016
What most fail to realize about the coming smartglass revolution is that the killer app has already been invented, and it only awaits the proper hardware configuration to take advantage of it. That killer app is a technique in AI called a GAN - a Generative Adversarial Network
GANs running on our smartglasses will make it possible to redraw any aspect of our visual sensory input, creating a kind of universal bespoke digital hallucination
We have already seen how video filters are able to re-shape women's faces in realtime. This example is probably not even using AI, and this is not even the beginning. I promise you, given the option, most women will manipulate their appearance in AR. https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/comments/be5t2a/tik_tok_users_abusing_filters/
The demand for GAN-equipped smartglasses will be extremely high when social media evolves to take advantage of the platform, enabling people to fine-tune their digital appearance to other smartglass wearers. The whole world will be instagram-filtered and shopped
Women in particular will flock to these apps because they will be able to make themselves look younger, tighter, and twenty pounds lighter (How Is Catfishing Real Ninja Just Take Off Your Smart Glasses What The Fuck)
I was lucky enough to spend ten minutes browsing the app store of the glorious adversarial network augmented reality technofuture, and I have come back with tales of wonder and horror.
MaleGaze: eyetracking analytics measures how much time you spend looking at women's asses, tits etc vs how much time you spend looking at their face, cross-checked against biometrics like heart rate to measure arousal. Emits a [0,1] metric of how much you objectify women
Diogenes: Speech recognition combined with GPT-2 style neural network tries to predict the things that your friends and interaction partners will say before they say it, ranks interactions in terms of predictability. Doubles as an accessibility app, gives subtitles to the world
SafeSpace: Like adblock but for racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, fascists &c. Connects to a national registry maintained by the SPLC and renders all known bigots as gray silhouettes, and mutes all of their speech by playing white noise whenever they talk
Jaynes - Renders a ghost of Jesus, Buddha, Obama, or Weihan to follow you around and give you commands to act morally in various situations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
Scoutr - Reverse image searches every face that comes into your field of view, identifies them, and calculates their clout by aggregating their reach and followers across social media sites. Vegeta/9000/etc https://www.techspot.com/news/73179-chinese-police-using-glasses-facial-recognition-tech-scan.html
ThotPatrol: Reverse image searches every face that comes into your field of view, identifies them, and figures out if their nudes are on the internet
Superman: Social media network that renders your silhouette for other in-network participants even when you are obscured by walls, buildings, etc. Breaks rules about occlusion and perspective to give you a kind of X-ray vision
Outlier: Aggregates the always-on video feed from your smartglasses to compute normativity map for various locations. Scores your feed against what is statistically likely given your GPS location, computes your outlier score. Exposes leaderboards for the most novel views
Prosopag: Scrambles everyone's face so that no one ever looks familiar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
SpankBank: Builds 3d image maps of your conversation partners as you are speaking to them and uploads them to the cloud so that they can be used to construct deepfakes
OST: social theme music sharing allows everyone to define a theme song so that when they enter a room, their theme music plays.
Nightmode: Uses GANs to make it always night time
[Various]: A seemingly endless series of novelty filter apps that make the world look like anime, or make everyone look like Trump, or make everyone look like a hot woman, etc, similar to snapchat's girl filter. Standouts in this category include Wakanda: makes everyone black
[Historical note] 3 years after augmented reality smart goggles reach the tipping point of ubiquity, amid growing unrest by civil rights activists, the federal government passes the controversial Augmented Reality Mediation Ownership Rights act, known as ARMOR
Although opinions on the subject vary, ARMOR was drafted and implemented in response to a viral video in which a man demonstrates the use of an app called "Jive Turkey" that makes all black people in his field of view talk like characters in old racist cartoons
In order to be ARMOR compliant, augmented reality apps are not allowed to change your race, sex, or age without your explicit consent. No one is allowed to use an app to change your accent or mannerisms except you
If youâre white, you canât change your race, otherwise you can choose to be white or your own race. You can be a man or a woman, you can be young or old. You can choose mediation filters to transform your accent or your voice or your gait or the way you gesture when you talk
Racial justice activists have argued that the ability for anyone of any race to appear white in mediated reality constitutes a kind of erasure of minorities that contributes to heightened racial tensions in the augmented reality age.
Opponents of this view respond that people of all races should be able to benefit from being perceived as white, and some extremists argue that, if anything, white people should be forced to present as other races, but others argue that this is minstrelsy dressed up as justice
Many people choose to maintain both a professional and personal mediated self-presentation in AR. The ideal age and sex for work may be different than the ideal for leisure. Despite the fact that people can present as any age or race or sex at work, wage gaps have persisted
Most companies now use a special government-approved filter to make your co-workers appear to be the same race as you and whichever sex you donât prefer. This has been called binary normative and oppressive but it also mitigates sexual harassment liability
I know, that took a weird turn!
O tempora!
O mores! https://twitter.com/viceuk/status/1144202511903014913
O mores! https://twitter.com/viceuk/status/1144202511903014913
