HyperVoice
Word Of Mouth-Thoughts on Apps, Advertising, Apple and Future
By Lee Conley 12/7/11
I was thinking about linking today.
They were talking about Augmented Reality today on the podcast ‘FourCast’ hosted by Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson and earlier in the day I was thinking about verbal linking or ‘HyperVoice’ linking or ‘HyperVL’ if you will, my new future invention, where a Siri like assistant that could monitor your speech in the background, creating links to anything that can be linked during the course of normal conversation, no matter what the subject, so you could then seamlessly reference the subject for further inspection on your phone or tablet device, thereby augmenting the conversation. Wouldn’t that be cool?
Let’s pretend, “Last night on the John Stewart show he had an author who wrote a book on alternative energy and had invented an artificial leaf that could convert sunlight into hydrogen…” Meanwhile your “digital assistant would be scanning the web linking to John Stewart, last night 12/6/11, author, artificial leaf, etc. piecing together the facts - the authors name, book name, demonstration of artificial leaf, the clip of the show, and on and on. I don’t know about you but I’m always forgetting those finer points and the conversation fizzles out to, “Yeah, I’ll email you the link this evening, it was so cool, you gotta check it out!” then never do. The moment had past.
The problem with Augmented Reality of the visual variety is the same problem of 3D video… its not a shared experience, unless everyone is wearing special glasses or has a heads up retina display. “Let me tell you about the John Stewart Show last night… here put on these glasses…”,
It doesn’t fly. Not to mention a bunch of digital crap between you and reality.
But how cool would it be to have an interactive hologram project up out of your phone! Your little sidekick entity/digital assistant ready at moments notice to reinforce your knowledge, ideas and positions with real data and facts. Your buddy would have one too, demonstrating his point of view. The brainstorming would be “epic”, as the kids say. Bringing cyberspace to real space in holographic form.
Thank you HyperVoice (registered trademark, as of now)
Can you do that? I don’t know.
