Augmented Reality FFS

[Bankc]

Well, it was inevitable.  

 

https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/augmented-realty-glasses-livescoping/

What's next?  A fully automated drone that we can fly off to the lake while we watch it catch fish on our phone screens from our recliner?  It only sounds absurd now.  The change up to it will be incremental, so it won't seem so absurd when it finally becomes reality.  

[TnRiver46]

[casts_by_fly]

Not surprised at all.  There are plenty of bluetooth capable headsets that will do that for other things.  Fish finders are bluetooth now.  Sending live video over a bluetooth connection is tougher but doable if you have enough battery power.  The google glass glasses would have done this. All you need is an HDMI output from the FF into a bluetooth video transmitter.

[Functional]

Just came here with a screenshot about this. 

 

Again no idea where I saw it but there was a "commercial" about the future that had a guy wearing sunglasses that when he looked in the water showed the under water topography like he was seeing through the water. That's tech I can get behind. Like mega 360 on steroids,  I'd like to see the bottom but I don't necessarily need to see fish... just bottom and cover. 

[12poundbass]

9 hours ago, Bankc said:

What's next?  A fully automated drone that we can fly off to the lake while we watch it catch fish on our phone screens from our recliner

That could be easily done right now.

[TnRiver46]

I’ve seen people fish with drones, it doesn’t work. Fish pulls it into the water, bye bye $1,000. 

5 hours ago, Functional said:

Just came here with a screenshot about this. 

 

Again no idea where I saw it but there was a "commercial" about the future that had a guy wearing sunglasses that when he looked in the water showed the under water topography like he was seeing through the water. That's tech I can get behind. Like mega 360 on steroids,  I'd like to see the bottom but I don't necessarily need to see fish... just bottom and cover. 

Ed Laughron on bass elite series has those glasses, it shows him the livescope screen thru the lens. He said he didn’t use them this tourney but has for crappie fishing 

[Tennessee Boy]

This could be the answer to the issue everyone’s been complaining about.   People hate watching angler staring at screens.  If the images are projected onto their sun glasses then it will look like they’re staring at open water like they did in the good old days.

[Craig P]

I hope he has some aspirin on board. People who have bought that headset from Apple have found that their eyes can’t take it. I don’t think we’re built to look at things that close.

[Bankc]

3 hours ago, Craig P said:

I hope he has some aspirin on board. People who have bought that headset from Apple have found that their eyes can’t take it. I don’t think we’re built to look at things that close.

They use optical lenses to make it function as if it were further out.  Most people couldn't focus on something as close as the lenses on glasses, so they use optical tricks to make it both appear and function as it it's further out.  They've been doing the same thing with camera viewfinders for about a century now, as the screen you're looking at in a camera is only about an inch or so away, but it appears to our eyes as if it's several feet out.  Which is why I can't focus a camera without my glasses, because I'm nearsighted.  

 

The headache comes from people's brains trying to make sense of what the eyes are seeing.  Lots of people who are nearsighted experience the same thing when they get glasses for the first time, or sometimes get a stronger prescription.  Their brain isn't used to viewing the world though that lens and it takes time to adjust.  Same with 3D movies.  The dual cameras used to film them are typically set up wider than the human eyes to make the movie appear "even more 3D", and it messes with people's brains and can give them a headache.  But if you stick with it long enough, your brain adjusts, and the headaches go away.  It just takes time to learn how to see in a new way.  

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

This could be the answer to the issue everyone’s been complaining about.   People hate watching angler staring at screens.  If the images are projected onto their sun glasses then it will look like they’re staring at open water like they did in the good old days.

Oh my goodness you solved it 

[Bankc]

It's only a matter of time before they offer livescope tied into the AR glasses from the factory.  Then they can overlay the sonar perfectly to what you're seeing in real life and turn the transducer as you turn your head.  So we'll all be fishing with Superman-like X-ray vision.  

 

But that won't be last long.  People will soon realize it took the sport out of fishing.  So scientist will genetically engineer LMB that will grow to double digit sizes in six months that are super dumb and aggressive, and if you have the money to fish the lakes stocked with these expensive fish, you'll be all but guaranteed to catch a limit of PB's.  And to encourage culling, the meat will taste like cheesecake.  

 

It sounds like a joke, but if you went up to an angler in 1800 and told him we all run around in boats that weren't powered by oars or wind, but by dinosaur bones (though you'd have to call them dragon bones so he understands) and we could see the fish underwater even if it's muddy using lightning in a box and used fishing line that was invisible and made out of dirt oil, they'd think you were crazy. 

 

"So your boat is made out of glass and metal?  But glass and metal doesn't float.  And you're trying to tell me people get paid to catch fish they don't keep?  What do you eat, future boy?  The cheese on the moon?"  

[TnRiver46]

@Bankc Ed laughron already has the glasses 

[Bandersnatch]

thoughts on Jon Bs videos? I assume this was real. Quite disappointing in my opinion but it will only grow from here. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4HDv3_OBLv/?igsh=Z3Q0bGhieHR5Y2Fp
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4Tk-mVJ8Ez/?igsh=MWZ5MnJsOGhnMHhn

 

 

[DogBone_384]

Augmented reality for me is catching more than two or three fish in one outing or nabbing a single fish over 3 pounds.....😂

[Skunkmaster-k]

23 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

thoughts on Jon Bs videos? I assume this was real. Quite disappointing in my opinion but it will only grow from here. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4HDv3_OBLv/?igsh=Z3Q0bGhieHR5Y2Fp
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4Tk-mVJ8Ez/?igsh=MWZ5MnJsOGhnMHhn

 

 

His video made me think of my kid with his VR headset making weird movements while saying weird stuff. It was interesting that Jon returned it at the end of the day. 

[Koz]

On 3/17/2024 at 10:59 AM, Bandersnatch said:

thoughts on Jon Bs videos? I assume this was real. Quite disappointing in my opinion but it will only grow from here. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4HDv3_OBLv/?igsh=Z3Q0bGhieHR5Y2Fp
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4Tk-mVJ8Ez/?igsh=MWZ5MnJsOGhnMHhn

 

 

There's no way I would use a clunky headset like that. If I do try this, it will be with glasses like the XReal Air2 Pro glasses. 

 

I'm going to hold off until summer or fall and make sure this is something I really want to try. Well, if I hit the Mega Millions jackpot tonight that may change things 😀