增强视觉 | 计算机视觉 增强现实

最近发生了一起很有趣的关于增强现实的争论。给大家分享一下。

起因是The Guardian的专栏作者Charlie Brooker的一篇关于增强现实的幻想。Charlie Brooker预言在技术成熟之后，人们就可以把街道上流浪汉统统过滤掉，换成一只只可爱的兔子什么的。换成有中国特色的说法就是，把不和谐的都和谐掉。这篇文章相当有趣特别是最后一部分，建议阅读一下。

Years ago, I had an idea for a futuristic pair of goggles that visually transformed homeless people into lovable animated cartoon characters. Instead of being confronted by the conscience-pricking sight of an abandoned heroin addict shivering themselves to sleep in a shop doorway, the rich city-dweller wearing the goggles would see Daffy Duck snoozing dreamily in a hammock. London would be transformed into something out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

这是个相当赛博朋克的预言，而且相当政治不正确（当然，这取决于你的幽默感–Augmented.org）。

Futurismic并没有对预言中的倾向做过多评论，只是进一步发展了这个预言场景。Futurismic把这个预言中的技术称为现实过滤器（reality filter），并凡是过滤器总是总是有漏洞的，到时候垃圾信息（Spam）就成了我们得以窥视现实的唯一通道。垃圾信息反到成了一线希望。很讽刺不是么？

As the first group works harder to filter out unwanted messages, the second works harder to break through. We see it in the arms race around advertising. We see it in politicians struggling to find new ways of reaching their audience. We see it in Google’s need to constantly change and update their pagerank algorithms as black hat SEOs learn to game the system.

So long as the arms race continues, the filters will get better without becoming perfect. And in those cracks, reality (or at least an alternate viewpoint) can intrude. Insofar as we believe that people can’t know in advance what is best for them or what information they should receive, we should celebrate inefficiencies in filters.

Augmented.org全面反击了Charlie Brooker的观点，首先Charlie Brooker所谈的技术在5-10年之内是不可能实现的，其次即使实现了，这也是一个双刃剑式的问题，没必要大惊小怪。

We are still in the early stages of AR, so let’s don’t do the second step before the first.

亲爱的读者，你的观点呢？

另：

九年前，我第一次听说赛博朋克，五年前，第一次读赛博朋克，想不到今天，我居然可以假装从事赛博朋克！HOLYSHIT！