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Google Reveals its Answer to Apple's ARKit With 'ARCore', Bringing AR to 100M Android Devices
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And when I thought this was the iPhone 8's special feature..... LMAO
First entrant has the edge. Bad for Google.
Same with AI. Bad for Apple.
Your many comments on many posts: an Android fan, not market observer?
Lol if you do your research...Google is actually the first entrant. We had project Tango to work out any kinks....now it will be mass released. Thanks
Only the distance you are moving, not the distance to an object. And it's not accurate enough and doesn't work well indoors.
Tango? RIP. AR Core, according to Google, is (1) a complete reboot and (2) intentionally similar to Apple. The demo reveals both aspects.
So, who is this “we”? You are not Google’s spokesperson, or you are so off-message that you will be soon not their spokesperson xD
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So, my first point was that AR Core was a demo, not yet a usable kit. Google has now gone on the record to admit this as reboot.
Next, my second observation was that first entrants have an advantage. Google had an advantage in AI because they were first to invest significantly and then they forfeited that advantage because Tango, like Glass and the first Google phone and some early Apple projects for example, was half-heartedly testing the waters.
But unlike your glib disclosures of bias that i am sure Google appreciates, many of the longer term commenters here believe that Competition Is King. If Google does commit to AR and to Pixel, we all gain. We actually want to see this. And that was my bottom line in the first post.
I wasn't the one with the sarcasm, but the post I was replying to.
It is lack of QC from both companies. And if Samsung could claim that the battery was manufactured by another company, apple can only blame themselves. At the end of the day, QC can fail for any company. Funny that many people here still think otherwise after antennagate and bendgate and all the poor excuses that followed them.
Tru dat, QC process meets competitive pressures.
Bendgate - when Apple expected access to the stronger liquidmetal.
Antennagate - when Steve found the downside equivalency but an unavoidably marketing design upside. Shiny! Steve.
Batterygate - when Apple faked like it would release early and with more features. They tried again this year but Samsung stuck to its QC this time. Samsung cannot really blame the battery mfg tho because (a) it was one of the main mfgs, (b) the battery was susceptible but the straw that broke the camels back was Samsung squeezing too much battery into too small a space, and (c) other internal Samsung designs for that phone including the quick charge (ironically QC) pushing beyond prudence that time and chip layout being inefficient an problematic for heat dispersion.
Apple f-ed up, Samsung f-ed up. In the interest of competition, so QC is risk management not risk avoidance.
Some avoid making phones and stick to software, like Google. Many here have repeatedly said however that Google sticking with Pixel will be a boon for all. Yahoo tried only software, remember xD oh Yahoo.
Unless you have a Google Pixel or a Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 7.0 Nougat), you are probably still going to be out of luck... or a at in for a long wait given the hodgepodge of different sensor technologies and chip-sets in different Android OEM handsets that ARCore is going to have to be optimised and calibrated for.
Awesome explanation, thanks! I'm familiar with rotoscoping in general, but wasn't aware of all that cool stuff you can do with Adobe software. The "difference matting" was the part I'd never heard of, and now I know whyOh, awesome, I hope I can do these terms justice in a quick forum explanation. They're pretty cool.
Rotoscoping involves drawing over live action footage for various reasons. If you've ever seen A Scanner Darkly, you've seen rotoscoping used to create a cartoon from live action footage. However, for video editing in general, rotoscoping is used for drawing over live action footage to create masks. You can use the mask to isolate a character from their background and put them somewhere else (think green-screen/chroma-key but by hand).
Automatic rotoscoping tools, like Adobe's Rotobrush, allow editors to quickly draw over an object in one frame, and then the mask will move to cover the character as it moves in following frames. If you've ever used Photoshop's Magic Wand tool, it's like that but also keeps track of the selected object as it moves. Below, I've Rotobrushed the annoying Apple Genius character from those poorly-received ads and placed it into this scene from a well-received iPhone ad. I also had to Rotobrush the hat person, so they'd remain above the Genius.
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As for difference matting (I don't know if that's the real term), it's basically green screen without a green screen; you take a photo of the background, have the subject walk in front of it, and then remove the parts of the footage that still look like background. You can do this right now using Photo Booth! Fire it up, click 'Effects' and then click on the fourth dot. I recommend starting with the 'Fish' effect to get a clear idea of what's happening.
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Will def check out the Photo Booth effect.I'm hoping that the rotoscoping thing is something that Apple itself comes out with, since they've already started something similar, but limited, in their Clips app:
