valentinheun

I was never at TechCrunch Disrupt but I watched the Silicone Valley Show. :-P

I had a talk at the last Solid Conference. Maybe that was the event you know me from?

I would say that there are a ton of people in the world that love to build things, because its how we came to that point where we are. This is the sole reason why the world around you exists.

Imagine building becomes so easy that it is more of an "amazing" experience for you then a "geeky" long lasting frustration.

You can checkout openhybrid.org for some of these questions. We do research in the Media Lab not product development. The Reality Editor is a projection in to the future. But have a look at the costs of SoC's. It's going down so rapidly that in 2 years your question probably will be answered.

The moment real products will be in the marked that make use of the Reality Editor, you will power them up and just point your phone on them. It should not be more complicated.

I disagree! The internet is successful because authoring and publishing became as easy as consuming. The first web browser was an editor and a browser in the same time.

The most successful webpages are those where people are authors. People want tools that empower them to engage with their environment.

To say people don't want to "rewire" their products is like saying that you don't want to connect your Electric Guitar with a wire to the Amplifier.

That is a good scenario. What you see in the video and on open hybrid is really as much as we can put in to code at this point and I believe that it is a very good beginning.

There is so much more that we want to implement and some of it would give answers for your situation.

I think the Reality Editor will grow incremental and every version will be a bit better then the version before. In some years, when your car actually has this functionality, your scenario will be solved.

But this is what makes us Humans! The development of tools. You would not be able to write these messages if not for all the tools build along our path. Simple physical tools like a screwdriver enable us to fix and create objects in the physical space. Throughout history we build new tools for every new development to the point that we where able to build the internet. There are many things that are not quite right with the internet today, maybe this is where your sadness comes from? But as long as we build tools to empower individual humans to expand their horizon, I think that it is worth to build and use new tools. The Reality Editor opens up a new category of tools, this is what makes it powerful. It is a power for your own hands to enable you, similar a screw driver did for generations before.

I think the new specifications for bluetooth with ip6 and Mesh networking are interesting. But the open hybrid platform builds up on the most common ground. If WiFi pollutes the spectrum, jet there are more and more SoC's with WiFi on board pushing in to the IoT marked, maybe the WiFi consortium will take care of the pollution with a LE standard update.

Yes, this is a big thing. Our goal is it to make the creation of objects so easy that it can become a simple part of the workflow of a product + web designer. Very very very low entry barrier.

This is something we continuously work on with the open hybrid development tools.

On the other side, the marker is limiting the visual shape of an object. The limitation do provoke new shapes as well. It has some interesting properties.

Long story short. Technology is on its way and the marker will disappear. ;-)

I agree. At this point it really makes no sense to use this. But hey people said that about the internet back then. ;-)

We use natural feature tracking. The pattern is really just because of a design choice. It can be very kind of visual structure.

Hi its Valentin, the guy in the video. Let me know if you have any questions. :-)