Reading people with the “Wizer” (click for article)

// I held the Wizer up to the evening sun and blew on an imaginary smudge, wiped it and flipped the slider to tint the glasses. To the average person, it looked like a pair of sunglasses with graduated lenses. The Wizer was overlaying visible red flags around the frown lines on his forehead, his pupils and his eyebrows. Krish’s own code was betraying him. //


The science behind the plot in Chapter 4 of Memories With Maya has an uncanny co-incidence to actual work being done by the SIMSENSEI project and as reported by MIT.


As the author of the story Memories with Maya, I did look at ways a depth camera combined with Computer vision [CV] libraries and Artificial intelligence could be used in unique ways and tried to weave that into the story. I did not have any access to universities or projects that were doing this. So it’s a happy co-incidence and I’m pleased that my independent (non-scientific) research and ideas were actually based on plausible science.


I’m amazed at how soon reality is catching up with fiction. It seems that we are already in a transhumanism stage of evolution… heading towards Singularity.


– Clyde DeSouza.


 


 

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Published on April 05, 2013 05:37
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