Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging and fast-growing technology innovation that I think would be a core human-content interface element in the very near future. It’s potential is massive as indicated in James Cameron’s “Avatar”. By the way, I thought Avatars deserves the Oscar far better than “The Hurt Locker”. I guess Hollywood after all cares what the military generals and bureaucracy in Capitol Hill thinks.
Anyway, there is so much potential in AR – in terms of further improvements and applications. Imagine having a meeting with someone one the other side of the globe yet you feel as though they are in the same room and right in front of your very own nose! A possible radical idea, instead of sending troops to battle and killing each other let’s bring the fighting into AR – one opposing force will go against the other, and the winner takes the stake. Since all this happens in the AR scenario, only the avatar dies, so we preserve human lives! (yes, it would be better if we are able to manage and control emotions prior to the red alert scenario…but you get where I am going at) In health care, specialist could better prepare for surgery prior to operating on patients.
However, one of the biggest challenges of most of the developers or early adopters is actually to improve motion so that it looks as close to real world scenario as possible. That is to make the avatar in that AR to walk, run, and have facial expressions or other humanly action as natural and closest to reality. I realize how difficult it was to even program or capture that digital movement or motion. What is more challenging and keep researchers awake at the night is to figure out how best to replicate and extrapolate these recorded motions (data) into other scenarios within the “game-play”. As you can already imagine, the scenarios are infinite!
It strikes me how excellent Allah azza wa jalla is. Not only does He immaculately create us, but also every other thing that exists in this reality (last I checked there was 6 billion of us here on earth) And this is in 2011, imagine the many humans that have lived on this earth and all elements beyond this planet! At the same time, Allah arranges this real-space-time, that is a system or unit of measure that is relative to humans only, with myriad of scenarios and possibilities. Far from the first principle notion of Aristotle, Allah’s potential and presence ever exists, felt perpetually in space and time. More paramount is the free-play and decision-making processes of these humans that ripple consequences in their lives that affirms the profound brilliance of Allah swt.
Further, how ever clever or independent (or some would say arrogant) the human considers himself to be, he is yet unable to replicate the perfect and infinite reality that Allah has created, is create and will create.
The question here is, while human (and I hope you, the reader, consider how you can have a role in this, AR, co-space, etc.) develop other dimensions of reality, should we be absent of the very reality that we exists in and ponder as to who it is that has created all this?
Is it possible for natural selection to ever happen – as we do not expect the avatars in AR to just simply pop out one day? Yes, they may be a big bang, but who was the catalyst that creates the inertia that leads to what we are experiencing today?
Logic would demand, especially looking at the intricate matter of developing an AR, for one to consider the presence of another higher intelligence beyond our own – that administers every single thing or the Arabic term, Ar Rabb.
“And blessed be He unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and with Whom is knowledge of the Hour, and unto Whom ye will be returned.” (The Qur’an, Chapter 43 – Az Zukhruf, Verse 85).
“And the sun runneth on unto a resting place for him. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.
And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shrivelled palm leaf. It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.” (The Qur’an, Chapter 36 – Yaa Sin, Verse 38-40).
“Allah is He who sendeth the winds so that they raise clouds, and spreadeth them along the sky as pleaseth Him, and causeth them to break and thou seest the rain downpouring from within them. And when He maketh it to fall on whom He will of His bondmen, lo! they rejoice;” (The Qu’ran, Chapter 30 – Ar Rum, Verse 48).
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