Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Ar porn!

Check this out!
It's a wedding photo. Yeah. That is so crazy it's racist.
Does this turn you on? You're in luck, your improbably odd fantasy can be realized through the magic of Augmented Reality.

If you haven't heard of augmented reality, I think this chart from wikipedia is very helpful.
So that's basically all you need to know. That and: Japan knows about it. Take a look at this.
 The basic idea is, you have that little cube there, and there is a different design on each side. You aim a web cam at the cube, the computer processes the video feed and superimposes a little animated virtual lady on the image. One might say it augments it. Depending on which side of the cube is facing up, the girl does different things.
You'll notice Thing here is holding a little stick with another pattern at the end of it. This becomes a finger you can poke the girl with and our groom rejoices. Now he can dump his wife and live happily with Aris here. I think that's her name.
Perhaps it's easier to understand with the video.

The company that sells this product has this to say about Aris:
"2025年 拡張現実が普及した頃、時空のひずみに落ちて2008年にやってきた、VF-03メイド型電脳娘アリス。性格はのんびり屋さんで天然。
電脳メイド養成ハイスクール第弐期生。ご主人様には忠誠心が強くて。ご主人様から求められたことはなんでも一生懸命に応えようとします。
趣味は、ショッピングとファッション、そして歌って踊ること。"
Which is mostly incomprehensible gibberish to me but I do see  "2025年" which means the year 2025.
I guess she's supposed to be from 2025. That ain't that far off. We'll all be wearing wacky chrome space uggs and using laser brooms (pretty sure that's what that is) to sweep up our space dust bunnies. (But why would we use laser brooms when certainly Sir James Dyson will have invented 4 new kinds of suction by then?) And we're all neo-victorians, or at least Japan is. Guess Neal Stephenson was right.
The website also has this to say about her.
誕生日 2月14日
身長 160cm
体重 48kg
スリーサイズ B90 / W46 / H80
Born on Valentines' day, 5 foot 3, 105 lb and busty! Did I mention you can get little outfits for her?
The picture on the top left corner, those little cards become outfits when passed before the magic camera lens. You can see the cube and the poker there too.
Well good job Japan. Did you know that the oldest documented pornographic film was made in 1908? It was called A L'Ecu d'Or ou la bonne auberge. A scant 102 years later and look how far video smut has come. Have you heard of the Kinect? It can only get weirder.




P.S. Apparently ARis is the name of one of the companies who made this. Geisha Tokyo is the other. I don't know what this girl's name is and I don't care to know.

No comments:

Post a Comment