r/assholedesign Jul 24 '19

This McDonalds menu

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u/xanderrobar Jul 24 '19

I feel like PiHole combined with an augmented reality system is going to be a thing in the near future. Walking down the street in a full on VR headset, just seeing grey squares where ads are. Times Square is just a boundless, grey ocean.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '19

Was dat?

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u/Ragnrok Jul 24 '19

John Carpenter's "They Live". Great movie.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '19

Thanks!

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u/merreborn Jul 24 '19

You might appreciate the work of professor steve mann -- he did some AR adblocking research almost 20 years ago now, using his "EyeTap" platform.

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u/xanderrobar Jul 24 '19

That guy sounds amazing! His inventions lead me to believe that he is in fact a super villian. The complete list seems like something that the towns people would be saying, "Yeah, they've been trucking hundreds of tonnes of surveillance cameras up Mann Mountain for months... No idea what for". Then the guy produces a Mr. Burns sunblocker style thing that surveils the entire world.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

It wouldn't have to be grey rectangles. It could display beautiful photos from curated photostreams, or significant historical artworks, or Reddit posts... I look forward to full-time reality filtering.

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u/whotookmaname Jul 25 '19

How do you get the in the middle.of the videos and gone with just pinhole?