Elman meanwhile suggested that the firm continues to track technologies that get people out from behind their desks and map our physical world, a la "Pokemon Go".
Google street-view maps our physical world, and augmented reality displays overlay it.
After wrestling for more than a decade with the development of a technology that would create a three-dimensional map of the physical world, the team at 6D.ai is finally ready to open up to developers its toolkit that the company says has done exactly that.
How will it extend the growing vibrancy of downtown across the river to Boyle Heights? "L.A. is on the world map, but the physical makeup of the city has a huge distance to go," Moss said.
Andrew Blum, a journalist giving a TED talk on the Internet's underrepresented ties to the physical world, described the Opte Project's map of the Internet (pictured below) as being strikingly similar to Apollo 17's famous picture of the Earth, The Blue Marble (pictured below that).
Far more detailed than Google Maps, these maps are models of the physical world, with information like the height of traffic signals, the position of curbs and more.
Ellard, a behavioral neuroscientist, believes that our mental maps of the physical world have become sparser over the course of human evolution; people are hopelessly disconnected from their setting.
Ellard argues that the human talent for abstraction — we can easily imagine places and spaces that don't exist — comes with a hidden cost, which is that our mental maps of the physical world have become sparser over the course of human evolution.
Like each avenue of visuals offered on the app, the AR aspect of "Dark Enough" was developed principally through gaming software, and then mapped to the physical world with real-time compositing.
Suddenly everyone understands what "augmented reality" means and how an artificial digital world can be mapped onto the real physical world.
There is authentic engagement in the physical world, and an awareness of the territory and map, directly and simultaneously.
