weird

Are we there yet?

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May 24, 2025 at 9:19pmWeb
Show threadCreatingMachinesMay 24, 2025

Wasn't there some sort of concept tech for an airport, where cameras detect and recognize you, and then ensures that any screen that you can see will have the list that has your flight on it? Moreover, the thing about this tech is that the same screen can show different lists simultaneously for different people, simply based on their position and the angle at which they view the screen, if I remember correctly.

Now imagine that for public advertisements.

Show threadmacnielMay 24, 2025
targeted personalised ads but IRL!?
Show threadAtariDumpMay 24, 2025

Like Minority Report.

Welcome Mr. Yamamoto!

Show threadsteboMay 24, 2025
delete this comment before a CEO reads it
Show threadHawkMay 25, 2025

I know that at least in China (and I think a few airports in the US) have screens you stand in front of and immediately show your flight information by scanning your face.

So the technology is not that far off really.

Show threadFundMECFSMay 25, 2025
Maybe we should delete the CEOs instead
Show threadsteboMay 25, 2025
also a viable option
Show thread13igTymeMay 24, 2025
I was just thinking that. By the way, the technology is called parallel reality. It’s actually kind of cool, but would 100% be used to target ads.
Show threadarudesaladMay 24, 2025
This actually sounds really cool and I hate that the only way that this will get used is for advertisements…
Show threadx00zMay 25, 2025
“Find me a usecase where we can slowly make the public used to this”
Show threadthrowawayacc0430May 25, 2025
Can we just wear costumes like it’s Halloween 365 days of the year. Fuck this shit lol.
Show threadhovercatMay 25, 2025
They have this as a demo at DTW airport where you scan your boarding pass, and it displays on the massive main screen entering the terminal “Welcome (Your Name)” with your flight information, but only you can see. I don’t remember the maximum number of people who can use it independently, but It’s insanely cool technology nonetheless. I really hate the reality that it’ll probably only be used for personalized advertising though…
Show thread☂️-May 25, 2025
NO
Show threadegonallanonMay 24, 2025
So we all forgot the premise of “They Live” and are having to learn in again huh?
Show threadfaythofdragonsMay 25, 2025
CONSUME
Show thread_____May 25, 2025

I have noticed this sort of thing far too many times to ignore it.

Ad fingerprinting is extremely effective.

Show threaduniquethrowagayMay 25, 2025
I have never noticed that because I never see ads on any of my devices
Show threadinfinitesunriseMay 25, 2025
I’ve got ads and tracking pretty tamped down on my own devices, but it’s honestly terrifying how often when I hang out with friends who have non-FOSS phones or Windows running in the room that Amazon is trying to sell me the topics of the conversations we were having. And it’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who isn’t as sensitive to this, to tell them that their devices and software are compromising my privacy, and to get them to understand that as the consent issue it truly is.
Show threadBoxOfFeetMay 25, 2025
I have ads managed very well on my personal devices. I looked up camping stuff once on my work computer, and that is all I get on there now. Like, that’s all they have on me, so that’s what im going to get forever.
Show threadowlMay 25, 2025
“Ok, I’m gonna buy it, surely the adds will stop now.”
Adds intensity
Show threadreattachMay 25, 2025
They’re called “adds” because of value they add to your life
Show threadGeist_May 25, 2025
Well akchtually… I’m stopping here
Show threadgrrgyleMay 25, 2025
How naive to believe they would only be projected onto solid surfaces.