Interesting Links for 23-07-2017

China forces its Muslim minority to install spyware on their phones

(tags: China islam surveillance phones OhForFucksSake )

How could so many be furious over a female Doctor Who? They answer is they’re not

Anyone fancy gathering evidence and writing a rebuttal?
(tags: internet anger fraud media drwho )

The Charlie Gard story reveals what we won't accept about medicine

(tags: medicine society death fail )

The Truth Behind Snape's First Words To Harry In 'Harry Potter'

(tags: viaSwampers harrypotter flowers )

A world of free movement would be $78 trillion richer

(tags: immigration economics )

Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day in August

(tags: bears )

The state of Augmented Reality

Five years ago I had a disagreement with a friend over whether this article was being overly pessimistic about augmented reality and whether we'd have "hard" AR soon.

Five years later, and this is the state of the art:

Watch on YouTube

Which is, I totally admit, a very neat tech demo. But it's not "there" yet. The FOV is too small, and you can see the real world through it. Although, to be fair, most of the time the real world isn't _that_ distracting, you're definitely not going to be able to "see Victorian gas lamps in place of normal lights" or "have a real Coke can that you want to turn into an AR Pepsi can by drawing a Pepsi logo over the Coke logo".

Ah well, I'll make a note to come back in five years time and see where we are then!