on Apr 5, 2013

// I held the Wizer up to the evening sun and blew on an imaginary smudge, wiped it and flipped the slider to tint the glasses. To the average person, it looked like a pair of sunglasses with graduated lenses. The Wizer was overlaying visible red flags around the frown lines on his forehead, his pupils and his eyebrows. Krish’s own code was betraying him. //

M.I.T’s SimSensei – The Psychologist:

The science behind the plot in Chapter 4 of Memories With Maya has an uncanny co-incidence to actual work being done by the SIMSENSEI project and as reported by MIT.

In the hard science novel Memories with Maya, there was research put into ways a depth camera [read: kinect like device] combined with Computer vision [CV] libraries and Artificial intelligence could be used in unique ways and woven into the story. None of the independent research was privy to university research or projects that were doing this. It’s a happy co-incidence the independent (non-scientific) research put into the story is actually based on plausible science.

In these exponential times, it is fascinating to see how soon reality is catching up to near future fiction. It seems that we are already in a transhumanism stage of evolution… heading towards Singularity.