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That sound you hear is the sound thousands of advertisers creaming their pants. Now you will have to look at that ad, even if you close your eyes.
Not if the software is open source. On the contrary, you could run Adblock and never see another billboard.
It will be interesting to see if they are able to progressively scale up the resolution while still ensuring that you can actually see out of the lens. As cool as this is, though, I'm more interested in having them figure out more ways of restoring vision rather than augmenting it. For purely selfish reasons, I'm especially interested in retina replacement, which is being worked on (they've been able to create new re…
How were your retinas damaged, if I may ask?
You can get by with only one eye, but you don't have any real depth perception and you don't get any benefits from 3D movies (although you still get all the downsides). Plus, although I would love to try laser surgery to improve my vision in my remaining "good" eye (if you can call needing -9.5 power lenses good), the risks are still too high given the consequences if something went wrong.
How do you either keep them turned "upright" or detect rotation for updating the images? Contacts slide around in the eye a bit and their shape keeps them on the eye's lens pretty well, but there's no asymmetrical shape for keep the contact lens from rotating.
Show me the best ratio to winning when playing Blackjack. WIN!
I can also see the casinos' utopia coming to fruition: those without the smarts to count cards, without the expertise to play properly, without all their electronics gadgets, coming to play^W empty their wallets into buckets owned by the casinos.
I want one with facial recognition software. Never have that nervous moment again when you have to do introductions and you are just not quite so sure about your old acquaintances name.
That but with nice metadata associated with them. Imagine Rapportive in real life. That would be incredibly useful.
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How were your retinas damaged, if I may ask?
Luckily it was only a single retina that was damaged, and it was due to a parasite when I was under a year old, so I've never actually known what it was like to have two good eyes. You can get by with only one eye, but you don't have any real depth perception and you don't get any benefits from 3D movies (although you still get all the downsides). Plus, although I would love to try laser surgery to improve my vision…
I often wonder if there isn't more I could be doing -- hanging out near research hospitals that have good retina teams, following research, anything -- to keep abreast of new developments or maybe even get in on some trials for new procedures.
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How were your retinas damaged, if I may ask?
Luckily it was only a single retina that was damaged, and it was due to a parasite when I was under a year old, so I've never actually known what it was like to have two good eyes. You can get by with only one eye, but you don't have any real depth perception and you don't get any benefits from 3D movies (although you still get all the downsides). Plus, although I would love to try laser surgery to improve my vision…
Ha, there are some benefits?
For me, it is the latest snake powder intended to boost sells in movie and high-end electronic devices industry. I tried just once but, as far as I can tell, it has no benefit, except being able to say I have seen a part of a 3D movie.
I hear someone saying "improved immersion".
Well, immersion is not a function of some "more realistic" rendering. I never played Minecraft but apparently many people get deeply immersed in this low-fi world. I personally get easily immersed in any B&W Hitchcock movie. Our ancestors got so immersed at theater that the actor playing the bad guy had to be protected after the play. In Chinese opera, the full "ride a horse" movement is a very slight move of the right leg, and if done well all the spectators will stand up and shout 好！好！
So no, immersion is not improved with 3D, it is improved with good actors and story.
How do you either keep them turned "upright" or detect rotation for updating the images? Contacts slide around in the eye a bit and their shape keeps them on the eye's lens pretty well, but there's no asymmetrical shape for keep the contact lens from rotating.
Some lenses, I think mostly the soft ones, are asymmetrical: They are intentionally heavier on the bottom and let gravity rotate them into place.