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iPhones solve the camera angle by changing the position of the pupil in software instead.
It’s a bit uncanny valley though, right?
I’ve never noticed it, so apparently not.
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#132I’ve said many times, eye contact will be the killer app of VR…
… but it will be ironic if 2D beats the VR companies to it, using technology like this.
What an utter failure on the part of Meta that would be. With such a huge head start and they still don’t sell eye contact (except on their Pro device? Maybe?)
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#133Years ago I was able to visit Zeiss in Oberkochen. They had a fantastic headquarters with a few older lithographs. I think a couple of the instruments were 80 millions dollars or so. There’s a facility across from the Autobahn that was so sensitive trucks going by would throw off their machines. They had to put padding on the autobahn to prevent it. This was after they put the foundation on some kind of suspension. M…
Feels like it would be easier to buy land not next to a highway :-)
You need to attract PHDs and account for logistics. If you want to attract top talent you need to be in a desirable place or be a desirable place with access to desirable places.
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#134Years ago I was able to visit Zeiss in Oberkochen. They had a fantastic headquarters with a few older lithographs. I think a couple of the instruments were 80 millions dollars or so. There’s a facility across from the Autobahn that was so sensitive trucks going by would throw off their machines. They had to put padding on the autobahn to prevent it. This was after they put the foundation on some kind of suspension. M…
Feels like it would be easier to buy land not next to a highway :-)
None of the PhDs are in Facilities Management.
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#135Looks cool. The unfortunate thing, is that, whenever an "exciting new camera tech" is announced, the image quality is often debatable.
But even relatively poor image quality might be cool, if you had a camera built into your monitor, so you could do direct-eye-contact video calls.
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Yes but I have my iPhone everywhere and the pictures the 15 pro max takes are beyond ‘good enough’. Even the zoom is pretty good nowadays. Often the choice isn’t iPhone photo or DSLR photo it’s iPhone or no photo at all. It’s a right faff getting the DSLR out and carrying it around. I brought mine to NYC over Xmas and ended up using my phone mostly. Also no one I know prints photos out, they look at them on their pho…
I regularly use my DSLR and print photos with my own canon photoprinter. i bought a 70mm-300mm lens for a bronyconvention (galacon) and it is simply impossible to get images of that quality with a phone. and the 50mm f1.8 is really great considering the low price.
Yes and I manually sort through thousands of sunflower seeds every year to get the good ones for my breeding program but our obscure hobbies aren’t the norm.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
iPhones solve the camera angle by changing the position of the pupil in software instead.
Given that this will probably only produce a relatively low res, high SNR image, it might be the sweet spot is to use this tech to capture a true eye-contact perspective from the glass in front of a screen, then neural net combine it with images from offset cameras, to create a 'true' through-the-screen view.
why stop there? one rendering for each eyeball
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#138Can some correct me in saying that this is equivalent to having a 20+ inch sized sensor? The focal length would be extraordinary
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#139> This means that everything from the window in your car to the screen on your laptop to the glass on your front door can now possess an invisible image sensor. Retailers, marketers, and data brokers are salivating.
I can't wait until the windows in our homes plaster ads over everything every time we look outside. It'll sure be distracting when it's the windshields of our cars, but I do look forward to the legal drama when companies get sued for painting their "holographic" ads on top of the adspace other people already paid to pollute with their own advertisements.
I think it may be more cost effective to put ads in subsidized smart glasses and contact lenses. (A little dystopian, I know.)
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Here's their CES page with a video: https://exhibitors.ces.tech/8_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details....
Thanks for sharing. More of an animation than a proper video
I found a recording of it here (from IAA 2023):
https://youtu.be/NORPeCcIXRQ