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I might be getting old but this is the sort of magic by technology I would like to see more of in the world instead of using tech to try putting people into fake worlds in some metaverse.
I might be getting old but this is the sort of magic by technology I would like to see more of in the world instead of using tech to try putting people into fake worlds in some metaverse.
Keeping in touch with reality is extremely important (because we are bound by its rules after all), but virtual existence has enormous potential as well :)
(that can't be realized, and certainly not realized for everyone, in the world of atoms -- virtual reality is delightfully egalitarian)
Value the bits and atoms!
Reminds me of Mitsuba 2; see Caustic Design at about 3 mins into the first video: http://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/NimierDavidVicini2019Mitsuba...
(discovered via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063617 )
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This is quite a bit different. DLP like projectors are binary: straight forward or somewhere away. The layout of the grid of mirrors matches the layout of the dots you can illuminate, in the image. Something like OP has would require some pretty serious angular precision.
You could use holography/beamforming to steer a beam from a DLP, although it would be just a small % of the original power.
This is future of the street art. Mount it using liquid nails to some place that is hard to access and point it somewhere where lots of people will see it during rush hour. Eg.: You can install it in such way that parliament building will get defaced every day during lunch hours by mounting on near building or tall lamp post. Or maybe put it on your own roof, that way nobody can remove it :-)
I might be getting old but this is the sort of magic by technology I would like to see more of in the world instead of using tech to try putting people into fake worlds in some metaverse.
I don't think the particular metaverses available right now seem that good, but I don't share the consistent prejudices against virtual reality. Why is real reality any better? You can build awesome stuff in virtual reality as well (in fact, you can build almost anything imaginable, at a much lower cost). Keeping in touch with reality is extremely important (because we are bound by its rules after all), but virtual e…
Maybe not an intrinsic limitation, but for the foreseeable future, VR = a domain where some entity like Facebook is effectively omniscient and omnipotent.