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It would be cool if you could look thru the car like fighter pilots can. See thru the pillars and other obstructions.
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Why does the location matter? If its 10k on your eyeball or 10k from across the room there is the same amount of light entering your eye.
Unless the one across the room is a laser, it does matter.
A 100 nits huge screen at a distance that covers 20% of my field of vision would be the same as a 100 nits tiny screen close to my eye that covers 20% of my field of vision.
Or to put it another way, things don't look dimmer just because they're further away. It's less total light because it covers less of my field of vision.
My dream application: Google maps hud for when I go motorcycling. Right now the options are 1) Mount an arm to the handlebar and risk my phone detaching or breaking in a crash 2) phone is in my pocket so I can hear instructions, but not see the screen. having my phone in my jacket pocket, but transmitting to my contact lens would be pretty great.
For a motorbike setup I'd imagine integrating into the visor of a helmet would be an easier option than a contact lenses. Is there anything a helmet-based option wouldn't provide?
Vibration on motorcycles is significant.
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The fact they didn't give an actual pixel count makes me think they mean 14,000 per square inch, which with these measurements means four pixels.
Did I math wrong? 0.02 in * 0.02 in == 0.0004 sq in 0.0004 sq in * 14000 ppi == 5.6 pixels
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many many years ago i saw a nat geo "fighting documentary" where the guest (special forces something, ) had a eye tracker and a random person walk through a test course. what they showed was the "special guest" was actively looking and investigating threats, checking surroundings and assessing everything. the random person was just "walking" without actually "looking" or "concentrating" on anything, . "guest" was doi…
That sounds interesting, do you happen to know how one could find this documentary?
edit: looks like "fight science" or "human weapon"
Uh-oh. No it won't. This is dead.
It's written by Vernor Vinge, who wrote A Fire Upon the Deep, and its prequel A Deepness in the Sky.
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You know what contacts don’t solve? Shoving your finger into your eye, cleanliness and fatigue. I stuck with glasses precisely because I didn’t want to deal with keeping contacts clean, shoving things in my eyes everyday, and retaining the ability to just pop them off and ignore the world.
You can stick with glasses then. Liking contacts is a very reasonable prerequisite. I've had no trouble with my contacts for the last 20 years.
But there are billions of people who wear glasses. We wear them for pretty much everything. We don’t care that we have glasses. But contacts make the technology “invisible” for “seamless uptake”?
Miniaturising things to contacts just sounds like they made everything at least an order of magnitude harder to achieve. Meanwhile they could have generated revenue from the glasses wearing population.
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I'd wear a vibrator up my ass all day if that thing was made for me first instead of the company. The way things are right now, none of these AR/VR/AI/PA products will succeed, and if they do, it will be in a dystopian future.
If you do decide to wear a vibrator up your ass all day, ButtPlug.io is at least an open source and self hostable platform for it. So that part of it is sorted.
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Whatever tech could make these AR contacts comfortable to wear all day would be worth a fortune for plain old prescription contacts. I’m willing, he’ll I’d be happy and excited, to be proven wrong here, but it seems to me that the balance of probability tips in favour of them having something half-baked and non-viable, and my eyes are definitely too precious to risk them on a bad v1 product
To be fair, AR contact lenses could more easily absorb a $10 premium on a material that is more comfortable for extended wear than regular contact lenses. Yes, it would be good if contacts were more comfortable, but maybe it's a cost problem rather than a lack of capability.