In some ways, most interesting on that site is the Nomad -- 7k, sure, but it's a monocular HUD that projects an 800x600 image ON YOUR RETINA -- having it float above the ambient view without blocking your eyesight! Talk about not interfereing...
That said, it's also monochrome -- which is presumably a function of the useful medium as well as the current tech. One wonders whether this is likely to be worked on long term -- as opposed to full-enclosure video that just digitally merges the delivered image with the ambient one. With fast enough digital processing, there wouldn't be much of a delay for the latter (vrealities does have a few applicatiosns of that; I noticed a nightsight/HUD hybrid), and with a bit of shrinkage, you could manage to inject data into your view without blocking that of the ambient environment at all (shrink it and stick 270 degrees of vision in a box, or put the displayed words on the most visible white surface (actually, you could manage that one with the eye projection tech), or whatever).
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Date: 2007-02-08 10:16 pm (UTC)In some ways, most interesting on that site is the Nomad -- 7k, sure, but it's a monocular HUD that projects an 800x600 image ON YOUR RETINA -- having it float above the ambient view without blocking your eyesight! Talk about not interfereing...
That said, it's also monochrome -- which is presumably a function of the useful medium as well as the current tech. One wonders whether this is likely to be worked on long term -- as opposed to full-enclosure video that just digitally merges the delivered image with the ambient one. With fast enough digital processing, there wouldn't be much of a delay for the latter (vrealities does have a few applicatiosns of that; I noticed a nightsight/HUD hybrid), and with a bit of shrinkage, you could manage to inject data into your view without blocking that of the ambient environment at all (shrink it and stick 270 degrees of vision in a box, or put the displayed words on the most visible white surface (actually, you could manage that one with the eye projection tech), or whatever).