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Future of augmented reality
BuriaL:
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While I'd argue that you'd need a powerful computer (AKA the brain) to actually "Zoom", it still does makes one wonder. Is the human eye the best lens of its size? Or would something like a hawks eye blow that shit out of the water? Or does it require some "computing power" to reach potential (AKA Brain computation).
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Birds may have better eyes, but theyre brains are made for it.
I read something about what advanced laser treatment would do to a person if he got "hawk sight".
It would flood the brain with to much sensory information, causing the person to go insane.
Cant find any info about it on the net for some reason. Maybe somone else can dig in the google pile.
DeadSpaceX:
--- Quote from: BuriaL on February 12, 2010, 02:37:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: fohfoh on February 11, 2010, 03:33:49 AM ---..
While I'd argue that you'd need a powerful computer (AKA the brain) to actually "Zoom", it still does makes one wonder. Is the human eye the best lens of its size? Or would something like a hawks eye blow that shit out of the water? Or does it require some "computing power" to reach potential (AKA Brain computation).
--- End quote ---
Birds may have better eyes, but theyre brains are made for it.
I read something about what advanced laser treatment would do to a person if he got "hawk sight".
It would flood the brain with to much sensory information, causing the person to go insane.
Cant find any info about it on the net for some reason. Maybe somone else can dig in the google pile.
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Sensory overload happens at birth, the brain adjusts...and continues to adjust throughout life. No quantum supercomputer can match that resilience. It can be programmed to handle input, sort and filter...the human brain does it automatically though. Your eyes, ears, sense of smell, of touch, and not just your hands, your skin, the clothes you wear(how they feel), wind, temp, vibration, everything gets input and then filtered down to what your conscious mind needs to know. In the case of extreme overload in some people = fainting, pc terms...shutdown and reboot. That's why you'll sometimes see people faint more than once if whatever is causing the overload is still around.
Human eyes average around 500~600 megapixels, there are limitations so bird or other animal sight capabilities are limited by how many rods/cones can be added and utilized since they are a predetermined size( you can only pack so many in a given area). Birds, depending on species include UV spectrum and infrared visual capabilities. So human eye isn't the best...but it works for what humans need to use it for :) . We don't really need UV or infrared capable vision.
If you really think about how much input you receive through all your senses in 1 second...you realize how amazing the brain really is. It sorts, filters, and then hands you (usually) only what you need to know realtime (no perceivable lag). and does this throughout your life. As well as storing memories, controlling your body, enabling speech and letting you think...
Augmented reality...still years away, and no doubt once fully implemented their will be those that can't handle the load. i can't wait :) ads will be ignored (filtered)...as they are on web pages now.
isukianime:
it's already available on bing maps. The video is in Engish
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
nstgc:
I have little interest in replacing my sight with a computer stream, but I do like the idea for an overlay.
I see the video that Lapa posted as being something we can achieve in 100 years perhaps. It can be done before that, but it won't be main stream.
ilk3000:
The Golden Age, by John C. Wright had an interesting setting, where everyone is in their own augmented reality and aesthetics are negotiated and experienced differently between the perceptions of different individuals. For a general instance, I see clothes and objects and other things as being concurrent with a classical Greek aesthetic and you see the same things in a neo-Japanese aesthetic.
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