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Future of augmented reality
lapa321:
I wonder what it'd be like to play a dating sim on that thing.
NaRu:
if they can stream the information directly to the brain then I would love it
fohfoh:
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O RLY?
However, you get some glasses, or an unnoticable contact lens which can overlay information and you get something interesting. Especially if it can tap into the retina optic nerve and get directly at the info, then you could digital zoom etc... I wonder how good digital zoom on human vision would be... hmm.
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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).
sanguis:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on February 11, 2010, 03:33:49 AM ---
--- Quote from: molbjerg on February 10, 2010, 04:05:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 10, 2010, 03:09:48 PM ---Seriously, biological engineering of humans by evolusion is a technology that is still far ahead than what we make ourselves.
--- End quote ---
O RLY?
However, you get some glasses, or an unnoticable contact lens which can overlay information and you get something interesting. Especially if it can tap into the retina optic nerve and get directly at the info, then you could digital zoom etc... I wonder how good digital zoom on human vision would be... hmm.
--- End quote ---
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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A bird of preys eyes can hands down bet just about any other predator out there (not sure about there colour vision though), they have eyes that allow them to read standard sized writing from hundreds of meters away. There brains aren't that impressive, relatively speaking. If you get a 3 megapixel camera and stick a $2,000 lens on it you would get much better pictures than if you didn't use the lens.
Additionally with quantum computing you can get very powerful computers (as good as a human brain if not better) in something the size of a grain of sand; inject one of those into your brain and you've doubled you processing power and infinitely increased your (know eidetic) memory. If you were to have as many quantum computers as you did brain cells then you would be so far beyond human as to be incomprehensible.
As to the OP; I do find some of those features to be useful, like having a timer on the kettle and being able to watch M*A*S*H on the kitchen wall, it would improve multi-tasking a great deal.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: molbjerg on February 10, 2010, 04:05:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 10, 2010, 03:09:48 PM ---Seriously, biological engineering of humans by evolusion is a technology that is still far ahead than what we make ourselves.
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O RLY?
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Yes, none of the stuff you mentioned exists yet, so I rest my case.
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