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On a scale of $.99 mail order "X-Ray" glasses to cyborg, how significant is this?
by yk 10y ago
On a scale of $.99 mail order "X-Ray" glasses to cyborg, how significant is this?
- vhhuhhfryuhgfh 10y agoSounds like butterfly level vision (4 cones)
- chillingeffect 10y agoSeems like it could be expanded to a total of 6 cones, three per eye? what a time to be alive :)
- jcl 10y agoCuriously, it seems hexachromacy is already within the realm of biological possibility for human females. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachromacy#Animals_that_are_potentially_pentachromats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachromacy#Animals_that_are...
- ConceptJunkie 10y agoI'm holding out for dodecachromacy like the mantis shrimps have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes
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- XaspR8d 10y agoI'm not in the field, but I think the cool thing about this is that it's accomplishable with passive components created with straightforward tech (one filter was off-the-shelf). Most hyperspectral/extraspectral visualization tools require complicated active displays. That said, it's pretty similar technology to those color-blindness correction glasses [1] -- just filters that accentuate the distinctions between colors you could already see. From a philosophical perspective, it's probably not going to be emergently perceived as a whole new color "dimension", but rather just an augmentation to your preexisting experience. I do think these kinds of small tools will be a key, but subtle part of AR in the future. I would certainly take a pair myself. I always like wearing polarized sunglasses because you can perceive the extra information of which materials are polarizing or dichroic.