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The virtual home sounds more appropriate for VR than AR or am I missing something about the in hospital scenario - with AR you'd still see all the hospital just

The virtual home sounds more appropriate for VR than AR or am I missing something about the in hospital scenario - with AR you'd still see all the hospital just with some bright holograms trying to be "in front"

throwanem 9y ago
Turn the lights off?
- Balgair 9y ago
  haha, if only you could.
- dby 9y ago
  HL needs light for environment tracking. The best way I've found is to use sleep mask to block the light while letting cameras "see"
  - zeusk 9y ago
    No it doesn't. Surface mapping is done via IR.
    - Balgair 9y ago
      Turns out the patients like having the lights on, so do the nurses, so they don't trip over anything. Pro-Tip: Want to change medicine and help the world? Find a way to get rid of the wires and tubes. It is really amazing how many wires and tubes there are in a room these days. Yeah, wireless charging and all that, but often that'll mess up a pacemaker (maybe) and so it's avoided. Also, bandwidth issues with a whole building of wireless signals. It's not easy, but it would help more so than a cancer vaccine.
Balgair 9y ago
You know, I've never been able to pin down what the difference is between AR and VR, everyone has a different answer. Basically, yes, we'd use the non HL ones for 'home' visits while in the hospital, if the kids can handle the nausea (they tend to be on a lot of meds, things get complicated). Again, the 'hacker ethos' doesn't really work in a hospital, moving fast and breaking things is a no-go with the Hippocratic oath.
- ninju 9y ago
  The way it's been explained to me: VR -> Virtual Reality is where the entire landscape is computer generated, the viewer does NOT see anything other than what the computer generates. AR -> Augmented Reality is where the viewer is able to see around them and the computer projects images to the glass surface, at the right size and color, so that they appear to be in the world around the viewer

throwanem 9y ago

Turn the lights off?

Balgair 9y ago
haha, if only you could.
dby 9y ago
HL needs light for environment tracking. The best way I've found is to use sleep mask to block the light while letting cameras "see"
- zeusk 9y ago
  No it doesn't. Surface mapping is done via IR.
  - Balgair 9y ago
    Turns out the patients like having the lights on, so do the nurses, so they don't trip over anything. Pro-Tip: Want to change medicine and help the world? Find a way to get rid of the wires and tubes. It is really amazing how many wires and tubes there are in a room these days. Yeah, wireless charging and all that, but often that'll mess up a pacemaker (maybe) and so it's avoided. Also, bandwidth issues with a whole building of wireless signals. It's not easy, but it would help more so than a cancer vaccine.

Balgair 9y ago

You know, I've never been able to pin down what the difference is between AR and VR, everyone has a different answer. Basically, yes, we'd use the non HL ones for 'home' visits while in the hospital, if the kids can handle the nausea (they tend to be on a lot of meds, things get complicated). Again, the 'hacker ethos' doesn't really work in a hospital, moving fast and breaking things is a no-go with the Hippocratic oath.

ninju 9y ago
The way it's been explained to me: VR -> Virtual Reality is where the entire landscape is computer generated, the viewer does NOT see anything other than what the computer generates. AR -> Augmented Reality is where the viewer is able to see around them and the computer projects images to the glass surface, at the right size and color, so that they appear to be in the world around the viewer