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They can do opaque it seems. Quote from the rolling stone article: https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-introducing-magic-leaps-mixed-reality-

They can do opaque it seems. Quote from the rolling stone article: https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-introducing-magic-leaps-mixed-reality-goggles-w514479 https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro... > Miller wanted to show me one other neat trick. He walked to the far end of the large room and asked me to launch Gimbal. The robot obediently appeared in the distance, floating next to Miller. Miller then walked into the same space as the robot and promptly disappeared. Well, mostly disappeared, I could still see his legs jutting out from the bottom of the robot. > My first reaction was, “Of course that’s what happens.” But then I realized I was seeing a fictional thing created by Magic Leap technology completely obscure a real-world human being. My eyes were seeing two things existing in the same place and had decided that the creation, not the engineer, was the real thing and simply ignored Miller, at least that’s how Abovitz later explained it to me.

russdill 9y ago
It's unclear if this is just due to favorable lighting or not.
- muraiki 9y ago
  Read the Rolling Stone article where it explains how the light field tech works. It's nothing at all like a conventional display, but rather treats the eye as a filter and delivers to the eye the photons necessary to cause your _visual cortex_ to render the desired image. That's what makes this so different from any other VR/AR/mixed platform out there. Edit: Let me quote the article instead of explaining it poorly: "What that would mean is that the brain grabs more information and renders more detail when it needs to. And that completely changed the way Abovitz and his team were thinking about the light field problem. Suddenly, if the theory was right, technology didn’t need to capture the entirety of the light field and recreate it, it just needed to grab the right bits of that light field and feed it to the visual cortex through the eye...He was sure if they could create a chip that would deliver the right parts of a light field to the brain, he could trick it into thinking it was seeing real things that weren’t there. The realization meant that they were trying to get rid of the display and just use what humans already have."
  - russdill 9y ago
    I'm sorry, but this is technobabble and not an actual description of technology or engineering.
    - muraiki 9y ago
      Ok, then please read the article. People are discussing this tech as if it works like an Oculus or Hololens, but it doesn't.
      - russdill 9y ago
        Anyone who thinks it works like an Oculus is totally and completely wrong, as one is AR vs VR. Whether it works similarly to a Hololens is completely unknown. The technical details just aren't available. A ton of handwaving and promises of features but very little information on actual technology.
      - CamperBob2 9y ago
        I read the article. It's technobabble. I can't tell if it works, how it works, or why it might or might not actually work at all. About the only buzzword they're missing is "quantum superposition."

russdill 9y ago

It's unclear if this is just due to favorable lighting or not.

muraiki 9y ago
Read the Rolling Stone article where it explains how the light field tech works. It's nothing at all like a conventional display, but rather treats the eye as a filter and delivers to the eye the photons necessary to cause your _visual cortex_ to render the desired image. That's what makes this so different from any other VR/AR/mixed platform out there. Edit: Let me quote the article instead of explaining it poorly: "What that would mean is that the brain grabs more information and renders more detail when it needs to. And that completely changed the way Abovitz and his team were thinking about the light field problem. Suddenly, if the theory was right, technology didn’t need to capture the entirety of the light field and recreate it, it just needed to grab the right bits of that light field and feed it to the visual cortex through the eye...He was sure if they could create a chip that would deliver the right parts of a light field to the brain, he could trick it into thinking it was seeing real things that weren’t there. The realization meant that they were trying to get rid of the display and just use what humans already have."
- russdill 9y ago
  I'm sorry, but this is technobabble and not an actual description of technology or engineering.
  - muraiki 9y ago
    Ok, then please read the article. People are discussing this tech as if it works like an Oculus or Hololens, but it doesn't.
    - russdill 9y ago
      Anyone who thinks it works like an Oculus is totally and completely wrong, as one is AR vs VR. Whether it works similarly to a Hololens is completely unknown. The technical details just aren't available. A ton of handwaving and promises of features but very little information on actual technology.
    - CamperBob2 9y ago
      I read the article. It's technobabble. I can't tell if it works, how it works, or why it might or might not actually work at all. About the only buzzword they're missing is "quantum superposition."