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"You are looking at a reflection, nothing is painting your eyeball." Each photon is reflected to a specific, targeted location on the retina. This is in contra
by endorphone 7y ago
"You are looking at a reflection, nothing is painting your eyeball."
Each photon is reflected to a specific, targeted location on the retina. This is in contrast to normal vision where photons are reflected from and to multiple angles.
Which is why this is always perfectly in focus -- the normal path of light means that light is captured across the surface of our eye and needs to be focused to converge on a point (within the limits of the eye's ability to do so, and with the reality that it only has one focus distance at a time). This system, in contrast, is "painting" the retina so that it is addressing specific target pixels, so to speak, regardless of the focus of the eye.
Their terminology seems okay.
- davidhyde 7y agoNice explanation, thanks. Kind of like a very short throw laser projector where everything (the wall) is in focus, regardless of the distance or angle from the "fancy lens". I was just triggered by their use of "paint" when the process is passive.