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I am personally not interested in AR or VR whatsoever. None of the use cases have ever been interesting to me. Some AR applications for professional use are abo

by bmitc 3y ago

I am personally not interested in AR or VR whatsoever. None of the use cases have ever been interesting to me. Some AR applications for professional use are about the only ones that seem valid. Sidenote: is he writing equations comically large on the blackboard for a reason?

zoky 3y ago
> Sidenote: is he writing equations comically large on the blackboard for a reason? Well, yeah, he probably can't see them properly otherwise. Remember how grandma always used to tell you you'd ruin your eyesight by sitting too close to the TV?
- rcarmo 3y ago
  In a teaching scenario, that is the norm. You err on the size of, well, size, because larger letters, especially written in a hurry, are easier to read by students sitting in the farthest rows of Ian amphitheater.
  - bmitc 3y ago
    No, it's not. That square root is well over a foot tall, maybe close to two feet, and he's clearly not in an amphitheatre.
regularfry 3y ago
This might be a "don't knock it until you've tried it" thing. All I really want right now is virtual monitors, but I'm open to the idea that might be a lack of imagination on my part.
- statusfailed 3y ago
  I'm in the same boat- I just want a simple headset that overlays a big, high-resolution monitor on my normal vision. The closest thing I know of is the [Simula One](https://www.simulavr.com/ https://www.simulavr.com/), which seems to be a VR "virtual monitor". VR instead of AR is a dealbreaker for me though- I want AR virtual monitors that overlay the displays on my actual vision. Even VR which uses a camera to pass through to the display isn't really what I want. My ideal hardware would just be a "dumb" AR display with wide FOV and an HDMI input that just overlays the video data onto my normal vision. From what I understand a big challenge is the wide FOV though, but I don't know enough about optics to really understand why this is the case.
  - crooked-v 3y ago
    It sounds like the closest thing to what you want is the Xreal Air, not the Simula One, which is a project for a full high-quality standalone VR headset (that happens to run Linux instead of Android like other standalones). > VR instead of AR is a dealbreaker for me though The problem with AR is a basic technical one: you can't use a transparent lens to paint black pixels over white light. That's why Apple, despite being desperate to make the "Apple Glasses", has basically abandoned AR entirely in favor of VR-but-the-video-passthrough-is-so-good-it-feels-like-AR design, and I would expect most other companies working on AR devices to follow suit.
    - regularfry 3y ago
      My Air turned up today. The "can't paint black with light on a transparent surface" solution is a sheet of plastic. Put it on when it matters, take it off if it doesn't... Can't fault it for simplicity.
Nzen 3y ago
The AR functionality that I want is the ability to darken the headlights of oncoming vehicles at night, so I can still see the road in front of me. Which I see is in the article itself.

by bmitc 3y ago

zoky 3y ago

> Sidenote: is he writing equations comically large on the blackboard for a reason? Well, yeah, he probably can't see them properly otherwise. Remember how grandma always used to tell you you'd ruin your eyesight by sitting too close to the TV?

rcarmo 3y ago
In a teaching scenario, that is the norm. You err on the size of, well, size, because larger letters, especially written in a hurry, are easier to read by students sitting in the farthest rows of Ian amphitheater.
- bmitc 3y ago
  No, it's not. That square root is well over a foot tall, maybe close to two feet, and he's clearly not in an amphitheatre.

regularfry 3y ago

This might be a "don't knock it until you've tried it" thing. All I really want right now is virtual monitors, but I'm open to the idea that might be a lack of imagination on my part.

statusfailed 3y ago
I'm in the same boat- I just want a simple headset that overlays a big, high-resolution monitor on my normal vision. The closest thing I know of is the [Simula One](https://www.simulavr.com/ https://www.simulavr.com/), which seems to be a VR "virtual monitor". VR instead of AR is a dealbreaker for me though- I want AR virtual monitors that overlay the displays on my actual vision. Even VR which uses a camera to pass through to the display isn't really what I want. My ideal hardware would just be a "dumb" AR display with wide FOV and an HDMI input that just overlays the video data onto my normal vision. From what I understand a big challenge is the wide FOV though, but I don't know enough about optics to really understand why this is the case.
- crooked-v 3y ago
  It sounds like the closest thing to what you want is the Xreal Air, not the Simula One, which is a project for a full high-quality standalone VR headset (that happens to run Linux instead of Android like other standalones). > VR instead of AR is a dealbreaker for me though The problem with AR is a basic technical one: you can't use a transparent lens to paint black pixels over white light. That's why Apple, despite being desperate to make the "Apple Glasses", has basically abandoned AR entirely in favor of VR-but-the-video-passthrough-is-so-good-it-feels-like-AR design, and I would expect most other companies working on AR devices to follow suit.
  - regularfry 3y ago
    My Air turned up today. The "can't paint black with light on a transparent surface" solution is a sheet of plastic. Put it on when it matters, take it off if it doesn't... Can't fault it for simplicity.

Nzen 3y ago

The AR functionality that I want is the ability to darken the headlights of oncoming vehicles at night, so I can still see the road in front of me. Which I see is in the article itself.