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Very Snow Crash, maybe. If I recall, the cyberdecks in that story used lasers to draw on the user's retinas, rather than an HMD.
by throwanem 2y ago
Very Snow Crash, maybe. If I recall, the cyberdecks in that story used lasers to draw on the user's retinas, rather than an HMD.
- NitpickLawyer 2y agoMicrosoft Research had a project like this at one point, with "goggles" that used lasers on your retina instead of LCDs to project images. No idea what happened to the project, as I haven't heard anything recently.
- corysama 2y agoI swear I remember reading in the 80s about the Air Force having monochrome VR goggles consisting of a per-eye laser, magnetic oil lens for per-pixel depth focus, two perpendicular rotating mirrors for the raster scan and a curved glass lens to reflect and focus the raster scan on to the retina.
- fy20 2y agoImagine walking through a shopping mall and suddenly having a Nike logo projected directly onto your retine, obscuring everything you see.
- Levitz 2y ago"Welp, time for terrorism I guess"
- throwanem 2y agoYeah, I mean I haven't been to Vegas myself, but I've had pillow talk with some people who went. (All illuminated signage could be said to draw on one's retinas, after all. The major differences I see with this method beyond improved gamut are first that it rasters, and second that I think we have to worry what happens if it fails to raster...)