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> Eventually we'll just jack our devices directly into our visual cortex instead of bothering with all the issues screens+optics brings. This will not work. Th
by msutherl 13y ago
> Eventually we'll just jack our devices directly into our visual cortex instead of bothering with all the issues screens+optics brings.
This will not work. The visual system is not an "information processing" system like a computer. In order to wire an "accurate input" into your brain, you would need to duplicate all of the nonlinear optical, electrical, and chemical transformations performed by the eye, in which case you might as well just use your eye.
In other words, we don't just see what comes out of the screen, so wiring that data into your brain will be gibberish at worst and a somewhat compromised new sense organ at best.
- comex 13y agoYes, but once you solve those issues, you don't need a super high resolution, light field based (or otherwise adjustable focus) display that's very small and has very high battery life, to achieve the same portability. Your face doesn't need to have a weird-looking and -feeling object on it, and if you can hook into the original eye signal, you get a free dual camera for AR. Oh, and on a less geeky note, it gives sight to the blind. The resolution and the focus will certainly be solved long before an implant could give remotely similar performance, but an implant would sure be neat for the other reasons.