[HN Gopher] A Parachute Accident in 1992 jump-started the birth ...
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       A Parachute Accident in 1992 jump-started the birth of Augmented
       Reality
        
       Author : bonkerbits
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-08-07 13:18 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | vlovich123 wrote:
       | TLDR: he needed cameras to do AR. They were hard to get at the
       | time. Dummy thrown out of an airplane with a bunch of sensors and
       | cameras failed to deploy its parachute. Scavenged two cameras out
       | of the six on the dummy to build his AR system.
        
         | daoist_shaman wrote:
         | This made me happy since there were no deaths.
        
       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | interesting History of Science moment of course, and let me add
       | another angle to that..
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       | * many computer circuits and components were invented in Silicon
       | Valley over several decades after WW II
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       | * LSD was manufactured and distributed widely in California and
       | around the world in several decades after WW II
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       | * jumping out of an airplane was known to adventure seekers,
       | available, and was associated with the extreme change in reality
       | perception.. LSD was known to adventure seekers, available and
       | associated with extreme change in reality perception
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       | Augmented Reality using digital electronics was always a target
       | of interest to researchers, artists, adventure seekers, musicians
       | and others engaging extreme change in reality perception. Many of
       | those people made incremental progress in hundreds of ways, to
       | discover, manufacture and distribute parts of technology chains
       | that we know commonly today. There are fewer "this is how it
       | happened" moments but overall, much larger impacts to tech
       | innovation IMHO. Perennial odd-man-out Jaron Lanier is a central
       | individual to some of this. See every issue of Mondo 2000 or
       | other niche 'zines of the past century. Strange bedfellows of
       | military and civilians since electronics advances are
       | commercialized and manufactured closely related to military-
       | industrial complex.
        
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