[HN Gopher] Shrinking augmented reality displays into eyeglasses...
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Shrinking augmented reality displays into eyeglasses to expand
their use
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 64 points
Date : 2024-10-06 21:31 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (phys.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
| jaybrendansmith wrote:
| <old>I would really like this, if only to be able to read things
| close up like I used to be able to do. </old>
| crooked-v wrote:
| VR and AR stuff usually has a focal distance of 4-6 feet
| forward of the actual lenses, for what it's worth.
| wanderingstan wrote:
| I worked for a time in an AR research lab and there are teams
| making good progress on adjustable focal lengths. The demo I
| saw three years ago was impressive.
| raffraffraff wrote:
| I'm not longsighted but my myopia has really progressed in my
| 40s. The Viture XR Pro has myopia dials which means that I can
| dial both to suit, but unfortunately the whole setup is awful
| for productivity, especially on Linux. Their android app is
| also just a "toy". And I definitely can't imagine using them
| for AR. Maybe their competitors, XREAL (which claim 6dof) are
| better here, but they don't have the myopia dials.
| smusamashah wrote:
| "400 Bad Request Your request has been blocked by our server's
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| Is this link correct?
| prmoustache wrote:
| I could open it.
| bbor wrote:
| I mean, this is awesome, obviously, but the framing is odd --
| this is very, very far from the SOTA, no? 30deg FoV and ~30%
| image degradation with monochromatic images seems way less
| capable than the Orion Glasses. But I'm sure that's just journal
| editors / academia goofballs trying to make money, and the
| scientists themselves know what they're contributing. Love to see
| it! Cannot wait for glasses to become real so I can buy them and
| complain about how I never use them, like my smart watch that can
| talk to me.
| psunavy03 wrote:
| The entire point of the article was to illustrate the
| capabilities of a less-bulky system than Orion. That IS the
| state of the art for a glasses form factor, not cartoon glasses
| like Orion.
| tambourine_man wrote:
| I'd be happy with a light, monochromatic, text-only AR glassess
| ericskiff wrote:
| 100% Being able to write, code, and read from a large virtual
| terminal without a clunky visor on would be amazing.
| youainti wrote:
| I agree wholeheartedly. Maybe we would get a comeback for
| text-oriented websites too.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Wouldn't that be sort of like what the Terminator sees?
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| https://i.ytimg.com/vi/--jogapJmjI/hqdefault.jpg
| JSteph22 wrote:
| You should try the Vuzix Blade then.
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| https://www.vuzix.com/products/vuzix-blade-2-smart-glasses
| gpm wrote:
| > 480x853 resolution
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| I doubt that's enough resolution for comfortable text editing
| like I believe the person you are replying to is envisioning.
| msk-lywenn wrote:
| Back when I was working on hololens 1 stuff, I was very
| surprised how the bad resolution wasn't actually much of an
| issue. I think since we're always slightly moving, our
| brain makes some kind of natural temporal antialiasing ?
| And it's not awful like VR since it's super imposed on the
| real world and not a feed of it
| ozten wrote:
| Pixels per degree would be diluted or concentraded based on
| the filed of view. So you could have that resolution be a
| super crisp, but small region.
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