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A Look at Vaunt, Intel's Smart Glasses That Use Retinal Projection To Put a Display in Your Eyeball (theverge.com)
Chipmaker Intel is eyeing the smart glasses market, too. The Verge was invited to the company's lab where it got to play with Vaunt, a prototype of the company's smart glasses. The Vaunt looks very much like a normal pair of glasses, and uses retinal projection to put a display in your eyeball. The Verge: The most important parts of Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses are the pieces that were left out. There is no camera to creep people out, no button to push, no gesture area to swipe, no glowing LCD screen, no weird arm floating in front of the lens, no speaker, and no microphone (for now). From the outside, the Vaunt glasses look just like eyeglasses. When you're wearing them, you see a stream of information on what looks like a screen -- but it's actually being projected onto your retina.
Great, now I can get text messages sent directly to my eye! Seems fairly useless for anything more sophisticated than that, though.
Just junk food for thought...
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intel I don't want them to read my mind!
They can tell where your vision is directed and automatically bring up search engine results using advanced machine learning. The only problem is this predictive execution can occur across protection domains, which means its vulnerable to Meltdown attacks that would allow someone to read your inner thoughts every time you stare at a cup of coffee.
Sounds more like a toy than something revolutionary at this point; but, I can easily see it evolving into something better. I will let overs pay the exorbitant early adopter fees and pick one up when it's only $50 more than a regular pair of glasses.
I'd also like to see the long term safety impact of wearing the glasses before being an adopter. So- I'm not getting them in the next 20 years. After that, maybe... but in 20 years we might be ready for something completely different entirely.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
This is a good idea. There is no reason you should be wary about projecting a stream of light on your retina. Just remember to run a screensaver, otherwise you will have the "Intel Inside" logo forever burned into your vision.
obligatory DON'T LOOK at LASER with REMAINING EYE Sturgeon General's warning.
Just remember to run a screensaver, otherwise you will have the "Intel Inside" logo forever burned into your vision.
I think there probably would be some idiots in Inte's marketing department that would regard that as a feature instead of a bug...
If I am a mechanic working on an engine I would rather see the manual projected directly on my eye than having to take a break to walk away to refer to a manual sitting on a desk. Every minute I am not actively working on the engine means lost revenue. And if revenue is lost, the executives might have to settle with a smaller yacht then they deserve. We should aim for 100% productivity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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I assume that with the addition of a (very) low powered green and blue laser that it would be possible to have full color images displayed. Also, I assume that, on command perhaps, the images could show up on a larger more prominent portion of the "display" (like directly ahead). Presumably the default "minimized" mode could be achieved by keeping most of the image "black" most of the time.
That with ultra-miniaturized cameras and 3D sensors built into the frame of the glasses, should enable when desired, a full-on "augmented reality" experience and would become the dominant user interface (until electronic contact lenses become practical. Then, after that, a direct neural link?)
You get #metoo tweets displayed to you every time you look at something you shouldn't ...
... to screw this tech up somehow.
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Have you ever done a video chat and been a bit distracted by the participate never look at you? Rather, they are looking at their screen. It's just a bit strange and unnatural. It's like talking with someone who is looking at their coffee mug instead of you.
They need to make a display that has a video camera in the middle of it. Better yet, some sort of arrangement where the display figures out where the eyeballs of the participants are and makes that the focal point of the camera looking back. THEN video chats will seem natural
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Glasses+gaze detection+deepfake = X-Ray Specs
Childhood dreams: realised!
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Didn't IBM abandon their tech that projected stuff onto your eyeballs back in the 90s because it ended up damaging your eyes?
Yes, a perfectly valid use case — for any "blue collar" worker, whose hands may legitimately be dirty during work. Whoever he works for.
And then your inner Che Guevara tilted your hand and you went on an anti-Capitalism rant.
And a completely misguided rant it is, because auto-repair shops in the US are overwhelmingly privately owned. With the exception of a few franchises (like Midas or Meineke) — and even those are usually owned by the franchisee — there is no CEO to speak of.
I don't see, where the "27/7" comes from, but we certainly should aim for being as productive as possible while we are working. If a simple electronic gizmo can help it — marvelous.
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So, basically, a really crude version of Virtual Light glasses? Interesting.
Microsoft used to be alone in throwing good money after bad.
Really? You don't remember the .com bubble and the subsequent collapse of thousands of idiotic startups which never had a chance of being profitable despite VCs throwing good money at them? Or do you think Microsoft somehow was behind the funding of all those things?
I was somewhat surprised to see that the interface will be JS. I guess it will do the job, but it doesn't seem like a solution that will scale well when the technology goes forwards and more sophisticated graphics capabilities are required.
I have nothing against JavaScript except that it seems to be the default for intelligent operations without any regard to its capabilities, limitations and weirdness.
Could it be because an Android or iOS SDK would exclude Windows, making things awkward for Intel's relationship with Microsoft?
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I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Is the Mom Corp "Eye Phone" the first thing that comes to anyone else's minds or is it just me.
CGA in 160×100, 16 color mode.
Most awesome trick ever. Too bad it wasn't used more often, because the palettes available in 320x200 really sucked.
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Looks interesting, but I'm not sure I'd be able to see the red very well, being among the 8% of men who have red-green colorblindness. One hopes they are considering that, but I didn't see it addressed in the article.
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I'm incredibly sensitive to light. The light that the optometrist uses to view the retina causes me searing pain. Damned if I'll let some tech company shine a friggin' laser in there. Short - I don't trust them.
This is pretty damn cool technology that will probably be mainstream in 5 years or less. Leave it to slashdot commenters to completely miss the big picture and pick apart some stupid technical detail.
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The glasses, dey do nothing...
Icons arranged on the edge of the display. Since it's eye-tracking, it can tell if you, say, look twice ("double click") on an icon for page-up or page-down.