It's amazing to me to see how many christians truly believe that god working like a magaician is somehow more interesting, beautiful, or more godly than a god working with evolution.
To be more clear, god working within evoulution is far more convincing, beautiful, and thought provoking than a cop out of creationist rheotirc.
This sounds great for an average blind-person who wants to have some vision back. Currently though, its far to expensive and doesnt provide high enough resolution, despite the brain 're-learning to see'.
But after thats worked out, theres still some major problems with it; It looks so un-natural, it (all computer componets) is clearly sizable, and having it implanted can be dangerous.
I love the prospect of Augmented Reality in our lifetime and ponder how it and other key technologies will work out in out daily lives daily. I'm convinced the near-term future of AR usefulness approaches or even exceeds the promises of nano or bio-tech. The problem, size matters. attractive-ness of the tech matters. and how it gets implemented matters.
That said, AR wont catch on if you have to where funky gear such as Steve Mann does. In-fact, any external gear is unacceptable for it to really catch on. (There are some exceptions, but is why PDA's havent caught on in a main-stream way)
This is exactly what makes this sort of thing so interesting. Except of course, the artificial eyes part. From the pictures and explantion of who this thing looks, its completly unacceptable.
Long story short, there needs to be a way to retro-fit someone's natural eye with artificial eye gear. Or at the very least one that looks natural. It needs to be far smaller and with further computer advances; everything needed needs to be retro-fitted to fit in said eye.
And yet still, theres a problem of getting many people to under-go the surgery required. Besides the blind and some nerds like ourselves. The number of people willing to do something like this is probably very low.
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It's amazing to me to see how many christians truly believe that god working like a magaician is somehow more interesting, beautiful, or more godly than a god working with evolution. To be more clear, god working within evoulution is far more convincing, beautiful, and thought provoking than a cop out of creationist rheotirc.
This sounds great for an average blind-person who wants to have some vision back. Currently though, its far to expensive and doesnt provide high enough resolution, despite the brain 're-learning to see'.
But after thats worked out, theres still some major problems with it; It looks so un-natural, it (all computer componets) is clearly sizable, and having it implanted can be dangerous.
I love the prospect of Augmented Reality in our lifetime and ponder how it and other key technologies will work out in out daily lives daily. I'm convinced the near-term future of AR usefulness approaches or even exceeds the promises of nano or bio-tech. The problem, size matters. attractive-ness of the tech matters. and how it gets implemented matters.
That said, AR wont catch on if you have to where funky gear such as Steve Mann does. In-fact, any external gear is unacceptable for it to really catch on. (There are some exceptions, but is why PDA's havent caught on in a main-stream way)
This is exactly what makes this sort of thing so interesting. Except of course, the artificial eyes part. From the pictures and explantion of who this thing looks, its completly unacceptable.
Long story short, there needs to be a way to retro-fit someone's natural eye with artificial eye gear. Or at the very least one that looks natural. It needs to be far smaller and with further computer advances; everything needed needs to be retro-fitted to fit in said eye.
And yet still, theres a problem of getting many people to under-go the surgery required. Besides the blind and some nerds like ourselves. The number of people willing to do something like this is probably very low.