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0 pointsblhack13y ago0 comments

of course that could be used outside of a lab. look at things like world lens.

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npsimons13y ago· 2 in thread

1) Your original post I responded to was talking about oculus rift; while it may be possible to use the oculus rift outdoors or untethered, it's definitely not currently being developed for that use case.

2) FWIW, world lens is described as augmented reality. Also, it has a much narrower FOV, probably doesn't update in real-time (and probably doesn't need to), doesn't require wearing a bulky headset, doesn't occlude your entire FOV, and in any case, is not connected to an oculus rift.

blhackOP13y ago

World lens does update in [practically] real time.

And bringing it up was to address your claim that it was computationally infeasible to retransmit video with some of the content changed.

npsimons13y ago

World lens does update in [practically] real time.

And "practically real time" isn't going to cut it for something which occludes your view, that was why I brought that, and my other points up. I didn't claim it was infeasible; I claimed it was currently infeasible to do it for the entire FOV of a human, and with that being true, it was impractical to assume that VR and AR can currently be applied to the same problems. In the future, the distinction between AR and VR may not need to be made, but before that can happen, VR (as it currently is) has a long way to go.

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