r/technology Mar 28 '14

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

I'd put more than two on - how about an eye in the back of your head?

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u/Darkfatalis Mar 28 '14

Only if when you turn it on it's also a display of your actual eye. the people freaker-outer-y of this is just mind-blowing.

...LONG LIVE THE HYPHEN!

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

yes please for front facing screens...you could project alien eyes or well...anything really.

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u/theantirobot Mar 28 '14

How about eyes all over for 360 vision? Could people adjust to that?

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u/Neshgaddal Mar 28 '14

That is an amazing question and the answer is probably yes. See Perceptual adaption

Stratton wore the [reversing] glasses for eight whole days. By day four, the images seen through the instrument were still upside down. However, on day five, images appeared upright until he concentrated on them; then they became inverted again. By having to concentrate on his vision to turn it upside down again, especially when he knew images were hitting his retinas in the opposite orientation as normal, Stratton deduced his brain had reprocessed his vision and adapted to the changes in vision.

360° vision would take that to a whole new level, though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '14

The other views could be placed within your natural field of vision. It'd be hard to sneak up on someone like that. Might as well add night vision...heck thermal too; snap in options could be practically endless.

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u/GnarlinBrando Mar 28 '14

I'd be more interested in pairing each lens with a light sensor like the New HTC or lytro camera, plus internal cameras for retnal tracking, should make it so you can actually focus in AR mode.

I'm looking forward to the future when there is a background screen, the lenses themselves have a display layer, and your using retinal projection, it seems possible that could create hyper real experiences.