Interesting Links for 20-04-2016

[andrewducker]

Our Augmented Reality future looks, frankly, amazing (tags: augmentedreality VirtualReality Technology computers thefuture ) Cognitive function declines slightly at 25-hours per week, more at 35 hours, and signicantly at 40 hours Cognitive functioning improves up to the point at which workers work 25 hours a week and declines thereafter...at

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[gonzo21]

Is there technology anywhere along the line that will allow VR experiences without having to wear goggles or glasses?

[andrewducker]

Well, eventually this technology will be small enough that it can be placed into a cybernetic eye:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33571412

Or we could run a cord directly into your optic nerve.

[octopoid_horror]

The only thing that interested me about google glass was that it could be used with a normal pair of prescription glasses. As someone who wears glasses and does not really want to wear contacts/splash out on laser eye surgery, an extra visor or whatever for AR/MR/SR or whatever you want to call it seems like being even more uncomfortable.

Though given the likely price tag of the gear, my assumption is that the people who will use it for the next few years will either be using it because their company has splashed out, or if they paid for it themselves then they can also afford laser eye surgery should they also wear glasses :-)

For personal VR/AR without glasses I'd imagine you're out of luck until we get holograms.

[andrewducker]

I've worn an Oculus Rift with glasses on and it worked just fine.

Can be a bit tight, but so long as you don't have very large glasses it should be ok. (Although after half an hour it got a bit foggy in there the last time I tried them, and I had to lift it off for 10 seconds.)

[mlknchz]

I haven't said so here, but as an American, I'd like to publicly apologize for Donald Trump. Sorry

[andrewducker]

As a Brit, I totally don't hold anyone responsible for the idiocy of their fellow citizens.

[cmcmck]

Just messaged you on LJ mail!

[andrewducker]

I just replied!

[cmcmck]

Many thanks.

It helps a lot! :o)

[snarlish]

As a former film projectionist, that photo essay brought a little tear to my eye.

[heron61]

The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder.

Huh, so the dark enlightenment nutjobs & the racist/misogynist nutjobs are working together - that's fascinating. I don't see them as a remotely credible political threat, and given the way the US is headed, they're likely to be increasingly excluded, but I sadly do see the possibility of this group radicalizing to the extent of violence (which at least on the misogynist side has already happened to a small extent with some of the recent mass shooters).

[andrewducker]

Well, they're part of the Trump effect. But I'm reasonably confident that Trump's not getting elected.

[heron61]

We may see the angry white working class bigot demographic come to dominate the Republican party, but that's a recipe for the Republican party becoming an increasingly small and marginalized party, like happened in much of the 1930s, I'd expect that to last no more than a decade (if that long) before very wealthy people kicked the more obvious bigots out. The dark enlightenment people are simply cranks of the sort who never manage to get political power