Re:Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
by Balgair on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:20AM
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I have some friends that were on the team trying to make a sonar system for divers. It would take the sonar info from a receiver on your forehead and them play that out onto an array placed on your tongue or some patch of skin. Applications were in murky water search and rescue, navy seal operations, underwater construction, etc. The major issue was the failure modes. When the device flips out, or is struck, or has a battery failure, or is misproduced, what happens? For these body interfacing electronic devices, the failure modes are typically brutal. Reliability engineering is something that can't be hacked or dismissed and they are a major reason that many AR devices can't make it to market.
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Re:Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
by abstractbeliefs on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:35AM
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I don't think that Google Glass strictly needs to be considered body-interfacing to the degree that it's failure presents real hazards to the person, but what it does allow us to trivially bring a screen with data into not just day to day lives, but literally everything.
I think right now lots of people are trying to boil the ocean and try to make AR truly part of our bodies, when really there's a huge amount of low hanging fruit in simply getting information to be ever-present and available.
Flicking your eyes up is a good first step. Later, overlaying the same information into our field of view. Later still, integration of that data into the body, rather than just presentation of it to the physical senses.