Re:Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look
by dagw on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @09:48AM
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but with a headset the screen is always in front of your eyes
Check out a Hololens if you ever get a chance. You can choose if the object you create is always in front of you or 'stuck' in a fixed point in (virtual) space. If I place a 'screen' on a wall it will stay exactly where I put it no matter how I move around.
Re:Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look
by Klathmon on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @09:32AM
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But don't screens only hurt our eyes because they are at a fixed focal point?
With a good AR headset, that focal point can be adjusted and moved around (possibly even in realtime if you want, move a screen to be "further away from you"). Not to mention that when you aren't looking at something that the headset is "generating", it's just basically a clear piece of plastic that you can see through. They are basically bad sunglasses.
You can look away from a "projected" screen just as easily as you can look away from a physical screen.
I don't think wearing headsets is a practical way to do everyday computing and it can even be bad for your eyes.
With a monitor you can look away, look out the window, etc. but with a headset the screen is always in front of your eyes, so you have to take the whole thing off if you want to give your eyes some rest from the screen.
It may be good for shorter special tasks like gaming, vr assisted surgery and such, but it doesn't seem a good match for programming, for example, which you do all day.