Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom?

Re:Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the... by buu700 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:04PM (#29141208)

Rather than contact lenses, how plausible would it be to project an image into someone's eyes from a distance?

As in you'd have an external VR unit that's as bulky as needed to handle face tracking, photonic override, etc. without any direct physical contact or uncomfortable accessories. Does that kind of tech sound further or closer than contact lenses, or would it be so different as to be hard to say?

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Re:Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the... by gfodor on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:09PM (#29141247)

Yeah I would put that into the same bucket as contact lenses: really hard to imagine tech in terms of execution, but probably possible from first principles. The invariant is basically if code is determining what photons you see, and if it has full governance or partial governance (ie, the real world has the ability to leak in or not.)

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Re:Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the... by ghaff on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:45PM (#29143356)

There was some pro type contact lens technology in a talk at Hot Chips but nowhere near prime time yet. Saw a thread. Forget if it was here or Twitter.

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