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thanks - very interesting - but also disappointing that it's fake

alright, what about nocturnal animals with huge sensitive eyes ? or why not evolve searchlights or even lasers ?

yes i guess the evolution of our vision was driven in part by hunting (being able to resolve animals at a distance) and gathering (being able to discern colours of berries)

true, but consider other sighted animals but which have a different dominant sense: dogs (smell), moles (touch), platypus (electric-fields)

even sight-dominant animals may have radically different vision to ours. Cats for example are more sensitive to motion than to static resolution

How we obtain our data about the world is a huge influence over how we conceive of it. I wonder how different programming would be were we to do it entirely by touch

I remember when this was first announced a few years ago - great to see its progress. It's amazing that visual display tech has advanced so far in 100 years that one can't see the pixels, yet haptic display tech is so primitive that the best displays are only capable of dozens of pixels. It goes to show that motivation and money are what drive tech innovation, not fundamental physical constraints.