[Noisebridge-discuss] How long will it take to have realpersonalHUDs?

[Lee Sonko]

>> It has to be useful. The possible applications I've seen for this  
> That part, I think, is the easiest. If the platform is 
> available, I'd expect a killer app within 6 months.

I'm not sure it's totally easy. Maybe I'm not seeing the forest for the
trees here but there there's still a couple hurddles here: 

With this HUD display, the first thing I want to do is overlay virtual space
with real space. But having the device know exactly where it is and exactly
what it's looking at and showing that in a non-jittery, non-headache
inducing manner up against my eye ball is tricky.

For the system to track objects, it (probably) needs to have a reasonable
map of the world in front of it and that is still a hard nut to crack for a
generalized problem. 

Then again, maybe a non-tracking display still offers lots of room for
killer apps.


Not apropos of the current question but...
I've tried having variable transparency windows on my computer desktop and
I've never been able to get used to them. Maybe people can't ever get used
to it. So the HUD must block out a portion of our vision to keep us wearers
headache free.





> -----Original Message-----
> From: noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net 
> [mailto:noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] On 
> Behalf Of Sai Emrys
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:05 PM
> To: Lee Sonko
> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] How long will it take to 
> have realpersonalHUDs?
> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:
> > Since I'm a betting man, parts that I'd put into the bet include:
> 
> I'd agree with all your conditions. They're definitely in 
> line with what I intended.
> 
> > It has to be useful. The possible applications I've seen for this 
> > stuff are astounding (and get me excited every time I see 
> them). But 
> > there have to be at least a few compelling applications 
> that actually 
> > run on this worn device.
> 
> That part, I think, is the easiest. If the platform is 
> available, I'd expect a killer app within 6 months.
> 
> > So, what's the wager? Is betting money too droll?
> 
> Heh, I'm a cheap bastard. But I'd be willing to bet my 
> services for the same (I'm a pro Rails coder, massage 
> therapist, & occasional linguist / translator).
> 
> But who knows what our situations will be in that much time 
> from now...
> 
> - Sai
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