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Real-Life Illness in a Virtual World (nytimes.com)
8 points by marak830 on Nov 6, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Its a few months old but i was wondering if anyone knew anything about this?

Viable? A threat to occulus rift? It certainly sounds interesting, but most "stories" like this do. (Comes off a little paid for).


The technology - shooting lasers into the eye to focus an image on the retina - has been around for a while.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3265255

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/research/vrd/

I think it's languishing in patent-encumbered hell at the moment. There used to be videos showing soldiers using it as a HUD-style visual aid.


Thanks for the links, an interesting read!


It would be a threat to Google Glass had the Google not bought them. I liked the projecting-in-the-retina part. Sounds very promising. Bad post title by the way.


Your right about the title, i should have just gone with the storys title and left it at that.




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