Wearable Heads Up Display

[red team]

http://www.liteye.com/Portals/0/500-open.jpg

Liteye see-though-HUD (http://www.liteye.com/Default.aspx?tabid=47)

[Dyst]

Ok that is maybe the most awesome thing I have ever seen but I have no clue what it is.

Care to elaborate?

[MrDoom]

I want one! :D

[Floyce White]

What's that for? Watching TV while driving? It's worse than those in-dash, five-inch monitors.

And you thought those LED-flashing, guitar-pick ear telephones were bad.

"Resistance is futile" for petty bourgeois with more money than sense.

[Red Menace]

It looks like one of those futuristic eye gear, that can be used on the battlefield, to identify enemy opponets easily.

[BreadBros]

I think its just a "heads up display" like the kind racecar drivers wear. It allows you to see vital info (like MPH, RPM, gas, etc in the case of the car) without having to look at an external display (like the dash on the car) in order to maximize efficiency or something. Im sure it can be applied to all sorts of things, pretty cool.


And you thought those LED-flashing, guitar-pick ear telephones were bad.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks those look ridiculously stupid.

[encephalon]

For any of you thaqt play shooter games, you should already know what a heads up display is. It shows vital information without interfering with your vision.

I think the initial response by many people hear reveals a lot about the general reactionary stance a lot of the so-called left has towards technology. The uses of a device that can display real-time information in your field of view, about your field of view are endless. With such a device, a diabetic can know their blood sugar instantaneously without lowering their eyes once. You can look at a building and instantly read a description of what is in it. You can look at someone's face and instantly know their name, or whatever else they want to reveal. It can be hooked into a digitally controlled gun and allow you do aim with your eyes. A deaf person can read whatever someone is saying to them in their field of vision.

Pretty much, this is just a computer screen overlayed on your field of view; so anything you can imagine a computer doing, this could do (within current technological limits, at least.. it likely isn't interactive with your immediate environment at this point). But the potential is very obviously there; for both benefit and oppression.

Sure, you might think it's ugly; most new technological developments offend our petty aesthetic sensibilities. Workers used to refuse wearing hard hats because they looked dumb, space suits look dumb, scuba gear looks dumb. Thankfully, however, that isn't what determines its use. Technology is about function, and if something like this provides a lot of function (and I suspect it will, though not at the moment).

Seriously, I'm genuinely surprised by the reaction of materialists concerning emergent technology.

[Dyst]

I agree with Encephalon!

I could definately see the people rising up using these badass eye thingies to hunt down the rich and filthy.

This sort of reminds me of... Arnold Schwarzenegger! "I'll be baock!"

[loveme4whoiam]

But I was under the impression that the GPS identifying technology necessary for this was still a good 20 years away? I read that because the HUD would have to identify lots of things that are, relatively speaking, very small, the sensitivity of the GPS system, which would be talking to the HUD unit and telling it what you were looking at, would have to be improved hugely over what we have now?

Still, a cool advance - and I'd also like to agree with encephalon, why should we scorn a technological advancement because its been developed by cappies? Hell, if we did that we would have a very difficult time liking ANYTHING in modern society.

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2006, 08:48 AM
Still, a cool advance - and I'd also like to agree with encephalon, why should we scorn a technological advancement because its been developed by cappies? Hell, if we did that we would have a very difficult time liking ANYTHING in modern society.
Maybe we should all go back to the happy time before all this useful technology.
Yay primitivism! :lol:

[Phugebrins]

Anyone else look at that and think "Brotherhood, Unity, Peace"?

[Dyst]

Haha, ah thats where I got it from.

Brotherhood of.. NOD? I can't remember, but it's red alert something right?

[adz170]

reminds me of those borg people from star trek.... , you communists will be assimilated!! , lol , joking :D , but yea it will just be some more technology which theyre isnt much point in producing except for the rich people who want 1 , like cars with 600 bhp WHY? , the highest speed limit in the uk is 70! lol .

[piet11111]

i was thinking about the movie predator with that badass alien with a shoulder cannon that he aimed by looking at stuff.

we could attach night vision stuff on our rifle's and link that to the HUD this way we could shoot around corners without the need for sticking our heads into the enemy's field of fire.
with a hud we could even match the american landwarrior program and get our hands on some serious combat advantages err well when the time comes ofcourse.
im getting a bit carried away by the posibility's

[The Bitter Hippy]

it's true that the HUD could have one of the greatest potentials to revolutionise the way we live our lives out of most current technological development projects.

Those of you who denounce it as a pettit-bourgeios gimick are being childish. It is not targetted at private individuals, as you would know if you looked at the site. It's about saving the lives of fire-men, increasing efficiency of workers and kill-potential of soldiers.

This product is part of a slew of human-augmentation devices that are being developed by various firms, which when combined will have staggering potential. References to science fiction are not too far off here: there are advances every few months on mind->comuter->limb controlled prostheses, advances in human chip implantation, concious control of a computer using the mind, ultra-lightweight processors, wireless communication between computers, and miniture data-storage devices.

Alone each of these projects are amusing or interesting little gadgets for various audiences, some are part of linked projects. But imagine the potential of a combination of all of these fields of technology: I'm not going to go off the conspiracy-nut deep end and rave about the danger of bionic bodies with a brain-in-a-jar controlling them (although that could probably be arranged at some point in the relatively near future) because people would never give up their bodies, but life will not be lived as we currently know it in future generations. Two hundred years ago the idea of instant talking, sending music or seeing each other was preposterous and nigh-on heretical, and technological development is only accelerating.


This piece of technology is a bit insignificant alone, but it is a further sign of a trend that is becoming more and more noticable in technology. The tehcnological concept and basis is the monitor of the far-distant future.

[piet11111]

because people would never give up their bodies

i would if i could !

anything that would enhance my physical capability's would be worth it.

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2006, 12:36 PM

because people would never give up their bodies

i would if i could !

anything that would enhance my physical capability's would be worth it.
I fully agree with that. But I'd have to be absolutley sure of the reliability of the new body.

[piet11111]

Originally posted by Jazzratt+Sep 25 2006, 07:23 PM--> (Jazzratt @ Sep 25 2006, 07:23 PM)
[email protected] 25 2006, 12:36 PM

because people would never give up their bodies

i would if i could !

anything that would enhance my physical capability's would be worth it.
I fully agree with that. But I'd have to be absolutley sure of the reliability of the new body. [/b]
well i was thinking more amongst the line of part man part machine.
cutting off anything below the waist (plus my arms and spine)is fine with me but i would be a lot more carefull when it comes to the brain.

it would sorta suck if i would be replaced by a copy instead of me actually getting transferred.
perhaps i would pick some sort of alternative solution of having my consciousness being backupped in the robotic body (every second or something assuming its possible)along with the biological brain.
and when the biological brain is clinically dead then having the backup being switched on
taking my robotic body over.

[Organic Revolution]

this really doesnt belong here.

[encephalon]

this really doesnt belong here.

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