Post by Noah on Sept 13, 2024 3:15:10 GMT
Okay so there is actually a device that was created by Rony Abovitz in his garage, when he started Magic Leap.
I remember that one time I heard a rumor about the refrigerator-sized device in question.
I heard that it could do things that were thought impossible.
Rony's reply to me was, "That is true.".
This alone blows my mind and makes me wonder what else is possible.
Here's a photo of the interaction/exchange.
The device looks like this:
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and produces imagery that looks so real that your eyes can't perceive the difference between the digital and the analog.
It becomes impossible to distinguish what's real and what isn't.
It can look like this:
I actually don't know if this image of a shark floating in the room is actually from The Beast or not.
But it looks like it probably is.
It has many names, one of which is "The Beast".
From u/Yeraze on Reddit (Randall Hand, a former Chief Executive and a Co-Founder)
"I probably shouldn't get into technical details of how it did what it did..
But basically it was a table-mounted binocular rig (two eyes), that generated more than just a stereo pair of images.
Imagine the ML1's two focal planes, but instead this has multiple focal planes that could be moved in depth frame-to-frame in response to content.
The end result was the most realistic virtual content I've ever seen, and with the number of depth planes and how they moved at 60fps,
you could optically focus anywhere in the frame you wanted and everything behaved how you would expect reality to."
"The main limiting factor was the varifocal element. The Beast used a special varifocal mirror that we could refocus super-fast,
allowing us to vibrate it through the 6 discrete positions at 120h![]()
z, so 720 locations per second. but it was expensive and fragile...
Fragile like, we were told by the manufacturer "You should be fine, just don't let a fly land on it or it will shatter"."
Aside from that, it was just projectors and masks, all easily accomplished in multiple technologies.
From u/Yeraze on Reddit (Randall Hand, a former Chief Executive and a Co-Founder)
"I probably shouldn't get into technical details of how it did what it did..
But basically it was a table-mounted binocular rig (two eyes), that generated more than just a stereo pair of images.
Imagine the ML1's two focal planes, but instead this has multiple focal planes that could be moved in depth frame-to-frame in response to content.
The end result was the most realistic virtual content I've ever seen, and with the number of depth planes and how they moved at 60fps,
you could optically focus anywhere in the frame you wanted and everything behaved how you would expect reality to."
"The main limiting factor was the varifocal element. The Beast used a special varifocal mirror that we could refocus super-fast,
allowing us to vibrate it through the 6 discrete positions at 120h
Fragile like, we were told by the manufacturer "You should be fine, just don't let a fly land on it or it will shatter"."
Aside from that, it was just projectors and masks, all easily accomplished in multiple technologies.
I remember that one time I heard a rumor about the refrigerator-sized device in question.
I heard that it could do things that were thought impossible.
Rony's reply to me was, "That is true.".
This alone blows my mind and makes me wonder what else is possible.
Here's a photo of the interaction/exchange.
The device looks like this:
and produces imagery that looks so real that your eyes can't perceive the difference between the digital and the analog.
It becomes impossible to distinguish what's real and what isn't.
It can look like this:
I actually don't know if this image of a shark floating in the room is actually from The Beast or not.
But it looks like it probably is.
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