Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft
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Maybe… I want to read the proposal honestly
Are these things you thought of or based on something else?
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I don't know about military, but there was a number of successful applications of hololens in the industrial environment. It never went anywhere where I saw it, because the device was too expensive, too experimental, and it was impossible to purchase, but the ideas were ok.
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That's Research and Development for you.
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When you have a lot of money, you might try that and even succeed part of the time.
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It's the type of problems that can be potentially solved using AR
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That fashion started, if anyone remembers, with Google Glass. And those for me appear very nice.
But if most people won't read text on transparent background (even transparent terminal emulator windows), then trying to process information with real world in the background is harder.
Successful applications and OK ideas can sometimes be false positives, because it's, #1, safe to approve of something that won't be implemented anyway, #2, the initiative to try something often comes from superiors who only want to hear disapproval or approval of specific things about the initiative, and about the initiative itself only approval, #3, I like some things for short periods, but I wouldn't ever be able to use something like Hearthstone's UI at work.
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I might be fearing something unrealistic, but hope this at least doesn't depend on network connectivity at all times.
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How long until we have Cyberpunk 2077 style quick hacks that can make enemy soldiers just shoot themselves?
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I just don't like something intended for war being called Anduril. They've missed JRRT's point completely.
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Or you use one GreenPak device and OTP it based on the model and have it cheaper and more reliable, any supporting circuits like drivers, FETs, bulk capacitance, etc.. Would have to be designed per-model anyway on MCU based design.
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There is also a company called palantir which is pretty much a cyberpunk corporate distopia surveillance company.
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That broken thing nobody remembered, until it was reforged.
I can name a few other such things, but at this point in my existence I'm just afraid to do so. Murphy's laws and such.
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Because he is an evil bastard. There is a behind the bastards episode about him.
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I love it,keep up the good work Scotty!
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Well, that would at least somewhat resonate with what a palantir is.
With the wrong part, the kind that Denethor thought he could use and that Sauron and Saruman used, and I really like more the implication of that from Frodo's dream where he stands at one of the towers in the north looking far away.
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There is a wast difference between Google glasses and hololens.
The industrial application that I was using it worked as a concept, and I mean worked in reality, not what you are talking about. I used it, and it did saved me time and labour, even in that preliminary stage. I don't know would it work on a larger scale, but that three devices that the whole factory floor had access to were in use the whole time, and in a conservative industry it's saying something. -
Cheaper components and manufacture to use a dedicated microcontroller to run PWM to dim the LEDs than something like a 555 and transistors to change its logic/capacitor path to vary brightness.
They even may use the same micro for charging lipo batteries, not sure since there are dirt cheap chips for that too.
The fact that people have bothered to modify such basic firmware is pretty funny though.
