Comment by bserge | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bserge | Hacker News Reader

Since this thread has a lot of people interested in obscure/niche tech, would anyone comment on this idea:

A single eye VR/AR headset, think a Borg ocular implant, but smaller and nicer looking. With a high quality camera for see-through functionality. Used as a HUD for, well, anything. Reading web pages, Google Maps, Google Search and Assistant, notes, schedule, how to instructions, etc.

Definitely a very niche product (then again, so was Google Glass), but I would love to make one haha. Best thing is, anyone could build it using easily available components and software. https://github.com/relativty/Relativty was my inspiration, I see no reason why that wouldn't work in non-3D on a single display.

Anyone have any thoughts?

(Also, if you want to build it, hire me, I would work on this 12hrs/day for ramen money heh)

I think it's a cool idea, but "see-through functionality" isn't possible with today's hardware.

Eyes work in tandem, including focus. If you have a screen over one eye, there's no good way to have what's displaying on the screen cooperate with what the other eye is doing.

Similarly, I think VR is out: sending disparate signals to each eye would be murder on the inner ear. So that leaves a Google Glass-style AR overlay, which remains an ok idea, but is apparently pretty hard to get right.

It's not at all see-through, but the Vufine+ exists -- it's a single-eye HMD.

I've been vaguely interested in buying one for quite a while, although it's one of those purchases I haven't made (and probably won't) because I can't actually see any real use for it.

https://store.vufine.com/

I didn't know that existed, thanks!

You mean a saiyan scouter? https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Scouter

Always wanted one. So bad. I don't think our tech is there, we still can't accurately measure someone's power levels. But one day, our grandchildren will and it will be beautiful

Oh yeah, that's spot on!

May sound weird, but I had the same exact idea when I was a kid.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone dreams up some "cool" thing. I got a bit excited because this is something I could actually build myself. In fact, why wait, I'll start with some basic design.

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