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My mistake, but I'm not assigning magical powers. I'm aware of what a holographic display is, and the rift fulfils 3 of the 4 criteria. The lack of accommodation in my experience is not critical and the applicability to lytro is still valid.

I believe[1] that the head tracking qualifies it as holographic. That light field stuff looks super interesting...

1. http://doc-ok.org/?p=337

> "Holographic Recording ... remains irrelevant to consumers until we have convenient holographic displays to match."

I'm not sure why Lytro hasn't touted this side of the technology... the first consumer holographic display (oculus rift) is due relatively soon.

I believe the dev kit contains 1x1080p display but renders a different view on each half of the screen.

Twitch, Steam, Xbox live, MMORPGs, Minecraft... what makes you think that gamers aren't social?

The issue is creating that binaural effect in simulations (games).

I think it's nearly inevitable that the immersiveness will lead to some useful stuff. We have a lot of biological circuitry that can take advantage of the extra bandwidth of VR. Already there's some niche applications[1] that show potential improvement on 2d solutions. Voice chat with avatars in a 3d space[2] looks like it could be useful for remote collaboration.

That said, I don't know what percentage of people will want to become fully immersed in a computer world. It can be disorientating when you put on the headset and the real world gets replaced by a computer generated one. I think the majority of the world probably won't jump on board until convincing augmented reality becomes possible. I kind of see VR as a building block for AR since they share a lot of the same problems.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGBRsV9omw

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stLYp8KnjvM&t=1m

You might be interested in the articles Carmack[1] and Michael Abrash[2] have written about VR.

[1] http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/02/22/latency-mitigation-...

[2] http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-n...

I don't know what kind of VR you have tried, but the experience of being "in" a rift is fundamentally different to watching a movie. The dev kit is extremely low res, has ghosting issues etc. Still it seems to have a visceral impact on most people who've tried it, much more than a 4k/96hz 3d movie. It feels like you're in another world, not like you're watching 3d graphics on a screen in front of your eyes.

The Leap itself isn't very practical with the rift/VR since it needs line of sight with your fingers and tilting your hand sideway causes a loss of detection of most of your fingers. You would need multiple sensors at different locations to overcome this which doesn't seem practical. I find wands (razer hydra) to be useful, like how a mouse is more accurate than touch. The multiple physical buttons and extra controls like analogue joysticks and triggers is a benefit too.

rockpapershotgun.com might be worth a look too.

Can you recommend any online resources for learning about Symbolic Logic?

Anecdotally... The way I perceive framerate is related to the resolution. Take a horizontal panning shot at 720p/60hz... a vertical line might move 2 or 3 pixels per frame. At 2560*1600/60hz the same line jumps 4 or 6 pixels per frame and starts to appear discontinuous in vision. High contrast makes it more obvious. Motion blur removes this in exchange for input lag, but high frame rate is a better solution.

Designers depend on programmers to take it from mockup to prototype. How can that be done if nobody knows about it?

You are saying that a mockup is basically nothing, that anyone can do it. If that's true, why do we need designers at all?

But if you have the contract for designing a new stadium, then it's actual work?

The Pi doesn't have a DisplayPort output, I imagine it would be significantly more complicated to convert from hdmi!

Press the windows key and type "calc". The mouse method isn't so intuitive - use the top/bottom right hot corner and click on search, it's there under windows accessories.

Where can one find out about "The art and what it does"? I had a quick look on wikipedia but didn't see anything.

There's an ios app called "Minecraft Reality" which uses camera tracking to put models into physical spaces. It's not seamless by any stretch (you manually download each model from a list of nearby placements before viewing) and it loses sync if the scene is changed too much, but it does a pretty good job of accurately placing the objects. I imagine that maybe taking advantage of 3d sensors like leapmotion could make it a lot more robust.

Carmack talks a bit about one optimization he used in the doom 3 demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk#t=1h51m45s

Maybe I'm naive but they don't sound too ridiculous to me... could you point out some specific fallacies?

  The glasses could have neuro-censors

That's a frightening typo!

I like the visual context too, some of the dock extensions did a fine job last time I played with it.

Fresh, unprocessed placebo effect, direct from the source... delicious :)

> Without studies, we don't actually know whether the skills in resisting distraction during meditation actually transfer to other situations.

From my own limited experience it does indeed generalise to all situations, the scientific evidence for that hypothesis is building (some links to studies can be found above). It does become self-evident if you meditate regularly for a while though. It shouldn't take long to at least get a feel for how it works if not a clear demonstration of the principle that the studies can only hint at.

You can be mindful of all of those things, but it's not necessarily the thing they start you off with with. Breath is easy to explain and locate... not everyone can isolate their heartbeat or eye movements easily.

It's pretty obvious from the video that you can leave stuff on the desk when you pull down the bed.

Assuming you keep track of this area, are there any other interesting projects out there?

My understanding is limited, but I thought that enlightenment was a buddhist term used to describe significant subjective perceptual changes which are more likely to occur with enough quality meditation practice. I was under the impression that there are thousands of people alive today, in various traditions like Zen, who claim to have experienced these changes in perception in various guises.

  a truly enlightened being can point out things in reality exactly as they are and can tell the law of how the world works.

Is this derived from a particular definition of enlightenment? I'm not really familiar with the buddhist religious texts etc.

You might be interested in "Enqueue", it's another player for mac.