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[Reelya]

This is better:

http://www.gizmag.com/avegant-glyph/30233/

Basically why paint in the air or have little screens when you can paint colors directly onto the subject's retina? The retina is the ultimate screen, pixel resolution doesn't get any better than that.

To avoid nausea though you need to ensure the depth information etc is perfectly aligned with both eyes of the user (something the "3D in the air" thing compensates for, but can only ever do 1 color unless they mix gasses and can get different laser frequency to light up each gas). If the information from each eye is sufficiently correlated, there should be no nausea - it's just normal light going onto the retina and your eyes shouldn't tell the difference if it's aligned properly. This would entail scanning the eye, measuring the lens focus points of each eye and adjusting the retina display to match. Current VR systems don't attempt to do that.

[Helgoland]

Impractical for groups - you'd need a separate device for everyone. This makes it impossible to use in public spaces or in cinemas, but home usage would be hampered too.

Edit: Just saw that it's a headset - why's that so awesome? Little screens work as well.

[Lagslayer]

It still seems like a neat milestone to me, if not necessarily a huge one.

[Frumple]

Basically why paint in the air or have little screens when you can paint colors directly onto the subject's retina? The retina is the ultimate screen, pixel resolution doesn't get any better than that.

N...nooo, I think we can actually get better resolution than that. Eyeball is machine, we can (conceptually, if not currently) make something more fine.

It's just. It wouldn't do us much good, personally. Which I guess if you mean better by that metric sure but.

[Helgoland]

I still hope for Matrix-style implants by the time I'm old and wrinkly.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

My issue is, can my Computer eyeball work solo, or do I need the whole other apparatus to plug my eye into? I guess I wouldn't mind streaming my desktop to my eyeball[s?] if it worked seamlessly and didn't kill me. Seems like a pain to install, I'll stick with my surgically implanted color differentiators. Or color to sound converter.. uh whatever that is. Eye technology is weird.

[Jervill]

I was going to make a remark about how Tony Hawk hasn't been relevant since the Dreamcast was a viable console....

But, Hoverboards are too awesome.  Truly, Back to the Future was completely right in every way and form.

[Sirus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSheVhmcYLA&feature=youtu.be

Hoverboard. Science is real. Fiction exists. Tony Hawk enjoys it.

I dunno. After that last hoverboard reveal video (which was fake, though some apparently thought it was real), I'm suspicious of this one. It does seem to be more realistic though.

[Putnam]

Maglev trains work using a couple of different systems,” Greg explained. “In China, for instance, they use something called electrodynamic suspension (EDS). And EDS is very expensive, inherently unstable, and it can’t hover. There’s no way to move in all directions—it can only go on a track, and it needs to be tightly measured through electromagnets and sensor technologies. We have figured out a more efficient way of transmitting electromagnetic energy, and we’re able to do this without a track, or supercooling, or superconductors

And they're using it on hoverboards? Bullshit.

[Descan]

There was a throw-away line about "Using hoverboards to showcase the technology and what it can do" so maybe it's less "We have this super cool thing, let's build a hoverboard!" and more "We have this super-cool technology, let's build a hoverboard so people know it exists for other applications, since everyone wants a hoverboard."

If it's real, of course. :v

[Gentlefish]

Yeah that kickstarter is real as hell. I'm looking forward to sheetmetal embedded in our roads for ultralight hovercars to zip around on. I wonder how efficient it actually is.

[Knit tie]

Yeah that kickstarter is real as hell. I'm looking forward to sheetmetal embedded in our roads for ultralight hovercars to zip around on. I wonder how efficient it actually is.

At the current level of technology, my guess is "not even remotely".

[Osmosis Jones]

Personally, I'm turned off by the complete lack of control you have. Watch the guys in the hoverboard in their vid... they have absolutely zero control unless they're touching the ground with their hands. Likewise if you were in a car, you'd be sliding all over the place.

This is old tech repurposed for a gimmick. There are applications for it for moving cargo/buildings like they suggest elsewhere, but it's pretty useless in any sort of vehicle that isn't on rails.

[Sergarr]

Maglev trains work using a couple of different systems,” Greg explained. “In China, for instance, they use something called electrodynamic suspension (EDS). And EDS is very expensive, inherently unstable, and it can’t hover. There’s no way to move in all directions—it can only go on a track, and it needs to be tightly measured through electromagnets and sensor technologies. We have figured out a more efficient way of transmitting electromagnetic energy, and we’re able to do this without a track, or supercooling, or superconductors

And they're using it on hoverboards? Bullshit.

They really should repurpose that tech for wireless electricity chargers.

That will either bring them millions, or cost them millions due to Apple suing them to hell.

[Putnam]

Screw humans, I'd imagine that computers specifically designed to work with a thing that controls such as they claim their thing to might be able to control them.