{"id":173,"date":"2001-04-26T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-27T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=173"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:39:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:39:45","slug":"killer-app-for-heads-up-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Killer app for heads-up displays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> There's a <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=01\/04\/26\/1554228\">thread running on Slashdot<\/a> regarding retinal scanning displays triggered by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/04\/26\/technology\/26HOWW.html\">New York Times article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I'd also like to see these coupled with video cameras and face recognition software. Then I could see people's names hovering over their heads. That would be the killer app for me!<\/p>\n<p>But Slashdot reader <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/users.pl?op=userinfo&amp;nick=rw2\">\"rw2\"<\/a> took the idea one step further in <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=01\/04\/26\/1554228&amp;cid=40\">this comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Combine this with stereoscopic imagers and eye tracking. Now the box can map in a virtual environment everything you are seeing in 3d. The next steps are obvious. My favorite is new 'skins' for the things (read, people) around you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's a thread running on Slashdot regarding retinal scanning displays triggered by a New York Times article. I'd also like to see these coupled with video cameras and face recognition software. Then I could see people's names hovering over their heads. That would be the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=173\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}