Oculus Co-Founder's New Venture: Long-Range Virtual Reality Tracking System (roadtovr.com) 15
An anonymous reader writes: Jack McCauley was among Oculus' founding members and played a seminal role in the development of the Rift DK1 and DK2 VR headsets as the company's VP of Engineering. After departing from the VR firm sometime around the 2014 acquisition by Facebook, McCauley has continued his interest in VR, most recently demonstrating a laser tracking system that makes use of MEMS technology to actively track targets. He says the system's strengths are long range and low cost compared to camera-based tracking solutions, which Oculus currently uses.
Our cyborg overlords gonna lourve it ! (Score:1)
Laser tracking system that makes use of MEMS technology to actively track targets
Device like that in the wrong hands would devastated many innocent lives
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It's not like he paired that high power laser with a spinning mirror.....
Dammit KENT!
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Yep. Then all you need to do is get your enemies to wear tracking targets and you're set!
Honestly though, computer vision systems have such far-reaching potential benefits that I'm not overly concerned about the inevitable inclusion in killing machines as well.
How about something with a far more dubious risk/reward ratio, like behavioral psychology and its cozy relationship with marketing? How much real human benefit has that brought, compared to the costs of manipulating billions of people into buying thi