Ever wondered how come a T800 is able to view the world through his human eyes and his supercomputer brain at the same time?
Well it seems like technology is catching up fast to this desire of nerds so to say. A couple of years ago a device was prototyped which fooled the retina into ‘seeing‘ computer generated images through a wearable eye patch and some bulky hardware box. But recently a new device called eye tap has been pretty much perfected and tested. The eye normally functions as a camera only and not like a display device. What eye tap does is merge computer generated imagery along with real imagery to give the user a virtual terminator like visual experience of the real world. Imagine when looking at something all relevant data being displayed right next to it (yes T800 i am your boss). Eye tap does this by splitting the light reaching the retina, using mirrors, processing it to generate the modified the image and then diverting it back to retina. The diverted image could be the same as the original image or it could be modified, so that you get a virtual image superimposed on reality. For more details and information on how the device works go here.
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