"Useful Reality - Assistive wearable tech on a budget" - Christopher Biggs (LCA 2022 Online)

(Christopher Biggs) Artificial Reality is great, but there are two big roadblocks: Cost and Creepfactor. Can we do useful wearable tech involving cameras and head-mounted displays without overdosing on either of those?

This talk looks at a platform I've been building for my own needs - to view documentation and instrument readings while my hands are busy, and to read miniscule part numbers and other fine detail.

The platform consists of a single board computer from somewhere in the pi milieu (there are a number of suitable products), a budget head-mounted display from vufine, a gravity mouse (with bonus keyboard) and enough batteries, IO and sensors to function as a combination microscope and multimeter display.

If you don't have five thousand bucks for a top line immersive AR system, let's get as far as we can for $500.

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