red0x t1_j61n5rg wrote on January 27, 2023 at 1:52 AM Reply to HoloLens AR actually makes soldiers less lethal, soldiers hate it | Report comes after Microsoft lays off various VR/AR employees by BlueLightStruct I’m really surprised that literally none of the top comments are highlighting anything related to reaction time. Any “real-time” system still has some latency, and anything that adds any latency to a soldiers visual system is a measurable disadvantage. The advantage the AR provides would have to compensate for that lag and then some (by a wide margin) to make this make any sort of sense. This feels like it was doomed from the start. Permalink 3
red0x t1_j61n5rg wrote
Reply to HoloLens AR actually makes soldiers less lethal, soldiers hate it | Report comes after Microsoft lays off various VR/AR employees by BlueLightStruct
I’m really surprised that literally none of the top comments are highlighting anything related to reaction time.
Any “real-time” system still has some latency, and anything that adds any latency to a soldiers visual system is a measurable disadvantage.
The advantage the AR provides would have to compensate for that lag and then some (by a wide margin) to make this make any sort of sense.
This feels like it was doomed from the start.