What They Say
RoadtoVR reported a talk by Meta Reality Labs’ Chief Scientist Michael Abrash where he said that to get to the kind of technology that tech companies envision is going to take a “range of radical improvements—and in some cases paradigm shifts—in both hardware […] and software,”. The firm has an idea that the level of power consumption has to be drastically reduced to meet battery life and heat requirements, perhaps by a factor of 100 or even 1,000.
He shared a chart below showing that the most energy intensive computing operations are in data transfer. And that doesn’t mean just wireless data transfer, but even transferring data from one chip inside the device to another. That means that in the future you need to distribute the computing to where the data is. The article also looks at what needs to be done to improve the cameras for AR glasses, with sensors capturing a much higher dynamic range.
What We Think
A friend of mine made a bet with me about when we would all be walking around wearing AR glasses, with the promise of a dinner if he was wrong. He was, and I know I wrote it down somewhere, but I can’t find it anywhere, which is a real shame! (BR)
