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A leap toward lighter, sleeker mixed reality displays (news.stanford.edu)
submitted 1 week ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“Researchers in the field sometimes describe our goal as to pass the ‘Visual Turing Test,’” said Suyeon Choi [...] “A visual Turing Test then means, ideally, one cannot distinguish between a physical, real thing as seen through the glasses and a digitally created image being projected on the display surface,” Choi said.

So they just came up with a needlessly opaque synonym of “verisimilitude”.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, one of those is much, much easier to remember. Honestly I don’t even know how to pronounce verisimilitude.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly I don’t even know how to pronounce verisimilitude.

It's 'verisimilitude'.