The word on the street just got easier to read

Paul Marks · The New Scientist · 2013

Jason Orlovsky and colleagues at Osaka University in Japan have developed a text display algorithm that places the current message on the darkest region in view at any given moment and in a readable color. This is done using the headset's camera, which plots a constantly changing heat map of viable on-screen reading locations. The algorithm can also split up a message into two small dark regions either side of one's field of view.

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