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For that matter, what sensor can produce terabytes of data per second?


The CERN Large Hadron Collider sensors[0]

(not head-mounted!)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider


Thanks for the costume idea!


Nope, that's 25 petabytes per year - under 1 gigabyte per second.


It's not constantly producing data though.


A single 4K2K RGBD sensor at a high enough refresh could generate something in the 100Gbps range. The device has at least 2 (possibly 4?) forward facing sensors. It's presumably also doing inward facing gaze tracking, audio and IMU.

As a point of reference the Leap Motion Dragonfly has 2 x 3K sensors w/ 225fps color and 720fps tracking.

Presumably the "HPU" is an ASIC that bakes in some sort of SLAM/positional tracking, skeletal tracking, and gaze tracking.




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