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bryant ◴[] No.42185902[source]
Neat. I'll probably use it for five minutes, appreciate the math that went into it, and move on. But nevertheless, pretty neat.

I say that because there's an idea to play with for a v1.1 that would give it staying power for me:

Do you have enough processing power on an iPhone to combine this with Augmented Reality? That is to say: can you explore "pinning" a singularity in a fixed region of space so I can essentially walk around it using the phone?

Assuming that's possible, you could continue evolving this into a very modest revenue generating app (like 2 bucks per year, see where it goes?) by allowing for people to pin singularities, neutron stars, etc. around their world and selectively sharing those with others who pass by. I'd have fun seeing someone else's pinned singularity next to the Washington monument, for instance. Or generally being able to play with gravity effects on light via AR.

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1. jerf ◴[] No.42187624[source]
You need a full 3D scan of the environment of everything the black hole can "see" from the position you want to put it in, not just the traditional "augmented reality" that sits on top of a current camera feed, because black holes are also essentially 360 degree cameras that from some angle will let you see anything around them. Not impossible, but harder than "just" taking an augmented reality feed.
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2. grahamj ◴[] No.42188556[source]
It could be done in VR instead, where the entire environment is available.