Brendan Iribe Quotes

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

Animals see a video of the world. If an animal were only to see still images, how would its vision develop? Neuroscientists have run experiments in cats in a dark environment with a strobe so it can only see still images - and those cats' visual systems actually underdevelop. So motion is important, but what is the algorithm?

My eyes are fine.

I can't think without my glasses.

I see better today than I did three or five years ago.

Red is uplifting.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

My eyes have been sensitive to light since the fifth grade. Without glasses I can't see the next hurdle.

A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.

Oculus version three or five or whatever it ends up being is something that can be used unplugged - we'd have our own Android stuff and all that - but you could plug it into the PC and use that.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

The one thing in the world that I can't do without is my glasses. I don't really care about my laptop, I never answer my phone, and I don't care about trainers and stuff. But I'm pretty blind without my glasses or contact lenses.