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Realtime ASCII Goggles

Posted by kdawson on from the through-crt-colored-spectacles dept.

jabjoe writes "Russian artists from Moscow have created goggles with realtime image filtering. Among the Photoshop-like filters that can be applied is, interestingly, ASCII: you can view the world in real time as ASCII. Pointless but cool."

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  1. ASCII and thou shalt receive by Stanistani · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tint it green, have it flow downward, and you're Keanu Reeves...

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    1. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by gnarfel · · Score: 4, Funny

      But will it run linux? And, better yet, if it were to kernel panic, what would the world look like?

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    2. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by nano2nd · · Score: 5, Funny

      ..whoah

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    3. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by pragma_x · · Score: 3, Funny

      [takes off goggles]

      I know... Gimp-fu.

    4. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by jdray · · Score: 4, Funny

      If someone mirrors this site, will all the letters show up backward?

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    5. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by garcia · · Score: 3, Funny

      Tint it green, have it flow downward, and you're Keanu Reeves...

      Totally Excellent!

      Oh wait, wrong movie. Sorry, I just can't ever think of Keanu in anything but Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I guess there must be a glitch in the matrix or something...

    6. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by pragma_x · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have the same problem. While watching it, I kept expecting to have scenes like this:

      Neo: I totally had this dream where I woke up in a bathtub full of snot, and my head had this gnarly plug hooked into it. Then I went down this awesome waterslide. It was like waterloo, only totally metal.
      Neo: [does air guitar]

      Morpheus: That was no dream. The world as you understand it exists only as a massive simulation, designed and built by the machines, to deceive mankind while harnessing their body heat for energy. You were plugged into the matrix like the others, but we rescued you.

      Neo: [Looks painfully confused]

      Morpheus: [sighs] Up until now, you were a lot like that dude in that song "One" by Metallica.

      Neo: Excellent!

    7. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by KDR_11k · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh wait, wrong movie. Sorry, I just can't ever think of Keanu in anything but Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.


      Judging by his performance neither can Keanu Reeves.
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    8. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by ystar · · Score: 3, Funny

      My God!!! It's full of *****s!

    9. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by TuringTest · · Score: 3, Funny

      But will it run linux? And, better yet, if it were to kernel panic, what would the world look like? Or worse yet, how would the core dump smell?
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    10. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by somersault · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nevermind.. look over there.. blonde.. brunette..

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    11. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have a similar program, but with that guy who played Agent Smith. When he turned up in LotR, it totally ruined it for me. I kept saying 'Mr Andersonnnnn' after his lines..

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    12. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by failure-man · · Score: 2, Funny

      Who gives a shit? The writers on those movies failed "thermodynamics for poets" like, four times and got switched to "termodynamics for housepets." Which they also failed.

    13. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by Delkster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Poor you. It must be very dull without unicode support.

    14. Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive by weirdcrashingnoises · · Score: 4, Funny
      Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

      Neo: o rly?

      Morpheus: ya rly. *hands Neo goggles*

      Neo: ...whoah

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  2. Matrix... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You might see ASCII...but all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead...

    1. Re:Matrix... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You might see a Matrix reference, but all I see a string of worn out quotes. A Beowulf cluster of worn out quotes, where in Soviet Russia quote wears out you. Where I for one welcome our new worn out quote overlords. And My Eyes!! The worn out quotes do nothing.

  3. Finally, a place to use this quote... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 2, Funny

    "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

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    1. Re:Finally, a place to use this quote... by argStyopa · · Score: 2, Funny

      10 am site posted to /.
      10:04 apparently it worked.
      10:33 it's down.

      More like "My server! The website does nothing!"

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  4. Re:Pointless but cool? by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 5, Funny

    The goggles, they do nothing!

  5. Two guys on Moscow street by PinkyDead · · Score: 3, Funny

    A: I don't even see the code. All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.
    B: I can too you idiot - take those stupid goggles off. You're embarassing me.

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  6. Ob. DNA Comment. by Nomen+Publicus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, but can they sense peril?

  7. "Pointless, but cool." by pzs · · Score: 5, Funny

    That should totally be the new tag-line for Slashdot.

    Peter

    1. Re:"Pointless, but cool." by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 2, Funny

      # Required by truth in advertising legislation.
      TAGLINE="${TAGLINE%, but cool.}"
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  8. why did it have to be... by Digitus1337 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Moscow? Moderators, set your phasers to redundant.

    1. Re:why did it have to be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Amazingly it hasn't happened yet. Let's see what happens when we apply a "Soviet Russia" to the phrase that is being redundantly posted.

      In Soviet Moscow, brunette, blonde, and redhead only see you!

      Woah. Sometimes a combination of memes can reveal interesting truths. Time to move to Moscow. :)

    2. Re:why did it have to be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Time to move to Moscow.
      In Soviet Russia, Moscow moves to you!
  9. ASCII Goodness by kribby · · Score: 5, Funny

    so it's like a pair of beer goggles for nerds?

    1. Re:ASCII Goodness by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, right. The last thing we need is a bunch of geeks in wearable computing gear shouting "Yah, Baby, shake your @s!"

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  10. Needs more overlays. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    This would be really cool with some informative readouts along the edges. Battery power remaining, range to John Connor, progressive sequel crappiness quotient, that sort of thing.

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    1. Re:Needs more overlays. by MORB · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd rather have the range/direction to Sarah Connor myself.

  11. Article Tesx by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    At the risk of being a karma whore:

    "Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device - goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from "the cyberspace". See the video below:"

    Thanks.

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  12. Poor russians by packetmon · · Score: 5, Funny

    They don't have an ASCII representation of a /. effect. So I made one for em:

           ##
          ##
         ##
        ##
       ##
      ##      ###
    ##       ###

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    1. Re:Poor russians by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

      They don't have an ASCII representation of a /. effect. So I made one for em: Here's my rendition:
      404 Error - File Not Found
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  13. Re:Pointless but cool? by sayfawa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, but it's not even useless.

    a) enhance the surreality of certain drugs (didn't know surreality was a word, but spellchecker isn't complaining. Interestingly, my spellchecker says spellchecker is spelled wrong.

    b) make sex with unattractive people more fun. Actually, this would make sex with attractive people more fun too. As long as they don't complain about the massive stupid looking goggles you have on. Or the massive thing that powers them and keeps hitting your partner in the ribs.

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  14. Re:Obligatory by weirdcrashingnoises · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean, In Soviet Russia, goggles ascii you.

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  15. ObPedantic by itsdapead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tint it green, have it flow downward, and you're Keanu Reeves...

    Unfortunately TFA said ASCII - the Matrix included a lot of Japanese Katakana/Hiragana script so you'd probably need JIS, Unicode or ISO something-or-other...

    Also, do not try this at home unless you are The One - otherwise, after ten minutes you'd probably go green and flow downwards.

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    1. Re:ObPedantic by Stanistani · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, I was going to insert the clause, 'add unicode and some funky characters,' but I was distracted by the woman in the red dress.

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  16. Come on people by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Almost an hour has passed and not one person has claimed to have a screenshot and posted an ASCII goatse.

    1. Re:Come on people by dtoffe · · Score: 5, Funny

      http://goatse.ch/ascii.html

      Done

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  17. Quake 3 overlay by IckySplat · · Score: 3, Funny

    I buy one if I could overlay Q3 style textures over everything.
    Say selective overlays for different people :)
    Postman becomes zombies and add the sound effects for extra points
    It would make my morning commute to work a little more fun

    Probably require more CPU horsepower than that little unit could provide
    and I suspect the batties would weigh a ton.

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  18. Re:What happens if.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Simple: it'll cancel out and you'll wind up seeing the regular live-acted film.

  19. Re:What happens if.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What, like Leia replaced with Jar-Jar Binks?

  20. I think you mean.. by somersault · · Score: 3, Funny

    .. I know Script-Fu!

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  21. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In soviet nethack

    ......
    ..@d..
    ......

    you bite dog for 42 pts damage
    you hear a door burst open!
    you see an old meme shambling toward you
    you activate peril sensitive sunglasses
    the goggles do nothing!
    (moar)

  22. My name... is FRODO! by Pfhorrest · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Do you hear that, Mr. Baggins? That is the sound of inevitability. That is the sound, of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Baggins."

    "My name.... is FRODO!"

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