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Realtime ASCII Goggles
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."
Tint it green, have it flow downward, and you're Keanu Reeves...
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It's not pointless if it's cool, it's just useless.
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I think the ASCII mode would have been cooler if they'd run the edge detect first. As it was, it seemed like the majority of the information rendered was in the brightness of the characters, not in the choice of character for each position.
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I'd never get it back. This product has enormous toy potential.
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
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.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
Ah, but can they sense peril?
someone shoots an ASCII art porno using these things? The Internet is for porn, after all.
That should totally be the new tag-line for Slashdot.
Peter
...means you lose depth perception.
Nice gimmick, though.
...Moscow? Moderators, set your phasers to redundant.
so it's like a pair of beer goggles for nerds?
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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But will they show you recreations of the death scenes of famous celebrities based on GPS coordinates?
I could see a lot of uses for it. Not nessarly the ASCII Filter but other filters can be nice. Say a brightness filter may make you better able to see in low light. Negitive Filter may help you find Jesus, in cloth. Other Filters could aid learning artest how to draw by removing the natural shading in real life, and break things down into simple shapes. Heck the Ascii filter could probably be good for trainging for sending images on Low Bandwidth networks and having people get the images and decode them easier.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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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What happens if you watch ASCII Star Wars through the ASCII goggles?
They don't have an ASCII representation of a /. effect. So I made one for em:
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I think you mean, In Soviet Russia, goggles ascii you.
sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
this might of been it ? ascii-wm.net
It would be better if there were stereo cameras, and different video going to each eye. I can only guess at the sort of eye strain you'd get with this and ascii mode. Better still, different processing modes in each eye!
Its current configuration may be somewhat useless, but there is a point to goggles which allow overlay. This is essentially synthetic reality. It is my thoughts that soon "goggles" like these will be as common as bluetooth headsets are now - though they will probably be glasses rather than goggles (or perhaps even contacts, eventually).
I don't need to list the plethora of uses for synthetic reality, but even in this nascent stage I could see the ability to increase and decrease contrast as useful - perhaps in searching around for something lost.
This is simply algorithms being applied to a video - with object recognition the potential is large.
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Cool but rather useless.
BTW for me at least, the OpenGL driver delivers a far better image under Vista than DirectX. Don't know if this is DRM related or not but the quality is far better.
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.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Almost an hour has passed and not one person has claimed to have a screenshot and posted an ASCII goatse.
In the video the guy says there is no computer or operating system. Maybe its all embedded, but obviously it has a CPU running their software.
As far as being just a toy, this thing could actually be quite useful. It could be used to enhance vision, sort of like Geordi's visor in Star Trek. It could display things outside of human vision, or amplify small differences to make them more apparent. Of course it could be used for night vision too. Personally, I would be interested in the hardware if I write my own software / filters for it. The point is, with this type of augmented vision, the sky's pretty much the limit. Imagine if it was OCRing what you look at real-time, so that you could look at something, and the system could display additional information about uncommon words (nouns like place names, product names, etc).
How about the Photosynth demo Microsoft did, where they would take many 2D images of buildings, and reconstruct them in 3D, allowing the user to zoom in in massive detail (if someone had taken photos of that particular place). If that type of image recognition could be done real-time to match what you are currently looking at, then you could look at the inside of a building without entering it. Or zoom in or out, or pan or change your POV entirely, without actually moving your body.
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Better known as 318230.
The thing that impressed me was I believe I saw a standard Sobel operator filter that extracts lines based on the derivatives of a pixel and its neighbors. Now in computer vision oftentimes this is used to simplify complex scenes so that region/structural analysis can be done.
You know when you're developing computer vision applications for robots, it sure would help to be able to code an algorithm & take it outside to test it against different light sources and scenarios so you get an idea of what needs to be tweaked.
Plus if your robots have hardware restrictions, this system can enforce them to give you an idea of realtime lag.
I could see this being a very valuable tool in the realms of academia & robotics. I realize the original idea is for ACII art, as mentioned, but there are some real applications here.
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There's a moderately batty man who wanders through the streets with a setup that looks exactly like this. He's trying to remain permanently connected to cyberspace, or something to that effect. Not sure if anyone will know what I'm talking about, though. :)
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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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I found the video posted on YouTube, for folks (like me) who didn't get to the main site before it started smoking.
Gargoyle lifestyle, here we come.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
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.
.. I know Script-Fu!
which is totally what she said
In soviet nethack
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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!
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More interesting is the application of networked versions of the goggles, it would be then possible to have the field of vision wireframed and allow for many different kinds of detection techniques.
It would also make playing lasertag or paintball much easier...
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