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Android Phone Turned Into Virtual Reality Goggles
andylim writes "After years of hype surrounding virtual reality, including the classic '90s movie The Lawnmower Man, few of us can claim to have experienced virtual reality at home. But what if you could build your own virtual reality goggles without having to spend a fortune? Using an HTC Magic and Google Street View, Recombu.com made a simple pair of virtual reality goggles that let you immerse yourself in distant locations. As the article points out, you can also use these goggles with augmented reality apps — although you probably don't want to walk around with them all day long."
Haha. This reminds me of an old image describing an early hands-free cellphone system:
http://spiro10.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/hands-free-cell-phone.jpg
Which suits me, as I'm monocular! I don't even have to take off my dashing eye patch!
In the maelstrom of the chaos at the center of my mind, I taste the salt of sadness as I feel my soul unwind.
You might not be taking it far enough!
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
synopsis: when the phone battery wears off, Neo realizes that he no longer is saving the human race from enslavement in a VR world constructed by Aliens, but really was wearing a cereal box duck-tapped to his head all along.
1. Go to Babes(or Dudes)OnCam.
2. Open a webcam window
3. Open a second instance of the same webcam
4. Size the the same and place them side by side.
5. Look at them cross eyed until you get a far more interesting pseudo-3D VR than some street view of someplace, without goggles, Googles, immersion, or Androids.
6. Or go blind.
7. Just kidding, that can't happen.
8. No, they won't get stuck either.
9. Mine? They've always been like this.
10. They have so. Really.
11. Wait, androids? That would be SOOOOO.....
12. What? oh. those. Nevermind.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
You should see my time machine. And my hovercraft. And my spaceship.
I got my degree from the University of Calvin and Hobbes.
But it's such a cool cardboard box! He wrote "Virtual Reality" on the side with a black pen! :)
I intend to live forever, or die trying. - Groucho Marx
Since most of these phones wouldn't last all day on a charge, how about adding
some solar cells on the top of the cardboard box?
I'm waiting for someone to tape a 22" LCD to his car's windshield.
Musicians don't die. They just decompose.