Daily Archives: July 13, 2006

X’Tal Vision

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This offshoot of the University of Tokyo, Chrystal Vision, uses projectors and camera’s to good use in order to create some startling illusions.

One is invisible / see through clothing, which uses a camera / projector setup to make it look as though the cape is transparent (I’ve seen many blogs referring to this as the real thing ie. bending light around the cape or the back being made up of camera’s and the front of display, but they obviously failed to go to the source and check up to see that it’s really clever trickery).

They also dive into telepresence or telexistence, where they project people onto robots to make it seem like they’re there.

They have a space age futuristic head mounted projector, which just looks far out.

There are plenty of movies on the site to illustrate better what they’re doing – it’s very convincing indeed.

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Another new browser in the wars.

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But this one is specifically for visiting porn sites with. It’s called Heatseak and implements a shell on IE, closing it down for much of the nasty behaviour certain porn sites exhibit (spyware, popups etc). The installer allows you to choose a variety of names / icons for it, so it’s not too obvious on your PC, and it has playlists of the stuff you’ve downloaded a bit like itunes. Also all the downloaded content and sites you’ve visited are stored encrypted on its’ own bit of disk, so no one else can get at it or see where you’ve gone. Anonymity is a big point of the design. If you want to view the content outside of Heatseak you pay $20,- for a gold version.

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