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Big Head by Dan Rosenfeld - Halloween 2011
“The wearer’s face is captured with a video camera looking through a half-silvered mirror. There’s a second camera, which captures a view from the front of the box, near the eyes of the on-screen face. The outside view is shown on an internal LCD, which reflects on the half-silvered mirror; this way the wearer can look directly at the LCD and the camera at the same time.”
(via LaughingSquid)
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Teleporter is an interaction design sketch by Peter Bennett. It explores how a teleportation illusion could be used to enhance digital communication.
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“The wheeled robot, formally called the Mobilny System Monitoringu Wizyjnego (Mobile Visual Monitoring System, or MSMW), is described as a “patrol robot”, and is one part of the JUSTUS security firm’s services.”
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This new telepresence robot by Tobita Hiroaki and his team at Sony Computer Science Laboratories floats around with the remote user’s face projected onto it.
“The project is still in the early stages, and researches will soon begin testing the unit on users to gauge their reactions to interacting with a floating, disembodied head. Already, Hiroaki says that his colleagues have described the experience as “very strange.”
Would you like to know more? (there’s video)
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Tele-present Water by David Bowen
“This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46075 Shumagin Islands Alaska (53°54’39” N 160°48’21” W). The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.”
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Telepresence based on squeezing objects to send love isn’t a new concept at all - but this video by Tellart has a certain sensitivity that explains it very nicely.
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This is Telenoid R1. It’s designed to transmit the presence of a person to a different place.
Its creator, Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro and his collaborators say the idea was to create a teleoperated robot that could appear male or female, old or young, and that could be easily transported. The new design pushes the envelope of human-robot interaction by diving into the uncanny valley.
