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floating head
a mini-helicopter with a camera, screen, mike, speaker and wireless net connection | |
You can buy small, light helicopters. So take one of these and stick a small screen on the front, about the size of your face (it would have to be made of OLED to be light enough, so let's say ETA 3-5 years or so). Add a small camera, microphone+mini speakers, and a wireless net connection, and you have
the floating head.
To be telepresent, you wear a head-mounted rig containing a camera on a stalk pointing at your face, a microphone + headphones + eyephones (all pretty ugly, but available now), and a polhemus-style 6-degree-of-freedom sensor. The copter then moves to match your movements (avoiding obstacles of course). The image of your face appears on the helicopter's OLED screen, your voice comes out of its speakers, and you see/hear what it does.
This might work with a tether to provide power as well.
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[benfrost, Jan 17 2005]
Zardoz
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/
197X Movie Conspicuously Featuring a Floating Stone Head [contracts, Jan 18 2005]
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Would the helicopter be painted like a beanie? |
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I guess you're not a celebrity, with this camera in your face idea. |
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Cool, so you can see how weird you look with the head-mounted rig containing a camera on a stalk pointing at your face, a microphone + headphones + eyephones (all pretty ugly, but available now), and a polhemus-style 6-degree-of-freedom sensor. I've always wondered how I'd look with all that head gear. |
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Super Arch Villian Bumhat Terrorises City with Flying Face Minions. Thwarted by Children's Baseball Team. |
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Bumhat... are you a Weebl and Bob fan? |
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Monstrously wonderful (+). Like the hovering droid that probed Princess Leia, posessed by Max Headroom. |
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