DIY Wearable Pi With Near-Eye Video Glasses 59
coop0030 (263345) writes "Noe & Pedro Ruiz at Adafruit have created a pair of open source near-eye video glasses combined with a Raspberry Pi. Their 3D Printed design turns a pair of 'private display glasses' into a "google glass"-like form factor. It easily clips to your prescription glasses, and can display any kind of device with Composite Video like a Raspberry Pi. They have a video demonstrating the glasses, a tutorial on how to build them, along with the 3d files required to print it out."
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yeah and get rid of all those people walking around with radios tied to cameras too.
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I would call this "ghetto glass." You have to spend real $ to move up to full glasshole.
Re:Just what we need - more glassholes (Score:5, Funny)
You mean "Pi holes".
Hmmm, pi.
Re:Just what we need - more glassholes (Score:5, Informative)
The privacy concerns are one thing. If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
If anything, you should be cheering this on: this is a competitor to google glass without the privacy issues.
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Wrong, the objections are just from losers that are jealous or anti technology. Anyone with half a brain knows the camera is not recording all the time and you cant start recording with just your mind.
In your face. (Score:3, Insightful)
If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
I object to having a conversation with someone who hasn't the courtesy to maintain eye contact and to focus on what is being said but rather with what is on screen.
The screen is "in my face" never just "on his face."
I object to tech that encourages its users to become more insular and self-absorbed. If that makes me a Luddite so be it.
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If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
I object to having a conversation with someone who hasn't the courtesy to maintain eye contact and to focus on what is being said but rather with what is on screen.
Yeah... Smart phone users piss me off too... Here is an idea. Be annoyed with the asshole, not the tool the asshole uses. Even with this, the user can still look you in the eye and concentrate. Depth perception is totally screwed, so catch is probably out, however.
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I don't mind people using HMDs.
I mind people using HMDs with cameras attached that don't tell me that they're recording me.
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It's not that easy to hide the phone. Having glasses on your head you can claim that you're not recording. Holding a cellphone in front of you, no such luck.
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http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UT... [amazon.com]
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What battle? I didn't even know I've started fighting.
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She's got you folks in a panic, doesn't she?
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Remember folks, if you can't argue the facts, attack the person. Ad Hominem Attacks, for the win!
Very low-cost (Score:2)
I get the whole idea, but frankly I'd start with something else than a 320x240 display with a composite video signal [adafruit.com].
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Glass is only 640x360, so it isn't a bad start for a tenth of the cost.
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Google Glass is 640x360? Somehow I expected much more from them.
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You're not the only one. A friend of mine that loves google enough to give them his firstborn was ga-ga over google glass.
He finally got to try one. Reality shattered. Augmented reality? Hardly. Quality display? Only if it were 1990. Useful? No. Priced right? Only if you removed two zeroes. He was crushed.
He'll still buy anything else that says "google" on it, though, and give google any personal info they'd ever like to sell, because they're "open". LOL. The bad buy at the end of the movie Se7
It's just a matter of time... (Score:3)
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Exploding glasses? Who designed this, the same idiot that designed the computers for the bridge of the Enterprise?
OK Pi: (Score:3)
pi-goggles $ apt-get photo-app
pi-goggles $ photo-app -c "Take photo of approaching fist" -s "facebook.com" -a "Blow, Joseph"
*** CRUNCH! ***
That's amore (Score:1)
thanks (Score:1)
What are the glasses? (Score:2)
I'm actually more interested in the glasses than the 3D hack-job...
The site is down - anyone recognize them?
Re:Cool (Score:4, Funny)
Building it is part of the fun!
Hand in your geek card on your way out...
I Pi with my little eye (Score:2)
That VGA cable it's using... (Score:1)
... doesn't look -in any way- inconvenient.
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This doesn't use the VGA output from the Raspberry Pi- it uses the composite video output. 75 ohm coax isn't necessarily thin, but for short distances and the type of video they are talking about, even audio cables may be "good enough." As in "good enough" to get the resolution you would expect from composite video.
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The Pi has a VGA out? What the hell have I been buying that only has HDMI and composite?
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He had me until he said "It's easy to get Pi in your eye with..." and I just turned the video off.
It may be an excess of caution.... (Score:2)
.... or simply that as I age I am more protective of my vision.
But I would really like to see devices like these reviewed by eye doctors and other perhaps other specialists before I commit to building or wearing them.
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Here let me save you the time - "Unless they're sold to you by a licensed Ophthalmologist at five times the normal price, they are bad for your eyes."
Never ask the salesman what you should buy.
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Ask and ye shall receive [forbes.com].
TL;DR: There are risks associated with all HUDs, but the likelihood of developing problems stems from having the eyes compete. A monocular display (or well-aligned binocular) should be fine, as long as the display is sufficiently different from the background view that the brain knows it's seeing something different.
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TL;DR: "the risk of wearing Glass appears to be low", according to a Eli Peli, who has been "con$ulting with the Glass team for nearly two years."
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Head mounted displays are used pretty regularly in military aviation.
For young adults in their physical prime and entering an inherently high risk profession. Tech with an almost unlimited budget for research and development.
Another similar project (Score:1)