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This is a project which will literally pull your mind out from your head.
The whole idea is to view ourselves live in 3rd person. A camera will be mounted to ourselves looking at us from behind. A video goggle setup will then allow us to only see ourselves in 3rd person.
We will explore how to make a setup like this for relatively cheap. We'll look at other permutations, such as transmitting the data, using the setup in paintball with a marker mounted camera, and so on.
[edit: check out step 10 for the 3rd person view]
The whole idea is to view ourselves live in 3rd person. A camera will be mounted to ourselves looking at us from behind. A video goggle setup will then allow us to only see ourselves in 3rd person.
We will explore how to make a setup like this for relatively cheap. We'll look at other permutations, such as transmitting the data, using the setup in paintball with a marker mounted camera, and so on.
[edit: check out step 10 for the 3rd person view]
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As the setup goes, really any camera with a video output will do. I have a small video CCD camera with the component video and audio output. That ran me about $60. You can get cheaper ones if you'd like. If you really want to play with this, I would suggest getting a good camera. After having done it, I would prefer a higher quality camera.
Some digital cameras or camcorders can do video out as well. That will work, as long as it is live.
Some digital cameras or camcorders can do video out as well. That will work, as long as it is live.
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video of you walking around and a P in P of what you yourself are seeing at
the same time.
Meanwhile, congrats for a thoroughly entertaining instructable.
Love this website.
YODA!!!!
"This is a project which will literally pull your mind out from your head."
You don't mean literally. That sentence works if you delete "literally." You mean the opposite of literally: figuratively. But we get that as long as you don't say literally.
In current popular usage, the word "literally" is not used literally or correctly 96 percent of the time.
My work here is done.
With that being said, great instructable BigRedRocket!
On a more constructive note, the "position" of the mind is highly linked with our visual reference point - thus if our vantage point is outside our body, as it is here, after some adjustment time we will feel like we are living outside our body. So your mind is literally pulled outside your head.
Your work here was awful, you are fired.
"So your mind is literally pulled outside your head."
It works if you delete the word "literally." Otherwise it creates an odd and meaningless image. A mind cannot be literally pulled anywhere. Only figuratively.
A lot of people have the idea that adding the word "literally" to an otherwise perfectly good sentence somehow increases the intensity of meaning. It doesn't.
Take the word "literally" out, and the sentence is stronger. Just like most sentences that contain the word "very" are stronger without it.
I agree that the instructable on the whole is very good. Maybe that's why I'm bothered by such a weak opening line.
But since I can't imagine a FIGURATIVE way to have a great time, there is no need to specify that you intended that statement literally. Here too, your use of the word "literally" is superfluous, distracting, and verbose.
I'm just saying.
If you were "just saying" you wouldn't have felt the need to continue this inane rant following BigRedRocket's obvious joke written at 10:53 AM the 26th Day of December.
You are also treading on the boundaries of the Be Nice Policy. Your cantankerous disposition has no place here, you pointed out clearly your disdain for the grammatically incorrect use of the word literally, to continue this any further is to bait argument.
SHUT
UP
NOW
LITERALLY
And your position. Even if I ignore that you're screaming.
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The goggles I have can take a 3D video source input. That requires a interlaced video signal which is difficult to generate. If you can find goggles that take in two separate video sources it would be a lot easier.
Nice project. It remember me a project I made. I used a small circuit from a broken IR remote controled car (+- 30grams) with a TIP4*** for drive the camera righ/left with a 9-12v geerbox from a BBq chicken turning rod... U Know... It turn veeeeerrrrrryyyyyyy slow. And used the front/reverse for the zoom
I don't what imagine the feeling with as wiimote attached to your head/neck!!! Remember ROBOCOP
You might want to really tuck away them AV leads though, so a cop doesn't shoot you thinking you have a bomb.
Most of these off the shelf goggles have a single video input, and they typically have a single LCD inside with optics to split it up. Ideally I would have goggles with two independent screens with separate inputs, then it would be easy.