Fabian's M.A. thesis is a bit hard to read if you take his advice: close your eyes. But despite that little problem, he seems to have come up with some clever applications for eye closing in a computing environment, specifically "How closing the eyes enriches visual media." You just have to peep the video showreel to see what he's getting at, but the basic gist of it involves using winks, squints and blinks to operate related computing tasks, such as closing your eyes to activate text-to-speech, or closing one eye to activate a sniper scope. Other applications get a little bit higher minded, such as using your imagination to improve video content, or merely blinking to shut off the screen and rest you eyes. If you want spy the rest of Fabian's research, you'll have to prop open your own peepers to get a view -- we're taking a nap.
posted Apr 4th 2007 5:59PM
This could be like a "blink twice for yes" sorta thing.
I think that the close one eye for sniper scope is an awesom idea...now if they could get that on a gaming sytem that would rock!
"using your imagination to improve video content"...kinda reminds me of the way I improved the Star Wars prequels...
I guess they could use the 'close your eyes to improve the experience' idea in theatres. In a theatre you can get a 100% dark room by shutting down the projector (or blocking the light). This could give a whole new dimension to IMAX...
But since matter is radiating in there, it can't actually be 100% without light, can it?