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We are Team Syneseizure![br]We are unmasking reality.

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(crowd laughs)

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So we don't see reality, we don't see this,[br]reality is far too complex.

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There's way too much information in it.

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So what happens is that reality gets massively compressed..

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and filtered before we see it.

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So our 'hack' aims to go from this 'filtered reality'[br]

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back to 'real reality' in some way.

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So how are we going to do that?

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So, usually we have various sensory inputs..

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sight goes to vision, [br]olfactory goes to the nose for example.

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And what we want to do is [br]we want to hack that.

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We want to send the sensory input [br]to the wrong sense.

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And the reason for that is [br]we want to try to confuse our system,

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we want to get around the normal data [br]filtering algorythms in our visual cortex.

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So how are we going to do that?

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We chose to use visual input and send that to our sense of touch.

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Why? Because it was fairly intuitive,

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The visual input is an array of pixels,

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and you can imagine in this example[br]how it can be mapped to tactile.

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So.. we implemented this, [br]we thought about various different ways,[br]

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the linear actuaters were too expensive,

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these vibrators were way too expensive,[br](crowd laughs)

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BUT, it turns out that you can use small speakers as vibraters

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and they're like 60 cents each.

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So, here's our design. [br]We take a webcam for visual input,

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that puts out an array of numbers[br]that goes into an Arduino,

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and drives an array of vibrators[br]that we put into your sense of touch.

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Where did we put it?

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We put it in your face!

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Why? Because your face is[br]a great place to put the sense of touch,

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As illustrated by Homonculus.

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So, our sartorial concepts came from

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A fetish leather patterns journal

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And we implemented this.

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Here it is, the original design[br]and implementing it,

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And now we will show you a demonstration

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of Team Syneseizure.

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So, we're now plugging in the USB port,

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to get the video webcam[br]to communicate with

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these 16 vibrators [br]attached to parts of his face.

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Ok now, who can see it?

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You can see on the computer screen

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the pixel images that are being compressed

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from the webcam input,

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is giving us a very simple visual stimulus,

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And now Bob is going to tell us,[br]more or less,

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where he's feeling that on his face.

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So you can see now there's a visual input

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that's coming into the webcam,

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and he feels it, in his face![br](crowd laughs)

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He's Synesthesic![br](applause)

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He can see reality with no filter!

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(applause)

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And that is Team Syneseizure,[br]Thank you.

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(applause)