We are Team Syneseizure! We are unmasking reality.
(crowd laughs)
So we don't see reality, we don't see this, reality is far too complex.
There's way too much information in it.
So what happens is that reality gets massively compressed..
and filtered before we see it.
So our 'hack' aims to go from this 'filtered reality'
back to 'real reality' in some way.
So how are we going to do that?
So, usually we have various sensory inputs..
sight goes to vision, olfactory goes to the nose for example.
And what we want to do is we want to hack that.
We want to send the sensory input to the wrong sense.
And the reason for that is we want to try to confuse our system,
we want to get around the normal data filtering algorythms in our visual cortex.
So how are we going to do that?
We chose to use visual input and send that to our sense of touch.
Why? Because it was fairly intuitive,
The visual input is an array of pixels,
and you can imagine in this example how it can be mapped to tactile.
So.. we implemented this, we thought about various different ways,
the linear actuaters were too expensive,
these vibrators were way too expensive, (crowd laughs)
BUT, it turns out that you can use small speakers as vibraters
and they're like 60 cents each.
So, here's our design. We take a webcam for visual input,
that puts out an array of numbers that goes into an Arduino,
and drives an array of vibrators that we put into your sense of touch.
Where did we put it?
We put it in your face!
Why? Because your face is a great place to put the sense of touch,
As illustrated by Homonculus.
So, our sartorial concepts came from
A fetish leather patterns journal
And we implemented this.
Here it is, the original design and implementing it,
And now we will show you a demonstration
of Team Syneseizure.
So, we're now plugging in the USB port,
to get the video webcam to communicate with
these 16 vibrators attached to parts of his face.
Ok now, who can see it?
You can see on the computer screen
the pixel images that are being compressed
from the webcam input,
is giving us a very simple visual stimulus,
And now Bob is going to tell us, more or less,
where he's feeling that on his face.
So you can see now there's a visual input
that's coming into the webcam,
and he feels it, in his face! (crowd laughs)
He's Synesthesic! (applause)
He can see reality with no filter!
(applause)
And that is Team Syneseizure, Thank you.
(applause)