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We are Team Syneseizure!
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,
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'


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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, 
olfactory goes to the nose for example.

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And what we want to do is 
we want to hack that.

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We want to send the sensory input 
to the wrong sense.

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

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we want to get around the normal data 
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
how it can be mapped to tactile.

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So.. we implemented this, 
we thought about various different ways,


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the linear actuaters were too expensive,

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these vibrators were way too expensive,
(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. 
We take a webcam for visual input,

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that puts out an array of numbers
that goes into an Arduino,

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and drives an array of vibrators
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
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
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
to communicate with

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these 16 vibrators 
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,
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!
(crowd laughs)

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He's Synesthesic!
(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,
Thank you.

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(applause)