A Whole New First Person "Shooter"

[The_root_of_all_evil]

A Whole New First Person "Shooter"

Rob Spence is taking advantage of a childhood eye injury to develop a new kind of "first person shooter": a camera that fits in his eye socket.

Spence lost his eye in a shotgun accident when he was 13. It didn't prevent him from becoming a director, but did inspire him to team up with engineer pal Kosta Grammatis to create a "bionic" replacement, that could shoot film from a purely first person view. A team of ocularists, inventors and engineering specialists signed on for the appropriately named "Eyeborg" project [http://www.eyeborgblog.com/], to create a prosthetic eyeball that contains a miniature surveillance camera.

The prosthetic itself is made from a 1.5mm CMOS camera connected to a RF transmitter "smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser" and powered by a lithium battery. The film footage is transmitted back to a backpack worn by Spence.

While this might bring thoughts of Steve Austin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man] to mind, Spence aims to use the Eyeborg specifically to create films on how much surveillance is encroaching into modern society.

His website is here [http://eyeborg.blogspot.com/] but be warned that it does contain some very graphic images.

Dungeons and Dragons fanatics may note the similarity to the Eye of Vecna [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Vecna], but there's no news on the Head of Vecna [http://www.blindpanic.com/humor/vecna.htm] to go with it.

Source: The Register [http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/03/06/eyeborg_project/]: Warning: Graphic Imagery

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[Danny Ocean]

That was my idea!

 

[stormcaller]

Eyeborg, love it.

Good on this guy for doing that, a few more years and we will be ready to doom ourselves .

That was my idea!

But it was his "eyedea"

 

[Carlos263]

sounds like "Skynet" to me Its The beginning!!!!
/target john connor

still completley awesome tho

 

[Ancientgamer]

That is awesome.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Sounds awesome, at least until he starts getting Stunned once a day.

Hope you have a high Will modifier, Mr. Spence!

 

[Ancientgamer]

that is epic!!!

Ok seriously stop going to every news topic and posting a retarded generic comment.

On topic...

It's good to know that he will have his sight back soon, but I am confused about how much it will cost...

As far as I can tell, he's not actually getting his eyesight back, it's just miniature camera.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

I want one, but for different reasons but i might use it for this too.

 

[neoman10]

how did he lose his eye but not the rest of his head in a shotgun accident?

otherwise, great idea

 

[Limos]

That's going to give some intersting footage. It'll be first person, complete with movements of his head and eyeball. We'll probably get to see the sides of his eyesocket and nose when he looks around with it in. That'll be really cool.

 

[ila]

Woah, kinda reminds me of that one movie with the Zoe Implants. I think it was called The Final Cut or something?

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

It didn't prevent him from becoming a director, but did inspire him to team up with engineer pal Kosta Grammatis to create a "bionic" replacement, that could shoot film from a purely first person view.

Duh. No I expect the eye camera to shoot in third person.

 

[Abedeus]

Kind of pointless. You just have a miniature camera in your eye.

Can you even swim anymore? And paying thousands of dollars just to get a little help in directing movies? Meh.

 

[Baneat]

Absolutely the 100% best thing about this is that you could create a realistic first person perspective of a chase scene. Your eyes move to compensate for the movement of your body, so it wouldn't look all jerky if you filmed with that instead of a conventional camera.

 

[Red Right Hand]

I had an idea like that a while back, a film shot entirley in the first person, literally through someone elses eyes,

 

[Sigenrecht]

Counting down the days until the Assimilation.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Absolutely the 100% best thing about this is that you could create a realistic first person perspective of a chase scene. Your eyes move to compensate for the movement of your body, so it wouldn't look all jerky if you filmed with that instead of a conventional camera.

Unfortunately it wouldn't work that way, unless he somehow hooked the camera up to the muscles inside the ocular cavity (that's "eye socket" to the layman). The same reason a glass eye doesn't move the way the remaining real eye does.

Still, not only is this a cool idea, it could be a step forward in real bionic replacements. All we need now is a steampunk-fashioned bronze-plated model... Garrett, anyone?