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Category Archives: video hacks
Tricking The Brain Into Seeing Boosted Contrast in Stereo Imagery
Last year a team of researchers published a paper detailing a method of boosting visual contrast and image quality in stereoscopic displays. The method is called Dichoptic Contrast Enhancement (DiCE) and works by showing each eye a slightly different version of an image, tricking the brain into fusing the two …read more
Posted in contrast, real-time, science, sensory trickery, tone mapping, unity, video hacks, Virtual Reality, vr
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A Pair of CRTs Drive This Virtual Reality Headset
With the benefit of decades of advances in miniaturization, looking back at the devices of yore can be entertaining. Take camcorders; did we really walk around with these massive devices resting on our shoulders just to record the family trip to Disneyworld? We did, but even if those days are …read more
Posted in accelerometer, camcorder, cathode ray tube, crt, hdmi, LM303DLHC, video hacks, Virtual Reality, vr
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Behold a 3D Display, Thanks to a Speeding Foam Ball
We’ve seen 3D image projection tried in a variety of different ways, but this is a new one to us. This volumetric display by Interact Lab of the University of Sussex creates a 3D image by projecting light onto a tiny foam ball, which zips around in the air fast …read more
Posted in 3d, acoustic, levitation, science, ultrasonic, video hacks, volumetric display
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A Raspberry Pi 4 Video Streaming Backpack
Were you aware that there’s a market for backpack-housed live streaming video systems, and that they can cost as much as $1600? Apparently these things are popular with social media moguls who want to stream themselves living their fabulous lives to people sitting at home watching on YouTube or Twitch. …read more
Speeding Up Drawing To MCU-Connected Serial Displays
Writing image data to serially connected (SPI/I2C) displays from a microcontroller is easy enough these days, courtesy of standards defined by the MIPI Alliance, yet there are some gotchas in it which may catch someone using it unaware. [Larry Bank] wrote up a good summary of how one can get …read more
Posted in lcds, MCU, Microcontrollers, mipi, serial displays, spi, video hacks
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RCA Created Video Records too Late
It is easy to find technology success stories: the PC, DVD, and cell phone are all well-documented tales. However, it is a little harder to find the stories behind the things that didn’t quite take off as planned. As the old saying goes, “success has many parents but failure is …read more
Posted in CED, home video, RCA, retrotechtactular, selectavision, video disc, video disk, video hacks
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10-Way Game Console Lets Everyone Play
[Bitluni]’s motto seems to be, “When you’re busy, get busier.” At least that would explain adding even more work to his plate in the run-up to the Hanover Maker Faire and coming up with a ten-player game console from scratch.
As for this being extra work, recall that [bitluni] had …read more
Posted in composite, dac, ESP32, gamepad, nintendo, nintendo hacks, pal, R-2R Ladder, video hacks
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Building DIY Acoustic Panels To Cut Down On Echoes
Plenty of hackers and makers are passionate about content creation. In the dog-eat-ice-bucket-challenge world of online video, production value is everything. If you want to improve your audio quality then cutting down on echoes is a must, and these acoustic panels will help you to do just that.
The build …read more
Posted in acoustic panels, acoustics, sound, video, video hacks
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Measure Your YouTube Importance
How do you hack your motivation? Do you put red marker Xs on a paper calendar every day you exercise? Do you use an egg timer to sprint through dozens of emails? Do you lock all the doors and shut off your data to write some bulletproof code? If you …read more
Pi Zero Streams Video From “Fake” Security Camera
Fake security cameras are advertised as a cheap way to deter anyone who might be up to no good. This isn’t a crime and punishment blog, so we’re not really in a position to say how accurate that claim actually is, but we see enough of these things for sale …read more
Posted in Balena, dummy camera, Raspberry Pi, security camera, streaming video, video hacks, WebRTC
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