Every day your eyeballs are assaulted by advertisements on your box of cereal, billboards, t-shirts, magazines, milk cartons, plastered on the side of buses, buildings, bananas, and written in the sky. [Reed], [Jonathan], [Tom], and [Alex] came up with a solution to this: a Brand Killer that censors all the advertisements and brands you see every minute of every day. It’s a real-world adblock that you can build right now.
The team’s system uses a custom head mounted display made from cardboard, goggles, a webcam, and a seven-inch display. The software for the system uses Python and OpenCV to monitor the images from the webcam, compares them against a list of brands and logos, and filters them out with an unobtrusive blur.
Right now the system just has a few brands and logos that include Dr. Pepper, Hershey’s, McDonalds, Facebook, Starbucks, and clear evidence this was built at UPenn, Wawa and Tastykake. In the video below, the detection and tracking of these various brands is very good. The system is also stereoscopic, meaning this is wearable all day, every day, without a loss of depth perception.
They Live!
+100! It would have been a laugh if they’d overlaid generic text over the blur, like “CONSUME”.
:-D Great film.
classic
Not particularly big on HMDs, but this is a cool purpose… I wonder how long it’ll take for Google Glass to replace real-world ads with their own.
A pretty long time, since Google is stopping the Glass project
It sure seems like they’re still going:
https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts/9uiwXY42tvc
Combine it with Microsofts new Hologram headset.
SLEEP
In the third season chapter of black mirror you can see the consequences of these projects !!! amazing !!
I came here just to make sure this was mentioned, and you did not disappoint.
Now the real question is if they have complete control over time for the virtual “siri” programs, why can’t they just say “If you work against us, we put you in solitary for a month. If you work for us, we’ll let you work one day and the put you on accelerated time for 6 days a week and connect you up to future Netflix or whatever is cool in 2025.”
Knew ya’ll would pick up the story if I tipped it to you! Thanks for writing this up
Change to facial recognition and you have the blocker from the latest “Black Mirror” episode!
This is how “they” will hack your eyes. Replacing what you are not allowed to see with what you are. Advertisement over any item of controversy.
Sort of like the SEP field in HHGTTG
+1 (I know what you mean ;-0)
+1 (I know what you mean ;-0)
here take my money!!!!
Cool. IIRC, Steve Mann did something like this at one point, with his EyeTap device. I think he called it “Mediated Reality”.
First thing I thought of as well.
They get this down into a single pair of glasses and I’m sold.
This running on Microsoft’s new HoloLens would be perfect.
This hack has come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And it’s all out of bubble gum.
I’m pretty sure this would be like seeing the world as a first-episode of Trailer Park Boys.
First-season episode. derp.
Can you modify this to block nipples and pubic regions? Then you could enjoy all the great food offered at strip clubs without all of the distracting nudity.
This changes everything. Once the NudeMod is in place, if everybody wears the glasses, then nobody has to wear clothes.
Not just strip clubs, do they still eat nude in San Francisco?
They should make a Adobe Premier plugin that does this so when you’re recording a movie/clip you don’t show your competitors ads, or someone who doesn’t pay you for the ad space on your channel.
The Laughing Man looks forward to seeing this being released to the masses.
Hey, some of us like Wawa and Tastykake!
Now if it blocked 7-11, Sheetz, and Turkey Hill, I might be interested.
If it blocked 7-11 in Taipei, the whole world would turn into one massive blur…
Be nice if it can also be used on unfriendly people. Blue out their middle finger and blur out their face so you can’t read their lip. Maybe while driving on the road, you can get a giant red arrow above the car of hostile driver so you can avoid them.
It can somehow backfire if there’s malware in your glasses or otherwise hacked into so you don’t see the actual truth but something different. I’m reminded of one episode of Accel World where a boy was tricked into going in girls’ room because of a virus that placed a boys’ room image on girls’ sign.
How about people ratings to add to that? So if someone has a bad rating they just get blurred out completely and you won’t even deal with them. Sort of like Yelp for humans with blocking. :D
All these spontaneous ideas to censor stuff in a negative way makes me feel slightly nauseous about humanity, how they seem to clamour for censorship like some well-trained monkeys.
Combine this with noise canceling headphones and we can effectively remove annoying people from the world.
They live! Ideology! *blows nose*
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=18qD9hmU9xg
Wouldn’t it be ironic if, someday, a future version of Google Glass could be hacked to do this. That would be the only application for that shitty device and the complete opposite of everything Google stands for.
This was my thought years ago when they released the first google glass : “Would adblock could be used to block ads in reality ?”
Instead such future google glass would use its cam to detect what adds you accidentally look at and then copy those ads to other places you look so you can’t look away I bet. Maybe project them on people’s forehead.
Or maybe they just detect what product you recently bought then all other users will see the logo of that item augemented VR projected on that person.
After first informing the NSA that you met them of course. First things first.
Too bad the default behavior would be placing relevant advertising in generic spots. Without the glasses there’s a static ad. With the glasses there’s a targeted ad.
My glasses are made of plastic, gives me 20/20 vision and gives the best reality experience you can get. Best part is no batterys required