An experiment in connectivity

Look out through my glasses right now (and/or most recently)

In the meantime, while the system is being vastly improved, please visit the gallery of previously transmitted pencigraphic image composites ("Seamless Hockney" with the cubism removed computationally, giving rise to a single-perspective image composite).

The new parallel-processor pencigraphic image compositing tool will hopefully be up and running in the next few months.

Previously, the image assembly has been slow, but hopefully the "painting with looks" environment maps will be back online soon, at the much higher (near realtime) data rate.

The WearCam project is also in need of some UROP students to convert everything over to Java or something like that so that the environment maps are interactive (so people can navigate my current sphere of view in real time in a more intuitive way)

WearCam was one of the first cameras (perhaps it was the second camera to appear on the WWW) on the WWW, inspired by the coffee pot camera in the UK, although, presently, there are no other wearable or pencigraphic cameras on the WWW.

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See a larger gallery of what I've recently looked at

See galleries of previously transmittted images

• See a picture of the apparatus (me wearing it).
• Research papers:
  • Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality (with possible future applications to the disabled)
  • `Smart Clothing'
  • Tetherless computer-mediated reality in the real world (PostScript file available from VisMod home page, TR260)
  • Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing (collaborative work with Thad Starner, etal)
• Privacy issues of wearable cameras versus surveillance cameras

Contact info: Prof. Steve Mann,
University of Toronto,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G4,
(416) 946-3387
[email protected].