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France? Perish the thought. Paris? Non.
If you find yourself, through inadvertency or necessity, in
Paris, simply don MaxCo's stylish VR Glasses Anglais. The two
miniature cameras will capture a stereoscopic view of your
surroundings and, through the medium of software, an image
will appear
on the inbuilt screens before your eyes.
You will then be comforted by a reassuring view of a London
street, carefully selected and modified to match your actual
surroundings sufficiently to navigate and avoid obstacles.
They du...
http://www.youtube....watch?v=ci-jxj54Qr8
[normzone, Jul 05 2012]
Une baguette Anglais
http://www.scarleti...ages/bowler_hat.jpg
[ytk, Jul 05 2012]
The next step on from this...
http://www.youtube....watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs
...and the next step will be to create the illusion that all the food tastes bland and boiled to death [oscil8, Jul 07 2012]
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I think the magic would be ruined if you were in any
country that drives on the right, including France. |
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//country that drives on the right, including
France.// |
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[edit, having checked up on this]. *sigh*. We're just
going to have to go over there and explain how
things are done. |
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Also, it might be a bit weird seeing a bunch of people
standing around pissing into a telephone box. |
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Marvelleux, i would love these for my forthcoming trip! |
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How would it render a man walking along carrying a baguette under his arm I wonder? |
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I am sure some clever image matching algorithm could crawl google earth and find matches for most places in each country, from capital city centres to rural back lanes and farm entrances. |
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//it might be a bit weird seeing a bunch of people standing around pissing into a telephone box// I thought that was normal in London? |
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//a bit weird seeing a bunch of people standing
around pissing into a telephone box.// Depends
on what part of London is being overdubbed.
However, in practice it would replace the crude
gallic sorts with pleasant English types, queing in
an orderly manner to use the telephone
apparatus. |
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//How would it render a man walking along
carrying a baguette under his arm I wonder?//
Clearly, it would superimposit a bowler hatted
chap with an umbrella, tightly furled in the English
manner, under his arm. |
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// a bunch of people ... pissing into a telephone box. I thought that was normal in London? // |
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No, the English form an orderly queue, and take their turn. The CrowdPissing thing is definitely a Continental affectation. |
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As a subject of Her Majesty, I can confirm
that we are required to queue for syphoning
the jolly old python even in the middle of a
field. Jumping the queue is likely to
encourage a raised eyebrow. |
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Only in your more genteel parts of the realm. Trying
this in one of the more “working class”
neighbourhoods is likely to elicit cries of “Oi!” and
“Who you think y'are, mate, the bleedin' Queen?” |
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Baked. Welbutron. next please. |
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I think the bigger issue is actually finding a phone box, barring that you could do what I saw some guy in Japan doing, pissing on a fence, which would have been fine if it wasn't a chain-link fence. |
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On a more serious note, this would go well with the Reverse-O-Screen what I had on here ages ago, a camera on the front of the car, showing a reversed image on a screen inside the car.... |
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//You will then be comforted by a reassuring view of
a London street// |
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I would suggest this is how best to implement the
eighth level of hell. |
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[Ubie], fear not, we are working on regional
versions of the software. |
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Australia is quite far down our list, but in the
meantime you might want to try our beta-test
Cardiff version. It will mask all of those
bewildering
horseless carriages and electric lights, and will
overdub the French themselves with receptive
sheep. If you don't mind carrying around a small
bottle of cold urine to pour into your beer, the
illusion will be near-perfect. |
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