Prismatic Inverting goggles are widely known to exist, you put them on and everything looks upside down. After a few days your brain adjusts and you see everything as normal. They are widely used by travellers intending to fly to the antipodes, so that they see as normal when they get to the upside-down countries.
Proposed is a rotating version. A dial on the side sets the speed of rotation, from one rotation per minute to one rotation per 3 days.-- pocmloc, May 25 2021 No, why?-- pocmloc, May 25 2021 You could wear them while watching a synchronised rotating television screen-- pocmloc, May 25 2021 I propose fractal radial rotary goggles, which consist of multiple pairs of increasingly smaller rotary goggles stacked on top of each other, so that each "goggle" resembles, not a thick disc containing a prism, but a disc with 3 smaller discs emerging from the sides of it in the manner of a radial engine, and 3 smaller discs coming out of each of those, etc. etc. All of the discs rotate independently. When fully implemented, this apparatus ensures that each "pixel" of visual space is mapped to an arbitrary direction which is constantly changing.-- sninctown, May 25 2021 Isn't that like a kaleidoscope? At least my invention holds the potential for useability.-- pocmloc, May 26 2021 Usability on the halfbakery is barely an asset, meanwhile I suggest as a modification independent rotation speeds, directions and timings for the individual lenses. [food for thought +]-- xenzag, May 26 2021 //independent rotation speeds, directions and timings// Now you're taking it too far, that would be silly.-- pocmloc, May 26 2021 //no// [+]-- Voice, May 26 2021 //independent rotation speeds, directions and timings for the individual lenses.//
For when you're not quite up to the desired level of nausea.-- bs0u0155, May 26 2021 Is the rotation parallel to the frame of the glasses, or do the lenses rotate around a fixed horizontal diameter? I mean, either way: croissant.-- calum, May 26 2021 //Can you make up a convincing reason why someone would use these? — a1, May 25 2021
No, why? — pocmloc, May 25 2021//
Bun for those annos alone. [+]-- doctorremulac3, May 26 2021 [Calum] the user's field of view rotates around an axis parallel to the direction of their gaze. Rotating around any other axis would be silly.-- pocmloc, May 26 2021 Having them in sync would be more nauseating than having them be independent, as your brain would just interpret the latter as visual noise I suspect.
It might be interesting to find out if you could adapt to having one lens upside down and one right side up though.-- RayfordSteele, May 26 2021 Okay, then train both sides upside down, and then flip one.-- RayfordSteele, May 26 2021 //Rotating around any other axis would be silly.//
Rotating around any other axis would be difficult (because you'ld need data streamed from a remote device which might have to manoeuvre rapidly in congested spaces) and dangerous (because you couldn't see where you were going, also, see previous point) but possibly awesome in certain circumstances. Maybe this could be combined with the idea about motor racing where the car can turn but the driver can't.-- pertinax, May 27 2021 //Rotating around any other axis would be difficult//
Try rotating it around the z axis-- bs0u0155, May 27 2021 Okay, (+), but why would my heid spin?-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 27 2021 This could be marketed as an intelligence booster. Learning a new language forces new brain connections which enhances brain function, general intelligence and defends against age-related degeneration. Wearing Rotary Goggles also forces new brain connections and therefore surely has the same benefits? To coin a phrase, //I don’t have a clue. What do YOU think would happen?//-- pocmloc, May 27 2021 //what do you think would happen?//
Headaches. And I think I'd rip the goggles off.
I'm not sure you'd come out any smarter. That's a different part of the brain that would start wanting to hog resource space, so dumber is not completely inconceivable. I could ask my neurologist researcher friend in Austria and see what he says.-- RayfordSteele, May 27 2021 Maybe not smarter, but probably lighter. It could be marketed as a weight loss aid.-- neutrinos_shadow, May 27 2021 Would this idea help specialists such astronauts, fighter pilots or even in disorientating situations like a helicopter ditching in water?
One disorientated step for man , another possible logic frame for mankind.-- wjt, May 28 2021 Not sure. Maybe if coordinated with inertial simulators?-- RayfordSteele, May 29 2021 //Would this idea help specialists such astronauts, fighter pilots or even in disorientating situations like a helicopter ditching in water?//
Maybe it could desensitize people with motion sickness.-- Voice, May 29 2021 That's for the master championship league, drive the circuit in a non-rotating vehicle while wearing these goggles.-- pocmloc, May 29 2021 //Can you make up a convincing reason why someone would use these?// — a1, May 25 2021
If he could this would be another website and you would be lost.-- blissmiss, May 31 2021 //One disorientated step for man , another possible logic frame for mankind.//
Shirley [marked-for-tagline]-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 01 2021 random, halfbakery