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One characteristic of the Reality Mediator is that, after wearing it for
an extended period of time, one forgets that one is wearing
it, while at the same time, it provides an output
signal of whatever passes from the real world through to the human visual
system of the wearer [4].
In addition to the personal documentary
capabilities of this ``video tap'', into the visual system,
there is the possibility of creating high resolution environment maps
by standing in one place and looking around. Assuming that one can
look around faster than objects in the scene can change,
images are typically found to be in approximately the same
orbit of the projective group of coordinate
transformations [11], modulo
any changes in overall exposure level brought on by the automatic
exposure mechanism of the camera [12].
Steve Mann
1999-04-11