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Introduction: What is lookpainting

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