What in the world is the Gakken WORLDEYE?

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7 жыл бұрын

Made for the Japanese market - it's a video projector inside a globe. Whilst the supplied videos are made for the Japanese educational market - you can add your own clips and a guide explaining how to warp these for the convex screen can be found here: bit.ly/2x9kNcw
Below are some affiliate links to buy a Worldeye (You’ll be importing from Japan - so turn on international search and you may also end up paying duties)
ebay UK: ebay.to/2pLY7bh
ebay US: ebay.to/2pM5AqE
ebay CA: ebay.to/2pM5kYz
ebay DE: ebay.to/2pyWJ0i
ebay AU: ebay.to/2qgP4D4
ebay NL: ebay.to/2qgeuQY
ebay AT: ebay.to/2qgkpWm
Amazon UK: amzn.to/2qg6BLG
Amazon US: amzn.to/2pLqg31
Prices vary wildly...so choose a seller carefully as they are all offering the same device.
------NEW VIDEOS FOR THE WORLDEYE-----
Anders Enger Jensen's new (Japanese free) globe videos can be downloaded from here: bit.ly/2qKCn4o
The videos are:
Aquarium
Aurora Borealis
Clouded Earth
Earth
Eye Of Sauron
Jupiter
Moon
Sun
If you want to know how to warp your own videos into convex displays suitable for the Gakken Worldeye, here is an excellent guide provided by subscriber and channel Patreon
'Toasterking' bit.ly/2x9kNcw
----OTHER VIDEOS MENTIONED-----
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The Miraball: • A look at the Mira Bal...
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@Kuraio 7 жыл бұрын

Would be interesting for a teardown video

@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын

Opening it up would be a destructive process as it's held together with the melted black plastic rivets you can see around the circumference. I can say what I'd expect to see though: a circuit board attached to a pico projector.

@djmips 7 жыл бұрын

a little tape and it's as good as new. I'd really love to see inside one. Maybe this will force me to buy one...

@rarrawer 7 жыл бұрын

Maybe a bunch of people could each chip in ~$10 of the ~$250 price and have one sent to one of the channels that specialize in electronics teardowns? (EEVBlog for example) Though the only part that is really going to be very interesting is probably the optics. Like TM said, it looks like a picoprojector with a built-in screen in an unusual case.

@jo2lovid 7 жыл бұрын

BigClive will have it in bits in no time flat. If he can put it back together is another story. Just don't mention a Easter bunny!

@SianaGearz 7 жыл бұрын

I'm curious to what the optics looks like. The brightness distribution and coverage density is surprisingly good. And yeah Clive is your guy, not the whiny Australian!

@SDWNJ 7 жыл бұрын

It kind of looks like a 1950s vision of what TV might be like in 2017.

@peter-william 7 жыл бұрын

agreed

@benwinter2420 7 жыл бұрын

Just in reverse , like with this wrap around caper , but the orb looks cooler

@BillAnt 6 жыл бұрын

It's a cyclops... he-he

@alphayun7401 6 жыл бұрын

honestly if tv was an orb like that it would be annoying though if it was a hologram projection like in sci-fi that would be good

@Elfnetdesigns 6 жыл бұрын

The jetsons

@PauloOliveira-uq1yk 7 жыл бұрын

A Techmoan masterclass, as always. You start the video thinking "why in the hell I need to have this", and ends like "Where do I buy it". Amazing.

@NiekopTube 6 жыл бұрын

After reading this comment I skipped most of the nonsense video and went to the END... not one of my brain cells is asking: "Where do I buy it?" Not so amazing; is Gakken already bankrupt?

@eekee6034 2 жыл бұрын

I was all "Where do I buy it?" the moment it appeared on-screen. With the right video files or computer setup, it would be a great lounge talking-piece!

@BadvisionStudios 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes... My wallet has become noticeably lighter, thanks to Technomoan! (Awaiting my Superscope CD Recorder at the moment!)

@davido.7807 5 жыл бұрын

As an extra monitor, above, and to the right, just for my mini-map.

@MrShedom8 4 жыл бұрын

That would be the ultimate gaming setup

@zachary4376 4 жыл бұрын

That's a really cool idea

@Rileydoesstuff 3 жыл бұрын

You need to see your enemies at all times

@TheEmeraldMenOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

That’s an amazing idea. Civilization or any other global strategy game would be awesome with it.

@CarLoverPhotography 3 жыл бұрын

Yess

@brettcameratraveler 4 жыл бұрын

Some 360 video cameras have a 180 mode. This seems like a fun way to play those videos back.

@TheCyndicate. 7 жыл бұрын

It needs a picture or video of an eyeball.

@akoww1000 4 жыл бұрын

was thinking that too and LOTR fanboys would love it lol

@OphiuchiChannel 4 жыл бұрын

@General Malaise LMAO

@gustavgnoettgen 4 жыл бұрын

👁️

@jollygoodshow 4 жыл бұрын

2 eyeballs could make anything look alive... A wall with eyes?

@THEMADPROFdj 4 жыл бұрын

I was coming here to say the same thing

@shadowgiratinasevilclone1357 7 жыл бұрын

it's got a HDMI port. I MUST play DOOM on it, no exceptions.

@stuffhappensdownsouth9899 7 жыл бұрын

i know i just wanna hook a video card up to it an see what it can do

@RalphInRalphWorld 7 жыл бұрын

Shadow Giratina's Evil Clone There are some hacks of Quake that let you play in weird projections. I imagine 180 degree fov would look wild on this screen! Edit: Oh, seems like Crazzzzzzzziesandus beat me to it.

@johndoherty5973 7 жыл бұрын

link to doom vid

@MIW_Renegade 6 жыл бұрын

Shadow Giratina's Evil Clone same

@philb1516 6 жыл бұрын

Pr0n...

@bloodypommelstudios7144 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really impressed with how well the image wraps around without distorting or degrading in quality.

@DJEylisium 7 жыл бұрын

a 4K version of this would be pretty damn sweet!

@alkestos 2 жыл бұрын

And expensive. Sorry to reply to 4 year old comment, I couldn't help myself.

@jansalomin Жыл бұрын

@@alkestos That's what makes the internet amazing, no need to feel sorry

@driewiel 7 жыл бұрын

Is there also a flat version for flat earthers?

@SeriousPotatoBot 7 жыл бұрын

Yea, its called a flat screen. ; )

@djhaloeight 7 жыл бұрын

seriouis potatobot 😂😂😂

@paologagliardi6205 7 жыл бұрын

Best comment ever

@purrbox7514 6 жыл бұрын

2 people just won at youtube, in the same thread, that's rarer than a Googlewhack!

@Atarijmike77 5 жыл бұрын

lol nice

@bruno3833 7 жыл бұрын

They should have made Saurons eye video, so you can have Palantir in your hands

@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын

We've got one for it. It's included in the new videos created by Anders.

@Milnoc 7 жыл бұрын

Get two projectors and put an eyeball in each one! That should creep out people big time! :-)

@South_Texas_Fail 7 жыл бұрын

@Francois Caron I like the way you think.

@rambledogs2012 7 жыл бұрын

And have them in the front room window looking out at night. maybe attach a sensor so it follows movement.

@rambledogs2012 7 жыл бұрын

Damn I didnt look at your reply yet we both came up with the same idea.

@user-cb8ow9ed7y 6 жыл бұрын

日本の物を時々紹介して頂き日本人として嬉しいです。自分はオーディオ関係が好きで動画を見ていて貴方のチャンネルにたどり着きました。英語は全然判りませんが、映像を見ているだけでも面白いので、また見に来ます。「google翻訳を使っているので間違っていたら申し訳ございません。」 ↓↓ Sometimes I introduce things in Japan and I am happy as a Japanese. I liked the audio relationship and I was watching movies and reached your channel. I do not understand English at all, but just watching the video is fun, I will come to see it again. "I am sorry if I am wrong because I am using google translation."

@janderson1008 6 жыл бұрын

結月うまる so des ne

@markmarkofkane8167 5 жыл бұрын

I love Japanese innovation. :)

@bryanpaulmyers03 4 жыл бұрын

結月うまる hi from America!

@DerAlfredman 4 жыл бұрын

nice

@harmlesscreationsofthegree1248 4 жыл бұрын

If you rotate it 90 degrees you can take it out to change positions without unplugging everything...

@slickstretch6391 4 жыл бұрын

Came for this.

@dk14929 4 жыл бұрын

Nutted for this

@Espartanica 4 жыл бұрын

I orgasmed once for every letter in this comment, and then shat my pants in pure ecstasy

@ChrisMelville 4 жыл бұрын

Espartanica Made me laugh out loud!

@quicksand4089 3 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@charliepotatoes001 7 жыл бұрын

Ad a Touch screen feature to the Globe screen and you've got a really cool learning tool that could easily be attached to a Single Board Computer.

@OofusTwillip 7 жыл бұрын

It begs for footage of Auntie Em looking for Dorothy, and then being replaced by the Wicked Witch of the West.

@collinhunter9792 3 жыл бұрын

oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@slickstretch6391 4 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine if someone came over to watch TV and you turned this thing on? LOL

@tjhill0110 7 жыл бұрын

4:50 Stu has always been my favourite planet.

@ShhmichaelW 5 жыл бұрын

I think he is saying 地球 (chikyuu), but it really does sound like stu.

@xavier6130 5 жыл бұрын

4:51 _butter_

@MikehMike01 3 жыл бұрын

@@xavier6130 doesn’t sound like butter at all idiot

@raxorbin 7 жыл бұрын

Have you tried playing 180° footage on it ?

@jjpaycheck 7 жыл бұрын

raxorbin you're a genius!

@butterfinger4393 7 жыл бұрын

raxorbin 180*

@AndersEngerJensen 7 жыл бұрын

From dabbling with the footage for Techmoan prior to the release, I can tell you that it will still need some processing. Any 360° content will have to be cut in two, since this is just one hemisphere and not an entire globe, the entire 360° will look weirdly compressed. Secondly, we found out that since this is a flat LCD screen, it's being warped when projected via a wide angle lens. And since the distance from the center of this lens to the center point of the hemisphere compared to the distance from the sides of the lens to the sides of the hemisphere is longer, this causes flat images to bulge in the middle. As you can see on Mat's dashcam footage. That's why I needed to pinch the images that he's kindly linked in the description. This will compensate for the bulging and the material will look natural across the surface of the screen. It turned out that the standard Photoshop pinch filter at 50% was sufficient. So any 360° will also have to be pinched in the area that's being projected in the center area.

@daftbence 7 жыл бұрын

Anders Enger Jensen Hi! Thanks for helping out our favorite tech channels on youtube with music and vids :D

@AndersEngerJensen 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! :)

@Pandaoniman 3 жыл бұрын

That dashcam footage has a classic Dr. Who crystal ball feel to it.

@uzaiyaro 7 жыл бұрын

You would need a computer to this, and you would need to do some serious programming, but I see a really really cool thing being done with one of these - playing satellites is one thing. Current locations of satellites are easily obtainable as coordinates data. You could click on the satellite you're interested in (say the space station) and it will show on the worldeye, what that perspective is in real time. What they're seeing up there, you're seeing the same thing down here on the worldeye. You could also import data from weather satellites and have them overlaid on the globe. You could fuck around with stars. The possibilities for cool effects are endless, just a question of who's smart enough to do it. :P

@GarryGri 4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't need to be connected to a full computer, just build something like a PI-Zero W into a USB Stick case.

@radarmusen 7 жыл бұрын

You could put it in a space helmet to Halloween and have a scary face projected. I think Gakken also makes electronic educational kits.

@krmusick 7 жыл бұрын

Hey, who turned out the lights?

@johnbernard6734 7 жыл бұрын

Not Equal 😭

@AndersEngerJensen 7 жыл бұрын

Neat! Glad it worked with the processing. Bit of a hit and miss really, but sometimes we hit the jackpot by chance! Hope you get to use the other files in a future episode. :D Could be a much faster process if I found a plugin that did just this pinching directly, I'm sure there are someone out there who can point in the right direction, but my search for such addons yielded no results. :)

@PhilXavierSierraJones 7 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see someone tearing one apart and showing how this works!

@AndersEngerJensen 7 жыл бұрын

I guess if someone got Techmoan another one he could open up, there would be material for a follow up episode. It turned out to be locked with plastic nuts that breaks if he opens it up. But like he said below, it's most likely a small PCB board with a pico projector and a wide angle lens inside.

@joelouellette 7 жыл бұрын

Hey man! I bought your album. It's very groovy I love the music. Can't wait til the cassette arrives :)

@DaisyAjay 7 жыл бұрын

Blender has tools for creating dome projections. Shouldn't be too hard to make it convert a video without any user input.

@AndersEngerJensen 7 жыл бұрын

Joël Ouellette Glad to hear it, your copy should be well under way and soon in your mailbox. :)

@Nawmps 5 жыл бұрын

IVE NEVER WATCHED THESE TO THE END BEFORE IVE BEEN MISSING SO MUCH MY WHOLE LIFE

@TheSonicbuum 7 жыл бұрын

That was a great video! I especially enjoyed the ending sketch. Very colorful!

@djmips 7 жыл бұрын

A video game designed for this would be fun, maybe a custom version of asteroids to start

@totih144 7 жыл бұрын

either Tempest

@Omenshaper 7 жыл бұрын

djmips quake with 360 degree FoV enabled

@grumfur 7 жыл бұрын

I'd say it would be better for an immersive Roleplay Game; you can use it as a Crystal ball to show hints on something different than a flat screen or paper. But $178 is expensive and it would need to prepare video animations...

@SketchTurnerZero 7 жыл бұрын

Marble Ball ))

@mydoomfsexe 7 жыл бұрын

Talking about video games, I think a screen like this could be really cool to make an Aperture Science style animated personality core. Would be super cool to change it into a voice activated assistant by hooking it up to a PC you hide away.

@realcundo 7 жыл бұрын

Planetarium programs like Stellarium could look nice on the Worldeye. Never tried but I think it supports spherical/dome projections.

@Robert08010 7 жыл бұрын

Finally, at long last!!! it's the perfect display to show off my snow globe video collection!

@bilobolygregsmith270 4 жыл бұрын

So you really have to remove the power and stuff to move it to a different position? Why not twist it 90 degrees and then move it out?

@adhishwarmishra 3 жыл бұрын

Once its fitted in particular hole/slot, u can't rotate it. See carefully

@jaxnean2663 7 жыл бұрын

You can also display graphics generated by the music you're playing, that would be neat! I think any abstract animation would look good on this device

@saritagracia 7 жыл бұрын

eyeball video for Halloween!

@JaesadaSrisuk 7 жыл бұрын

superdupergrover Or perhaps a spooky crystal ball that sparkles or goes cloudy?

@saritagracia 7 жыл бұрын

YES ! then the fog grows thicker... BAM!! skull pops out and screams.

@JaesadaSrisuk 7 жыл бұрын

superdupergrover Stop making me want to buy this thing! Seriously though, an seamless orb made entirely of led or oled panels would be a pretty awesome toy or art piece.

@saritagracia 7 жыл бұрын

if you want the ultimate Halloween decoration that can be used the rest of the year, then get it. led version would be great, but it's never gonna happen. nobody will spend the money on special machinery to make spherical led screens for a niche product

@JaesadaSrisuk 7 жыл бұрын

superdupergrover I think I might, for both the Halloween functionality, and for this community theatre group I work with. The hemispheric display might make a great Magic Mirror in "Snow White", or I could put it in a cauldron and loop a clip of fire burning for the three witches' scene in "Hamlet". There's so many possibilities for fun and creative use of this little circular display.

@countjobula 7 жыл бұрын

hello techmoan. Id like to just say that I love your videos and style of presentation. Not only is it useful but oh boy it reminds me of tomorrow's world. 10/10

@thecaptain2281 7 жыл бұрын

Love this thing! I've ordered one! Thanks for showing it!

@thecaptain2281 7 жыл бұрын

BTW, The audio beeps at the end that sound like old modem noise at 1200baud. Is that an Easter egg waiting to be discovered?

@samiam5557 7 жыл бұрын

Release the GAKKEN!

@rumahmak1047 4 жыл бұрын

First

@Crazzzzzzzziesandus 7 жыл бұрын

You should try the 360 degree quake mod with this

@AureliusR 7 жыл бұрын

Now THIS is an awesome TechMoan video! Good on you!

@ObjectsInMotion 6 жыл бұрын

*I T ' S V E R Y J A P A N E S E*

@neilhuband995 6 жыл бұрын

I really think so

@peterrenn6341 4 жыл бұрын

@@neilhuband995 no wonder it's dark

@corlfranco9371 4 жыл бұрын

its chineese tho

@dyveira 4 жыл бұрын

When the narrator started, I fully agreed with you.

@mateusgomes2354 4 жыл бұрын

makes sense

@kay486 7 жыл бұрын

umm you dont need to unplug it to change the angle, you can just rotate it so the cables/usb goes into the one of the slots, shift it and then rotate it back

@paulhicks9399 7 жыл бұрын

kay486 exactly

@MouseGoat 7 жыл бұрын

D: you are a genuis!

@neonte13 7 жыл бұрын

o_o ... O_O This is like one of those puzzles where you finally see something that should've been obvious and just try not to swear at yourself.

@horizontaalschaalbaar9470 7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking, because the stand is, as he says, "flimsy", the plastic can bend so you can just push it to the next slot..

@roelskiunplugged1134 7 жыл бұрын

Great video and I still love the puppets in the end. Keep m coming!

@MarkMarooth 7 жыл бұрын

I had a Gakken electronics kit, it was super. Fuelled my electronics interests which has never stopped!

@thedjkay 4 жыл бұрын

You're one of the very few that I open his video randomly and don't skip 1 sec

@imaginarymask 7 жыл бұрын

might be neat for a Skype setup

@mipmipmipmipmip 7 жыл бұрын

add a steampunk case for it!

@spacethonyjamtano8356 7 жыл бұрын

You should try using this with MilkDrop or ProjectM as a music visualiser

@ronank2432 4 жыл бұрын

you can add cool shit from wallpaper engine with fiah eye wallpapers

@WizardOfAtlantis 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome device, what a cool idea. The resolution is what it is but how fun. Great video, thanks.

@davidgifford8112 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the hit!

@johnathin0061892 7 жыл бұрын

I hope someone will take this, make a new fish video and recreate Captain Picard's fish tank

@djhaloeight 7 жыл бұрын

Johnathan Geek great idea! 👍

@bobwoolcock 7 жыл бұрын

Clever but leaves me wanting for a full globe with 4k res and induction power coupling for the internal projector. Live satellite imaging. I guess it wouldn't need to spin like your other globe. Or...

@greenaum 7 жыл бұрын

It's basically a small projector and a plastic hemisphere. You could make your own. The resolution seems fine though for what it is. Inductive power only works over a short distance. Most of the time you're better off with a wire. Or maybe a battery and a charging cradle.

@MrJibaku 7 жыл бұрын

Professional translator here. I would be happy to help you anytime you get stuck. Love your channel!

@steviegene4006 7 жыл бұрын

Great video!!

@donatj 7 жыл бұрын

I want to see a unix terminal running on it distorted to appear correct on the round screen.

@gregx5096 7 жыл бұрын

A properly-distorted Star Wars title crawl!

@Elfnetdesigns 6 жыл бұрын

Fallout PIP Boy screens or ORIGINAL War of the Worlds

@criggie 4 жыл бұрын

There's a mac program called Cathode which does some of this. apps.apple.com/us/app/cathode/id499233976?mt=12

@JasonTDolan 7 жыл бұрын

I had some kids games back in the day, remember Astro Wars and Caveman? They were consoles you held in your hand. Well I also had a Space Invaders console (handheld) that was dome shaped (screen) brings back memories from then. The Space Invaders was around 1978 and Astro Wars and Caveman around the early 1980's. I am sure you remember. Probably still have those game consoles in the loft.

@tarotoculus 6 жыл бұрын

I would have liked to see you take it apart and talk about how it is being projected. That is always the fun part.

@recordingice4388 3 жыл бұрын

The ultimate skate video format player!

@nxxxxzn 7 жыл бұрын

business idea: subscription service to a live stream of a round fish tank in Gakken video format. several bowls available with different fish types. result: looks like real fishes less the burden of keeping them alive. (mo)

@crackedemerald4930 3 жыл бұрын

That something the psychos on twitch would watch

@MikehMike01 3 жыл бұрын

another fake thing for millennials 🙄

@davidzachmeyer1957 4 жыл бұрын

I like the round remote, and the way it can be attached to the device to keep it from disappearing.

@an_what 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome review thank you

@markmarkofkane8167 5 жыл бұрын

I love those devices!! So unusual. Great video!! That is like what a 3d round screen from the 1930's may have looked like. (Minus the color)

@get-the-lead-out.4593 4 жыл бұрын

The lowest price + shipping I found on ebay was nearly 200.00 :-O Good grief and they don't even give you the simple and practical option to have the videos keep replaying themselves like their 30 second fish bowl clip ?!?!?

@ronank2432 4 жыл бұрын

get a pc and hook it as 2nd monitor

@pleaseuseOdysee 4 жыл бұрын

That's nothing I payed $500 for a used medical monitor from Eizo Worth every cent, bless the Japanese

@CampGareth 4 жыл бұрын

I was considering using this as a fun terminal but £200 is way too much for that. What are the odds of a knockoff appearing for £50 or so?

@mackinblack 4 жыл бұрын

*I think a video file of an eyeball looking around and blinking would be creepy. Especially of u had 2 or more of them.*

@Sam-lr9oi 6 жыл бұрын

This is a pretty neat little thing; if you still have it around, there's a KZfaq channel that does "videos for cats" of birds in gardens and such things that would probably be pretty neat and serve the 'moving picture frame' function pretty well. A good mantle/coffee table conversation piece (which may be the most middle aged thing I've ever proposed thus far in my life).

@Slash27015 7 жыл бұрын

Really gets me curious how one gets a product featured on your channel, Techmoan you've got a great way of reviewing it from a more humane view, with both good and bad included

@TheBrokenLife 7 жыл бұрын

I wonder what iMax home videos on that thing would look like. I got some from Netflix by mail ages ago on DVD and they were oddly skewed due to the original curved screen of the theater and they were also 4:3. Might be worth the fun to try out?

@californiadragyn 7 жыл бұрын

Maxwelhse That is an excellent idea! 😎👍

@Dan-TechAndMusic 7 жыл бұрын

If they weren't so expensive (€160+ is a little much to spend on room decoration in my budget), I'd buy one and see if I could make videos of Star Wars and Doctor Who planets slowly spinning, each planet an hour or two of footage.

@PolarisStarman 7 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Thank you!

@LiviuDragon 6 жыл бұрын

awesome video globe

@HashMagician 7 жыл бұрын

I actually loled at the puppet part

@theantithesis1 5 жыл бұрын

Watching your credits outro, I realized I have no love for worm screws. I have no idea why. They are a useful mechanical device. I need to do some soul searching.

@weltvonoben 4 жыл бұрын

That's actually really cool!

@Scobragon 7 жыл бұрын

This looks really cool, kinda wish I had money to get one, would look great in my living room, tinkering with the videos sounds like it would be great fun.

@PatrickHansen101 7 жыл бұрын

Cool gadget :) really love how even the display is. expensive and impractical idea: Make the display something like Full HD, so 1440x1440, make the surface multi-touch capable and make it able to run Google Earth, boom, interactive Globe :D

@ferkeap 7 жыл бұрын

i would try a pc output with a planatarium program, like stellarium or celestia. You can change the aspect ratio on that for projections

@ZT742 7 жыл бұрын

The puppet sketch actually made me laugh out loud! Genius!

@JeffDeWitt 7 жыл бұрын

This is one of the neater weird gadgets I've seen in a while, I might have to get one of these!

@mosilew207 7 жыл бұрын

You can add a custom resolution with a 1:1 aspect ratio (Intel and Nvidia supports it out of the box, with ATI a special software called Custom Resolution Utility).

@AndersEngerJensen 7 жыл бұрын

But you still need something that applies a 50% pinch to the image in realtime though, and it has to be from a circular mask around the center because a pinch from a square will warp the picture differently and it won't match the hemisphere shape: eox.no/public/pinch.png If you can program something that does this, it would be very much feasible. :)

@moth.monster 7 жыл бұрын

Well, saying that we know exactly what needs to be made, it wouldn't be too hard, would it?

@mosilew207 7 жыл бұрын

I think that a frameserver like Avisynth may be able to distort the video on the fly.

@Camoceltic 7 жыл бұрын

>If you can program something that does this, it would be very much feasible. :) Brainfuck exists as a programming language. I wouldn't be surprised if someone did that already just for fun.

@greenaum 7 жыл бұрын

The software would need to be a basic image mapping table. You have a table, 480x480, and each location contains an address on another 480x480 map. For each input pixel, you look up on the table where it needs to go on the output image. Then plot it there. Simple as, really. A spherical mapping table would just be a bit of cos and sin. For something like Linux it'd be easy, you could just pipe video through a program.

@10p6 7 жыл бұрын

Another cool video. Shame it does not have a higher resolution screen or analog AV input. Would be cool to replace a bedroom light with it lol

@DeathBringer769 7 жыл бұрын

There's a million HDMI-to-whatever adapters though if you wanted analog AV input. It has an HDMI input slot 3:27

@GamesFromSpace 7 жыл бұрын

Why would you need analog input? And if it did have analog inputs, a higher resolution screen wouldn't do any good.

@paulhicks9399 7 жыл бұрын

10p6 wouldn't work properly due to the curvature of the screen

@10p6 7 жыл бұрын

Depends on what you want to do display. So yes it would.

@John_Ridley 7 жыл бұрын

10 lines of resolutions, 6 frames per second? Sweet.

@JustPlainRob 6 жыл бұрын

I already knew Earth, Sun, Solar System, Mars, and a few other spacey words, but it was actually useful to finally learn the rest of the planets' names in Japanese.

@TheLetterTen 7 жыл бұрын

Twist ending! I love it!

@lanswipe 6 жыл бұрын

"It certainly draws the eye" Given it's shape, there's a pun in there somewhere..

@anthonychallis2472 7 жыл бұрын

I've really got to stop watching your videos, it's costing me a fortune. First it was the LaMetric clock now it's the Mova globe, I really wish you hadn't mentioned that in this video, now I want one. As always a great video, keep up the good work.

@DennisStewart 7 жыл бұрын

That looks like it would be fun for an in-camera practical effect for a film. Crystal ball of course. But you could build it recessed into a cabinet for some retro pulp sci-fi view screen action. Neat product, thanks for sharing.

@boarder6246 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you patron supporters! Great job helping out 👍

@rachelmarieLMT 6 жыл бұрын

The puppets are my favorite part of these videos! I love puppets (:

@famitory 7 жыл бұрын

these seem like they would have lots of application in film props/set design, as well as on stage at a concert

@killervirus57 4 жыл бұрын

I just watched a 4:35min Dr Squatch soap ad before seeing your video. It was entertaining.

@S7EVE_P 6 жыл бұрын

I really like it. I can imagine a few of these ceiling mounted in my music room playing weird images or just alternating colours.

@Vednier 7 жыл бұрын

Instead of Roku, i think, its better to connect Chromecast to it - no need to bother about menus and controls.

@MisterCOM 7 жыл бұрын

Kuribo Kutsu underated command

@MisterCOM 7 жыл бұрын

Kuribo Kutsu would it be posible to nake a custom uu for a chromecast

@AshAndCamilleMiller 4 жыл бұрын

Lord of the rings man, do the eye of Sauron (sp)?

@BoogurTWang 4 жыл бұрын

looks very cool !

@KoolAidBuzz 4 жыл бұрын

Sauron thanks you for this purchase.

@Alevamltd 7 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see this sort of projection used for a fake CRT screen.

@scotthannan8669 7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking you could use this to create starship view screens for some cheesy 1970s science-fiction movie

@ydn289 6 жыл бұрын

ok my first though when looking at the first video.. wow!! that is actually really cool!! props to japan for making innovative product that make it more fun and cool way to learn! 😄👍🏻✌👍🏻

@Kriswixx 7 жыл бұрын

thanks for the bid. This has potential, if used on a larger scale and convex. good vid. thx

@T1GWBJAH 7 жыл бұрын

considering there is a hdmi port, wouldn't it work using a raspberry pi (for space saving) to play up the custom videos? considering it should be able to loop the videos a bit easier then?

@AndersEngerJensen 7 жыл бұрын

T1GWBJAH Still the issue of pinching the image to keep it from bulging though. ;)

@TheNightquaker 7 жыл бұрын

There could be a program that converts the output into one suitable for the Worldeye.

@Felamine 7 жыл бұрын

I have faith that the Pi community will come out with a version of Raspbian that's specially formatted for this particular screen. :)

@aritakalo8011 7 жыл бұрын

real time image processor pipeline running and adapting the video on the fly? Another thing I can think of is planetarium software. Atleast some of those have projection modes for using spherical screens. Custom image generator software. First thing to come to my mind is a moving scary eye with a projection software that in real time generates the corrected image and thus moves the eye ball around on the sphere.

@M3TR01DFANBOY 7 жыл бұрын

id definitely try playing video games on it.

@EtherealIntellect 7 жыл бұрын

Should be pretty easy to do, you can even get software like OnTopReplica to make sure the game doesn't get cut off, or if you know enough programming you can modify uDesktopDuplication by hecomi to warp the image in real time so it looks ok on the round screen