Steve Mann explains the EyeTap

Name: Steve Mann explains the EyeTap
Uploaded: 2010-01-16T18:24:07Z
Duration: 6 min 39 s
Channel: Daniel Chen
Description: Steve Mann, the wearable computing researcher, explains the EyeTap, a head-worn device that captures the wearer's view and re-displays it to the eye. He covers what it is for and how it differs from a simple heads-up display. HN people use it as the source on wearable AR, especially in Glass and real-world ad-blocking threads, where Mann's decades of earlier work get pointed out.

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Steve Mann, the wearable computing researcher, explains the EyeTap, a head-worn device that captures the wearer's view and re-displays it to the eye. He covers what it is for and how it differs from a simple heads-up display.

HN people use it as the source on wearable AR, especially in Glass and real-world ad-blocking threads, where Mann's decades of earlier work get pointed out.

“If you're into this stuff, check out Steve Mann, who's been doing wearable tech since the 80's”

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@riedel2021 · in “You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?”

See also link or watch Steve Mann's explaination what the ey tap is good for: ▶ this video I guess unfortunately the holo lense and alike will be rather used to inject ads to reality

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@johnpolacek2012 · in “Google Announces Project Glass”

If you're into this stuff, check out Steve Mann, who's been doing wearable tech since the 80's: link ▶ this video

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@bird08612025 · in “Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses”

▶ this video link Dr Steve Mann who eventually led the Google Glass team (along with Dr Thad Starner, who like Mann was also a frequent poster in the MIT wearhard mailing list) did this ages ago with a system he and his students called Eyetap. Mann is famous for among other things being probably the first person to be roughed up for being borged out. link link

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@aspenmayer2025 · in “Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses”

Awesome that you got to meet him, I remember reading about EyeTap on Slashdot around that time and thought he was onto something. link) Steve Mann explains the EyeTap (2010) ▶ this video 43 Years of Wearable Computing and AR | Steve Mann | AR in Action (2017) link From 1996: Meet the man who invented a wearable computer link DEF CON 7 - Steve Mann: The Inventor of the So Called Wearable Computer (1999) link At around 5:05 in this video, someone is asking: "What type of irresponsible uses do you see for this technology, professor?" "Uh, I think, like, advertising. Like that, that type of thing. One of the things that I'm trying to do is, is design filters to filter out advertising, so that when you're walking around, you could filter out real world spam. You know, already we have spam in the real world such as billboards, and things like that. So, what I envision is that the mediated reality could be used to filter out the spam."

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