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Israeli company invents device that beams audio directly into your head - no headphones required
- Thread starter DiipuSurotu
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It isn't actually beaming anything, it's creating audio pockets next to your ears.
For those of you who did not read the article at all
It's really just the next gen of speakers, nothing more
It's really just the next gen of speakers, nothing more
"It's not actually poisoning you, it's placing the poison into your mouth"
I really don't see how this isn't anything more than isolated speakers.
Everyone seems to think they're going to install a hundred of these things and single out a person at a time for isolated, customized advertisements.
The reality is that the technology probably isn't anywhere close to a level where it could actually track you walking down the street and is frankly more expensive than just playing something over a basic speaker for everyone to hear. Cost/reward just doesn't make this worth it right now if ever.
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Yup, only thing it will be useful for is home entertainment setups. Would be wild having this kind of thing in a controller or handheld device though too!
It's just really fancy speakers people, it isn't beaming into your head, it's creating audio pockets and using head tracking. It would be like putting headphones on someone, but without the headphones.
and you can cover your face to stop head tracking. Hell covering your ears would probably prevent the sound bubble.
Based on the description, you can just turn your head instead. Seems easier than headphones actually...
I can see it now. 30 years from now, walking down the street shaking my head left and right over and over again, looking like a mad man because every other store has their own beaming tech lol
I wonder if car insurance companies would cover that in case of an accident.
Can't wait to be in a meeting at work and watch half of the room chuckle randomly while the other half go "You're laughing at his wig, aren't you"
Yep. Gonna be weaponized to pop people's heads like watermelons.
That and ads.
This isn't really new technology, just new engineering. It's cool and all, but being wildly overblown, here.
It's not "in your head", it's still normal sound, it's just being created through constructive interference of sound waves in an extremely specific location that makes it nearly inaudible at distance. It's likely to be mostly a novelty since I can't imagine the audio quality is that (consistently) good.
It's not "in your head", it's still normal sound, it's just being created through constructive interference of sound waves in an extremely specific location that makes it nearly inaudible at distance. It's likely to be mostly a novelty since I can't imagine the audio quality is that (consistently) good.
This. If we spent half this fucking effort trying to tackle climate change, we could actually rest easy. The world has jumped the shark. We are officially in a second gilded age of snake oil, grifters, and manipulators, all the way up through bad faith state actors.
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Ads all day, ads all night. Blowing up peoples' heads won't be good for capitalism.
but it's not going INTO your head, just bubbles next to your hears. I mean if you could make 2 high pressure giant bubbles you could probably do it, but we are a LONG ways away from that
When you turn the volume up too loud.
Also,
"This is a mandatory message from your
Again, it's not actually making the sound "inside your head", it's not generating pressure waves inside of your skull. That's just terrible reporting.
As far as I'm aware, it's just bouncing ultrasonic waves (which you can't hear) off each other and using the constructive interference to combine them into an audible soundwave, but only in the specific point in 3D space where the waves overlap exactly. The sound it generates is, at that point, a completely normal soundwave that you hear with your normal human ears.
You won't be able to hear it if your ears don't work. It won't bypass earplugs. It's not special at all. At the point where it's converted from ultrasound to audible soundwaves, it's literally just normal sound. The only thing that makes it in any way novel is that the constructive interference can be limited to only occur in a limited area of 3D space.
Unless they make the ads get stronger and stronger, louder and louder until you buy something.
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This will be amazing for alarm clocks in the morning. Waking up without disturbing your significant other!
Walk through city:
Voice in your head SHOP NOW AT S-MART - WE HAVE THE BEST PRICES IN TOWN. 3 meter away: COME TO BURGER KING HAVE IT YOUR WAY.
No thank you.
Voice in your head SHOP NOW AT S-MART - WE HAVE THE BEST PRICES IN TOWN. 3 meter away: COME TO BURGER KING HAVE IT YOUR WAY.
No thank you.
Would this work for deaf people? I imagine it would?
Also it sounds like now Project Blue Beam is in full swing!
Also it sounds like now Project Blue Beam is in full swing!
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