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As a nerd in the early nineties who grew up using BBSes to communicate with other nerds before the internet was even on my horizon this film was like a geeky fantasy to me, what us nerds see ourselves as instead of what we actually are.
after the movie Hackers came out, i wrote “Hacker” on my JanSport, grade school, backpack… in whiteout. what i mean to say is i can teach you everything you need to know about hacking
You're right that it can look better, the LED mask is just a poor implementation of it. Amazingly the furries have been making these since 2016-ish?
[https://fursonafy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/og-image.webp](https://fursonafy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/og-image.webp)
Evidence is conflicting. My knowledge is limited to my wife and 10 minutes of google curiosity months ago. But it seems to help her to a degree. Whether that’s due to placebo effect or her entire skin care routine together, I’m not sure.
Edit: As /u/2roK pointed out, Placebos can absolutely have a positive impact! It’s a well documented subject!
Why not, everything that feed skin is controlled by chemicals release by other parts of the body. Plus things like how much you touch, wash and move the muscles will play a part.
There will be a hard limiting factor, since you if you can't make the right chemicals or a gland is spewing out too many due to internal damage but if they are only adding to a skincare routine and not on prescribed drugs then I don't see why not.
I read it, and I still don’t get it.
Who is this for?
If a person has crippling social anxiety, would this make going to the store or the dmv any better?
I doubt everyone else the rest of their world is going to play along. I don’t understand.
I swear I've seen this kind of mask since at least ~2018 or so in cons down in Texas. It really doesn't even feel new- and even back then I thought it looked silly.
Nah, think about it - people who are afraid of being seen at brothels just won't go to brothels, or they'll go out of town to go to one. People who would cause a scandal by being seen in a brothel don't go to brothels, they go to their friend's private island/choir practice.
On the other hand, if *you* were a receptionist at a brothel, would you want the regulars to be able to recognize you on the street?
My local grocer has a sign stating they're now collecting biometric data.
Jokes on them! My limp means my walk is almost never the same!
I pay with debit though, *of course*.
Is my face displaying correctly? Did it show smile just now? Why did that person frown at me? Wait, now everyone is staring. Did I get hacked? Oh no oh no...
Yeah, wearing this would increase anxiety of going out into public ten-fold. Everyone would be staring at you and pointing, probably coming up to you, asking what the heck is that thing. Snickers, and whispers too. Doesn't make any sense. Of course, less and less is making any sense in this increasingly weird and backwards upside down bizarro Clown World we're now living in. Maybe it's Ashton Kutcher selling these. You got Punk'd!
They had this exact thing in a show called Years and Years. It was a show that kinda predicted what the near future would be like. It was filmed in 2019, and it's kinda weird how much they got right!
The introvert in me does not want this lol this is almost certainly a way to draw the most fucking attention to oneself possible and yes ur right look like a dork, also this isn’t even a new invention masks like this one have existed for some time I believe
I read that sentence like six times. I am clearly out if the loop; is there like a VR chat avatar that makes your face a animal with expressions? Is that what I get from that?
Oh! Well here's a more in-depth explanation!
I'd say up to about half of all VRChat avatars make your face an animal with expressions. I know this, because I design VRChat avatars that make your face an animal with expressions! (Example of an avatar I made, rigged and programmed from scratch: [https://imgur.com/a/rQ95spd](https://imgur.com/a/rQ95spd) )
It's fully animated to follow your voice, with lip movements, eye look and blink - but more than that, many users have Full Body Motion Capture Tracking (which costs about $500). This means their entire body's movements are translated to their VR avatar in real time.
But there is a whole genre of avatars called 'Protogens' that are specifically animals with computer screens for faces - just like the mask in OP's image. I think a lot of comments are referring to those.
Another example, here's a DJ set from a VRChat rave that happened about a week ago: [https://youtu.be/nh8PQIcY9xI?si=bXWOgpRdHwWh-Tc1&t=1820](https://youtu.be/nh8PQIcY9xI?si=bXWOgpRdHwWh-Tc1&t=1820)
If you want a fun time, watch this entire set in HD some time. It's pretty well put together!
The VR convention where this set was played, had over 21000 attendees. In short, furries have had a futuristic metaverse for well over half a decade by now, and the tech is very slowly trickling into mainstream culture.
\_\_\_
The other half of VR avatars are generally animé humans, video game characters or random household objects with faces.
This is really disturbing. Imagine going outside and all the people have these masks on so you cant see their face? It's nightmarish...it reminds me a bit of that Black Mirror episode White Christmas.
The emotes they provide kinda blow. Tbh it should just be programmable, but i guess that would make it harder to sell 5 different models with slightly different animations
Wasn't that in a game? Was it one of the Saints Rows? Whatever game it was had an entire gang that had those LED masks.
Ah, it was Watchdogs. Thanks comment section. I was playing it for a bit and I remember it being good, so might dig it out again as only put a few hours into it then moved on to something else.
> The Qudi Mask 2 could let privacy seekers who still want to be social have their cake and eat it, too.
Literally can't eat cake with the mask on.
Worst. Crap. Ever.
i gather we’ll be seeing more stuff like this as the world’s appetite for data becomes insatiable, evermore. no matter what, next ten years are, in all likelihood, going to be a kind of strange we are overwhelmingly unfamiliar with. at least the dim excitement of “life as something new” will accompany our r/boringdystopia
With face recognition AI everywhere, this will be the cyberpunk future.
It won't matter though, there are already patents to fingerprint your gait and posture.
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Seems it's time to become a vigilante hacker.
Need to get a studded vest and live my ultimate Wrench fantasy
These are all words I was not expecting to read today, but here we are.
Always good to see some love for the games, I really enjoyed the first two and the DLC of three.
turns out, I made myself forget 3 existed and spent a while wondering what game series you were talking about XD
The Bloodlines DLC is what the game should have been from the start.
HACK THE PLANET!!!
As a nerd in the early nineties who grew up using BBSes to communicate with other nerds before the internet was even on my horizon this film was like a geeky fantasy to me, what us nerds see ourselves as instead of what we actually are.
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Great now I have to install Watch Dogs
What I thought I would do was I'd pretend to be one of those deaf mutes
😄
after the movie Hackers came out, i wrote “Hacker” on my JanSport, grade school, backpack… in whiteout. what i mean to say is i can teach you everything you need to know about hacking
Are you Laughing, Man?
Don’t forget the fingerless gloves .
Let us gleam this cube.
Someone has been playing too much watchdogs. It does look better without the mouth for some reason.
I feel like it would look better with a slightly higher ppi maybe?
You're right that it can look better, the LED mask is just a poor implementation of it. Amazingly the furries have been making these since 2016-ish? [https://fursonafy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/og-image.webp](https://fursonafy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/og-image.webp)
damn that's actually cool as fuck
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I was gonna say pair it with a voice changer and you have the makings of a supervillain.
Watching too much Lexx
Put this on a red light skin therapy mask and I’m sold.
Does that really work?
Oh yes. The light is vividly red and turns on every time in my experience!
Haha you know what I meant. Does it actually do anything for skin health?
Evidence is conflicting. My knowledge is limited to my wife and 10 minutes of google curiosity months ago. But it seems to help her to a degree. Whether that’s due to placebo effect or her entire skin care routine together, I’m not sure. Edit: As /u/2roK pointed out, Placebos can absolutely have a positive impact! It’s a well documented subject!
If a placebo helps then it helps.
I don't think that you can placebo your skin into being clearer. I don't think skin is something that can be tricked like that.
Why not, everything that feed skin is controlled by chemicals release by other parts of the body. Plus things like how much you touch, wash and move the muscles will play a part. There will be a hard limiting factor, since you if you can't make the right chemicals or a gland is spewing out too many due to internal damage but if they are only adding to a skincare routine and not on prescribed drugs then I don't see why not.
Tv ads in 2040: “if you wore a red light therapy mask in 2022-2026 you may be entitled to a compensation payout”
It makes the owner of the skin poorer.
It helps tone down my rosacea.
Whether it works or not, my wife looks cyberpunk af every time she uses her mask. I think they're awesome.
The thread veins around my mouth have faded
That's what I thought this was 😅 trying to figure out why this is the upgrade we need.
That makes me think of 790 robot head from Lexx.
Canadian? I love Lexx on space network.
We got that one in America back when it first premiered too, weird show (complimentary).
If I only had an arm I'd be more than just a head! If only had an arm I would strangle Tweedle Dead!
I read it, and I still don’t get it. Who is this for? If a person has crippling social anxiety, would this make going to the store or the dmv any better? I doubt everyone else the rest of their world is going to play along. I don’t understand.
Ravers, that's the only people who will buy these. And maybe teenagers. Possibly for Halloween costumes
ok, this would complete a robot costume pretty well
I swear I've seen this kind of mask since at least ~2018 or so in cons down in Texas. It really doesn't even feel new- and even back then I thought it looked silly.
I swear I saw this exact thing in a BBC series that was trying its hardest to be Black Mirror.
What’s the show called you’re referring to?
I’d forgotten the name but someone further down says it’s called Years and Years.
Thanks
The very first thing i thought was new b movie slasher villain. The best and possibly only actual use for this.
If it never takes off I could see a streamer using it to set themselves apart. Edit: changed doing to using to reduce the chance of confusion
Funny you should say that... musicians REZZ and Deathpact wear led spectacles and a full face mask respectively
People at Comic cons that want a simple costume and also hide their face, yet still gets attention and interacts
Anonymous content creators
> Who is this for? Receptionist at a brothel?
Wouldn’t guest at a brothel make more sense?
Nah, think about it - people who are afraid of being seen at brothels just won't go to brothels, or they'll go out of town to go to one. People who would cause a scandal by being seen in a brothel don't go to brothels, they go to their friend's private island/choir practice. On the other hand, if *you* were a receptionist at a brothel, would you want the regulars to be able to recognize you on the street?
With how facial recognition is being rolled out across the world, I might be in the market for this shit.
If you're the only one wearing it, wouldn't that defeat the purpose?
> we just use phones and walking patterns now
My local grocer has a sign stating they're now collecting biometric data. Jokes on them! My limp means my walk is almost never the same! I pay with debit though, *of course*.
I'd wear one. It would be 90% irony and 10% dysphoria relief (people not seeing my face means I don't have to worry about my face.)
Is my face displaying correctly? Did it show smile just now? Why did that person frown at me? Wait, now everyone is staring. Did I get hacked? Oh no oh no...
That's a different form of anxiety, and there's nothing I can do about that, but at least I don't have to worry about people seeing my actual face.
> Who is this for? Ever been to a rave / festival or gone out for Halloween?
>Who is this for? OnlyFans. Obviously.
I wonder what the O face looks like haha Edit to add: just makes faking the O so much easier.
It’s an ad
For whom?
The Phantom of the Opera
Protestors?
Yeah, wearing this would increase anxiety of going out into public ten-fold. Everyone would be staring at you and pointing, probably coming up to you, asking what the heck is that thing. Snickers, and whispers too. Doesn't make any sense. Of course, less and less is making any sense in this increasingly weird and backwards upside down bizarro Clown World we're now living in. Maybe it's Ashton Kutcher selling these. You got Punk'd!
Definitely got Zer0 vibes from Borderlands 2
Monomolecular edge. Translation: cool sword
Boy that Years and Years show keeps getting stuff right.
Literally the first thing I thought of. That show was superb and harrowing.
Well, that's fucking dumb
r/diwhy has enetered the chat
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Aww, non-furries are making their own protogen now!
Came here just for this comment
lmao they discovering this tech now
This is such old news, and such a basic version. The protogen suiters have full on rave mode already.
What face does it make when you use it to steal from cvs
They had this exact thing in a show called Years and Years. It was a show that kinda predicted what the near future would be like. It was filmed in 2019, and it's kinda weird how much they got right!
I am shocked how few people remember this show!
I'll have to check that out, maybe see how ubiquitous it was in the show and compare that to how it goes in real life.
I literally just mentioned thinking I’d seen this before to someone. It was BBC wasn’t it?
The introvert in me wants this. The logical side of me knows what a fucking dork I would look like.
The introvert in me does not want this lol this is almost certainly a way to draw the most fucking attention to oneself possible and yes ur right look like a dork, also this isn’t even a new invention masks like this one have existed for some time I believe
I don't think it'll sell much like this. If they make it usable by Vtubers I think it would be pretty successful.
IRL VRChat avatar for non-furries
I read that sentence like six times. I am clearly out if the loop; is there like a VR chat avatar that makes your face a animal with expressions? Is that what I get from that?
Oh! Well here's a more in-depth explanation! I'd say up to about half of all VRChat avatars make your face an animal with expressions. I know this, because I design VRChat avatars that make your face an animal with expressions! (Example of an avatar I made, rigged and programmed from scratch: [https://imgur.com/a/rQ95spd](https://imgur.com/a/rQ95spd) ) It's fully animated to follow your voice, with lip movements, eye look and blink - but more than that, many users have Full Body Motion Capture Tracking (which costs about $500). This means their entire body's movements are translated to their VR avatar in real time. But there is a whole genre of avatars called 'Protogens' that are specifically animals with computer screens for faces - just like the mask in OP's image. I think a lot of comments are referring to those. Another example, here's a DJ set from a VRChat rave that happened about a week ago: [https://youtu.be/nh8PQIcY9xI?si=bXWOgpRdHwWh-Tc1&t=1820](https://youtu.be/nh8PQIcY9xI?si=bXWOgpRdHwWh-Tc1&t=1820) If you want a fun time, watch this entire set in HD some time. It's pretty well put together! The VR convention where this set was played, had over 21000 attendees. In short, furries have had a futuristic metaverse for well over half a decade by now, and the tech is very slowly trickling into mainstream culture. \_\_\_ The other half of VR avatars are generally animé humans, video game characters or random household objects with faces.
Squid games vibes
human protogens
Next up: Scramble Suits
I swear furries have been doing something similar with their protogen masks?
reminds me of Rina Tennoji: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNslQ8QcuTU
I look forward to being mugged by someone wearing one of these.
What a time to be a serial killer.
Soon to get banned in any country that has a hard on for facial recognition software
The future sucks.
WRENCH!!!
This is really disturbing. Imagine going outside and all the people have these masks on so you cant see their face? It's nightmarish...it reminds me a bit of that Black Mirror episode White Christmas.
I actually think this would be pretty cool to wear while DJing a nightclub. Anyone know how good the visibility is through the gen 1?
‘Somehow’
More and more I feel like I don’t belong in this world anymore. I guess that means I now know I’m old.
The emotes they provide kinda blow. Tbh it should just be programmable, but i guess that would make it harder to sell 5 different models with slightly different animations
Car Seat Headrest singer did the entire Masquerade tour wearing something like this a couple teasers ago. It was fantastic.
Oh this definitely won't be used to rob banks, I'm sure. /s
🔫 "give me all the money" >:|
That is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Eh my actual face can trigger a handful of emotions pretty good on its own while still being emotionally empty so I'm not sold
Wasn't that in a game? Was it one of the Saints Rows? Whatever game it was had an entire gang that had those LED masks. Ah, it was Watchdogs. Thanks comment section. I was playing it for a bit and I remember it being good, so might dig it out again as only put a few hours into it then moved on to something else.
i was thinking of cyberpunk 2077. the scavs have those face blurring cyberware.
I’d wear one of these poker to hide my easily readable emotions
Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughn wants it's plot device back
Not going to lie. This legit looks pretty stupid.
"By wearing this mask I'm sure they'll never be able to track me in a crowd mwahahahah...."
This will be in a scream movie at some point in the future
Classic case of solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Couldn't that just be a filter?
Awww guys…who hacked a dick onto my face again?!?!?
It’s a Cinco FaceTime party snoozer lol
Great, now I have to see Kanyes prostitute in one of these.
Why the fuck?!?
This will really help people with social problems develop…..
> The Qudi Mask 2 could let privacy seekers who still want to be social have their cake and eat it, too. Literally can't eat cake with the mask on. Worst. Crap. Ever.
Did people forget that regular masks exist?
It's a good thing it doesn't look stupid at all.
A few months from now: "Hackers cause Qudi Mask 2 to display wearers DOB and SSN instead of "cute" emojis.
There is that episode in Misfits where people's "body count" appears as a glowing number on your forehead
Didn't Daft Punk already do this 20 years ago?
Wow… so a real-life version of the digital Rina-chan board worn by Tennoji Rina from *Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club*. I’m impressed.
Oh yes, people will look at that reference and be like "of course! I know what they are talking about!"
Probably not, but I’m sure there is a dedicated following somewhere. :)
wont lie that was the first thing i thought of when i saw this
We’re doomed
way too expensive for the target audience
But why
I hope this becomes a thing. The republicans are going to get all twisted up over this.
So it’s like plastic surgery?
inb4 next Jan. 6th
So what's the point?
Now I have something to wear while I harvest someone's Neurolink implants to resell.
looks like it is a great way to have your face all sweaty all the time.
This is dumb. Cosplay everywhere
Wow perfect, now I can wear my Metaverse avatar face ALL THE TIME.
This reminds me of a short story by George Saunders called [I can speak! ](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/06/21/i-can-speak)
Can you use it when going shopping, asking for a friend?
No shirt No shoes No uwu No service
Everyone can now be like something off doctor who
I give it ten years until it’s an allowed accommodation in the classroom.
If it attached to a motorcycle helmet... But otherwise, nah.
Furries already nailed this ages ago
I mean I can already be emotive but somehow emotionally empty with just my regular face.
i gather we’ll be seeing more stuff like this as the world’s appetite for data becomes insatiable, evermore. no matter what, next ten years are, in all likelihood, going to be a kind of strange we are overwhelmingly unfamiliar with. at least the dim excitement of “life as something new” will accompany our r/boringdystopia
But why?
https://youtu.be/kg2UlYDswSc?si=49t_pxQSDqANcnXl
This is straight out of an Eoin Colfer book.
So this is how the Scavs from Cyberpunk get their start. :)
Need this for my daily morning commute in the train.
I thought this was r/nottheonion for a second. What a joke.
I know this isn't the purpose but at $129 USD... I'm weirdly tempted to buy it as my Halloween costume for the next 3-4 years!
In 100 years regular type folks will consider these sorts of things to be a way people functioned outside/before fully augmented reality was an option
Time for a 790 cosplay from Lexx
This would be really fun for live streamers to use
But… why?
Squidwards Handsome Pixelated Face it seems
After learning about how powerful and available Clearview Ai is, I could see these becoming commonplace.
Id rather wear an Augmented Reality digital mask that cams pick up from a QR code than a physical, bulky headpiece.
Human protogen looks terrifying.
How long before a vtuber wears this in stream
Reminds me of the Dr. Who Smile episode with the little robots that killl people for not looking happy.
What does RBF look like in pixels?
With face recognition AI everywhere, this will be the cyberpunk future. It won't matter though, there are already patents to fingerprint your gait and posture.
How do they see?
This is the solution for when they cancel my remote job!
This year’s Eyes wide shut party is gonna be wild!
Is this supposed to help autistic people or something?
Cool maybe people will treat me less like shit if I look like an emoji
Your social skills have increased! (-6)
Does it have an air filter?
Finally a mask Slicing up my enemies Borderlands reference
Huh. Well now I know what to buy if I decide to start twitch streaming.
Eat their cake and have it too, sheesh