Saw this in technomads. Not necessarily crypto, but certainly privacy related... Cheers, Bob Hettinga
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 19:11:08 -0500 From: Steve Mann <steve@media.mit.edu> To: technomads@ucsd.edu Subject: NetCam; Wearable WebCam, etc Cc: steve@media.mit.edu
I am an amateur television (ATV) hobbyist, interested in things like driving radio-controlled cars using a head mounted display (HMD) (which involves putting myself into the ``usual'' perspective of the car), or playing tennis with an HMD linked to a stand mounted camera (which is exactly the opposite: the radiocar is like a flight simulator from the cockpit, while the tennis example is like switching to the ``control tower''). I've also been interested in wearable photographic equipment (such as a wearable 2400J flashlamp I use for ``lightpainting'').
More recently, I've become interested in sending and receiving video (and digital stills) over the WWW (e.g. Wearable WebCam, and WebCar -- radiocar on the WWW).
I would like to hear from any other ATV hobbyists, people into packet radio, and those interested in wearable cameras, and combining wearable cameras with wearable computing. Another application I was interested in was wearable vision (e.g. for the visually impaired, or simply to augment the regular human visual system).
Therefore, I've started a new mailing list, ``netcam@media.mit.edu'', to discuss issues related to wearable cameras, as well as communications and computation issues associated with wearable cameras. I am also interested in some of the privacy issues associated with wearable cameras (as I touch on in http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~steve), and the social implications of a society in which there are ubiquitous cameras (both wearable and fixed) connected to various high speed communications networks.
If you would like to be added to netcam@media.mit.edu, please email netcam-request@media.mit.edu
--steve
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