What in the world is the Gakken WORLDEYE?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2017
- 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
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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.
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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
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Would be interesting for a teardown video
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.
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...
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.
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!
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!
It kind of looks like a 1950s vision of what TV might be like in 2017.
agreed
Just in reverse , like with this wrap around caper , but the orb looks cooler
It's a cyclops... he-he
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
The jetsons
As an extra monitor, above, and to the right, just for my mini-map.
That would be the ultimate gaming setup
That's a really cool idea
You need to see your enemies at all times
That’s an amazing idea. Civilization or any other global strategy game would be awesome with it.
Yess
Some 360 video cameras have a 180 mode. This seems like a fun way to play those videos back.
a 4K version of this would be pretty damn sweet!
And expensive. Sorry to reply to 4 year old comment, I couldn't help myself.
@@alkestos That's what makes the internet amazing, no need to feel sorry
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.
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?
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!
Yes, yes... My wallet has become noticeably lighter, thanks to Technomoan! (Awaiting my Superscope CD Recorder at the moment!)
it's got a HDMI port. I MUST play DOOM on it, no exceptions.
i know i just wanna hook a video card up to it an see what it can do
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.
link to doom vid
Shadow Giratina's Evil Clone same
Pr0n...
It needs a picture or video of an eyeball.
was thinking that too and LOTR fanboys would love it lol
@General Malaise LMAO
👁️
2 eyeballs could make anything look alive... A wall with eyes?
I was coming here to say the same thing
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。」
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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."
結月うまる so des ne
I love Japanese innovation. :)
結月うまる hi from America!
nice
Is there also a flat version for flat earthers?
Yea, its called a flat screen. ; )
seriouis potatobot 😂😂😂
Best comment ever
2 people just won at youtube, in the same thread, that's rarer than a Googlewhack!
lol nice
4:50 Stu has always been my favourite planet.
I think he is saying 地球 (chikyuu), but it really does sound like stu.
4:51 _butter_
@@xavier6130 doesn’t sound like butter at all idiot
If you rotate it 90 degrees you can take it out to change positions without unplugging everything...
Came for this.
Nutted for this
I orgasmed once for every letter in this comment, and then shat my pants in pure ecstasy
Espartanica Made me laugh out loud!
Yep.
I'm really impressed with how well the image wraps around without distorting or degrading in quality.
They should have made Saurons eye video, so you can have Palantir in your hands
We've got one for it. It's included in the new videos created by Anders.
Get two projectors and put an eyeball in each one! That should creep out people big time! :-)
@Francois Caron I like the way you think.
And have them in the front room window looking out at night. maybe attach a sensor so it follows movement.
Damn I didnt look at your reply yet we both came up with the same idea.
You could put it in a space helmet to Halloween and have a scary face projected. I think Gakken also makes electronic educational kits.
Hey, who turned out the lights?
Not Equal 😭
That dashcam footage has a classic Dr. Who crystal ball feel to it.
It begs for footage of Auntie Em looking for Dorothy, and then being replaced by the Wicked Witch of the West.
oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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
Doesn't need to be connected to a full computer, just build something like a PI-Zero W into a USB Stick case.
Could you imagine if someone came over to watch TV and you turned this thing on? LOL
Have you tried playing 180° footage on it ?
raxorbin you're a genius!
raxorbin 180*
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.
Anders Enger Jensen Hi! Thanks for helping out our favorite tech channels on youtube with music and vids :D
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IVE NEVER WATCHED THESE TO THE END BEFORE IVE BEEN MISSING SO MUCH MY WHOLE LIFE
*I T ' S V E R Y J A P A N E S E*
I really think so
@@neilhuband995 no wonder it's dark
its chineese tho
When the narrator started, I fully agreed with you.
makes sense
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?
Once its fitted in particular hole/slot, u can't rotate it. See carefully
A video game designed for this would be fun, maybe a custom version of asteroids to start
either Tempest
djmips quake with 360 degree FoV enabled
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...
Marble Ball ))
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.
Planetarium programs like Stellarium could look nice on the Worldeye. Never tried but I think it supports spherical/dome projections.
That was a great video! I especially enjoyed the ending sketch. Very colorful!
I hope someone will take this, make a new fish video and recreate Captain Picard's fish tank
Johnathan Geek great idea! 👍
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. :)
I'd like to see someone tearing one apart and showing how this works!
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.
Hey man! I bought your album. It's very groovy I love the music. Can't wait til the cassette arrives :)
Blender has tools for creating dome projections. Shouldn't be too hard to make it convert a video without any user input.
Joël Ouellette Glad to hear it, your copy should be well under way and soon in your mailbox. :)
Release the GAKKEN!
First
You should try using this with MilkDrop or ProjectM as a music visualiser
you can add cool shit from wallpaper engine with fiah eye wallpapers
I had a Gakken electronics kit, it was super. Fuelled my electronics interests which has never stopped!
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
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
kay486 exactly
D: you are a genuis!
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.
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..
Finally, at long last!!! it's the perfect display to show off my snow globe video collection!
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.
eyeball video for Halloween!
superdupergrover Or perhaps a spooky crystal ball that sparkles or goes cloudy?
YES ! then the fog grows thicker... BAM!! skull pops out and screams.
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.
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
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.
You should try the 360 degree quake mod with this
I want to see a unix terminal running on it distorted to appear correct on the round screen.
A properly-distorted Star Wars title crawl!
Fallout PIP Boy screens or ORIGINAL War of the Worlds
There's a mac program called Cathode which does some of this. apps.apple.com/us/app/cathode/id499233976?mt=12
This is a pretty neat little thing; if you still have it around, there's a TH-cam 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).
might be neat for a Skype setup
add a steampunk case for it!
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)
That something the psychos on twitch would watch
another fake thing for millennials 🙄
You're one of the very few that I open his video randomly and don't skip 1 sec
I like the round remote, and the way it can be attached to the device to keep it from disappearing.
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.
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...
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.
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
I would have liked to see you take it apart and talk about how it is being projected. That is always the fun part.
Love this thing! I've ordered one! Thanks for showing it!
BTW, The audio beeps at the end that sound like old modem noise at 1200baud. Is that an Easter egg waiting to be discovered?
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).
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. :)
Well, saying that we know exactly what needs to be made, it wouldn't be too hard, would it?
I think that a frameserver like Avisynth may be able to distort the video on the fly.
>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.
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.
Professional translator here. I would be happy to help you anytime you get stuck. Love your channel!
Now THIS is an awesome TechMoan video! Good on you!
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 ?!?!?
get a pc and hook it as 2nd monitor
That's nothing
I payed $500 for a used medical monitor from Eizo
Worth every cent, bless the Japanese
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?
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.
Awesome device, what a cool idea. The resolution is what it is but how fun. Great video, thanks.
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
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
Great video and I still love the puppets in the end. Keep m coming!
How cool would this be for Halloween? You could use one as a giant eyeball, as a crystal ball, as a “Jambi”-style floating head...and what a great device for a Christmas-time snow globe!
For those of you who remember Robotech, Gakken made the toys for what became the third part of the origional series which was called the New Generation. The Large Alpha fighter and Cyclone Ride armor were really well done.
*I think a video file of an eyeball looking around and blinking would be creepy. Especially of u had 2 or more of them.*
"It certainly draws the eye"
Given it's shape, there's a pun in there somewhere..
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I really like it. I can imagine a few of these ceiling mounted in my music room playing weird images or just alternating colours.
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.
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
There's a million HDMI-to-whatever adapters though if you wanted analog AV input. It has an HDMI input slot 3:27
Why would you need analog input? And if it did have analog inputs, a higher resolution screen wouldn't do any good.
10p6 wouldn't work properly due to the curvature of the screen
Depends on what you want to do display. So yes it would.
10 lines of resolutions, 6 frames per second? Sweet.
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.
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)
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.
Instead of Roku, i think, its better to connect Chromecast to it - no need to bother about menus and controls.
Kuribo Kutsu underated command
Kuribo Kutsu would it be posible to nake a custom uu for a chromecast
The ultimate skate video format player!
VJ Loops and fractals are ideal for this. Also crystal ball or 3D/VR type perspectives. Great also for ChromaDepth 3D glasses in night clubs, lounges, embedded within tables and other furnishings, funky art night lights, modify the surface with multifinger touch so you can recreate a Tesla ball. Perfect for sci-FI props and developing hemispheric 360 degree games and equilateral video and picture viewing perhaps to show motion tracking outputs. Rif it to a floating waterproof vehicle or a submersible one for use in pools, lakes, aquariums to see how aquatic life react to it. Permission pending O course from aquarium management 😁
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?
Maxwelhse That is an excellent idea! 😎👍
these seem like they would have lots of application in film props/set design, as well as on stage at a concert
I just watched a 4:35min Dr Squatch soap ad before seeing your video. It was entertaining.
This is one of the neater weird gadgets I've seen in a while, I might have to get one of these!
The puppets are my favorite part of these videos! I love puppets (:
i would try a pc output with a planatarium program, like stellarium or celestia. You can change the aspect ratio on that for projections
The brand Gakken reminded me instantly of the educational electronics kit I had in the very late 70's it was the Denshi-Gakken EX150 and had an array of electronic components mounted in green cubes with terminals that interlinked and sat inside a matrix board you could carry around.
Maybe you could have a look for one of those kits? You could make a radio receiver, a Morse code station etc.
It's not HiFi equipment but it is old tech.
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.
Lord of the rings man, do the eye of Sauron (sp)?
Google Earth display.
The puppet sketch actually made me laugh out loud! Genius!
Should've used a video demonstrating the Mandlebrot set. I can imagine how cool that would look.
I actually loled at the puppet part
I was thinking you could use this to create starship view screens for some cheesy 1970s science-fiction movie
That is an intriguing educational toy. Not bad. If there is ever a nostalgia period for CRTs, this design could be used with a flatter plastic/glass projection surface and the LCD projection could simulate a CRT monitor.
I think these may have a future with artists creating their own content. Being able to turn this into a smart screen so one could manipulate 3D objects in a hologram style would be awesome. I saw a large version used at a concert, very trippy.
id definitely try playing video games on it.
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
I'd like to see this sort of projection used for a fake CRT screen.
Thanks for taking the hit!
This seems like it has very cool artistic potential.
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?
T1GWBJAH Still the issue of pinching the image to keep it from bulging though. ;)
There could be a program that converts the output into one suitable for the Worldeye.
I have faith that the Pi community will come out with a version of Raspbian that's specially formatted for this particular screen. :)
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.
Our whole Earth is at a bit of an angle, so it was spontaneously correct at first.
This has huge potential with the right software. Connecting it with the Internet it could be used as live news, weather, etc display.
Twist ending! I love it!
I would love to use this for advertisement infront of business
Bettet than those creepy human cutouts that have a person interacting with the customer.
The solar system clip didn't include Pluto! I see Gakken is part of the Pluto denialism conspiracy...
Or is racism agains Pluto's inhabitants! Free Pluto! The Solar System need Mickey's Dog!
Hey, it's just considered a dwarf planet now. Still a type of "planet" even if not a full and proper regular planet.
Toti-H "pluto is a planet"-Jerry
danyCD17 "It can be a planet again"
Didn't include Eris, Makemake, Sedna, Quaoar, Varuna or Haumea either. If Pluto gets included, surely they should too.
That is actually a pretty cool conversation piece. Could use a bit of an upgrade. Would be nice if there was a real time weather patterns displayed on the Earth projection. So much potential with this. Also, a real video image of the Sun with sunspots and all would be cool as well.
Very cool and interesting device. I would love to have one with a higher resolution that could show a virtual globe like google earth, and maybe display global weather patterns (like windyty) live.