[HN Gopher] I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in...
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I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17
Author : cocacola1
Score : 178 points
Date : 2023-09-08 02:26 UTC (1 days ago)
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| hsishish wrote:
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| joshu wrote:
| i set this up a while ago. it was less disruptive at the partner
| meeting than i was hoping.
| https://x.com/joshu/status/1601032221703294976?s=46&t=KQjkyI...
| mr_o47 wrote:
| Amazing Article
|
| Really enjoyed reading the post.
| Almondsetat wrote:
| Apple implemented a standard so most stuff that follows the
| standard now works. Nice but.... uninspiring?
| MrLeap wrote:
| Interesting take.
|
| If somebody chiseled a tree stump into a recognizable likeness
| of your face, would you dismiss it as derivative? Your face has
| been done before, stumps are EVERYWHERE. Chisels and hammers
| are _LEGACY TECH_. Sometimes things are interesting because
| they're creative, not because they're on the bleeding edge of
| technical complexity.
| echelon wrote:
| Game Boy Camera has been used as a webcam before. There's an
| entire enthusiast community around it, and it was especially
| popular during the pandemic.
|
| I think OP was groaning at the Apple blog self-congratulating
| the platform. Most of the points were about the iPad, and
| Apple products were mentioned 71 times (in almost every
| sentence).
| smrq wrote:
| Honestly, if this sold me on any product, it's the Analogue
| Pocket. None of the iOS stuff seemed particularly inspiring
| or inspired, but that's one piece of hardware I didn't know
| I needed in my life.
| crazygringo wrote:
| That's hilarious.
|
| And now it irrationally makes me desperate for a software video
| filter to reproduce the effect with my regular webcam -- green
| tones and 4-level grayscale and Bayer matrix dithering and
| everything...
| qup wrote:
| Something tells me there's a linux one-liner for this
| tenebrisalietum wrote:
| Ok, so now there's got to be a way to get the Game Boy printer
| working too.
| ClassyJacket wrote:
| Amazing. Best thing I've read all week. I'm as amazed as the
| writer that that gesture recognition worked. Side note: now I
| want that white Analogue Pocket.
| dfex wrote:
| On behalf of retro geeks everywhere, thank you for your service!
| Love your work!
|
| "None of this makes sense, and no regular person will ever need
| to use this"
|
| Fortunately, this is not a site for Regular People(tm)
|
| Someone should make a fil... oh wait:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bufolab.ca...
| ClassyJacket wrote:
| :/ Not compatible with S23 Ultra... weird.
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| Sounds like Android. Anything interesting has weird
| compatibility quirks.
| DANmode wrote:
| Especially Samsung-Android.
|
| Hardware that runs AOSP and closer variants are much more
| interesting, way less undocumented kernel hackery.
| wlesieutre wrote:
| For the iOS folks, Iconfactory's BitCam
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| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitcam/id1114990619
|
| Not gameboy exactly, but in a similar spirit
| notRobot wrote:
| An online tool with such filters exists here:
| http://patorjk.com/old-school-gaming-filters/
|
| Includes Gameboy camera, as well as a few other retro filters.
| waltbosz wrote:
| About 20 years ago, I had a similar idea for a Game Boy camera
| webcam, but I never finished it. My plan was to put my Game Boy
| camera into my Super Game Boy, and then hook my SNES to my PC's
| video capture card.
|
| Nice to see someone actually did it with modern tech.
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