put sound where you want it

[Rakido]

sounds very impressive

Make sound fly overhead, swoop over your audience, or whisper in one person's ear from tens of meters away. Project sound against almost any object to create convincing virtual sources.
......
Provide audio commentary for a specific area near an exhibit, without spreading sound to others nearby, and without headphones or obtrusive 'speaker domes'.

http://www.holosonics.com/




Rakido

[GNEP]

I think it would be useful to blame other people when you fart.

[Gurm]

We've covered this before, I think. Too lazy to do a search. One bad thing is, combine it with tracking cameras and you've got a nonstop barrage of targeted audio advertising. Aimed JUST AT YOU!

*sigh*

Gpar_

[Rakido]

dunno, searched for the site and the name of the company and didn't found anything ....

Yup, that could be a possible downside use, but i prefer to imagine such a thing for example in a cinema getting *real* (meant better than lame thx) sound effects ...

Rakido

[az]

Imagine you hear voices talking to you - and when you turn to shout at them what they just called your mother, no one is there, and people are looking at you making an idiot of yourself. And 20 meters away is a sound projector targeting you with a new, very "in your face" ad.

AZ

[rylan]

Originally posted by Gurm
We've covered this before, I think. Too lazy to do a search. One bad thing is, combine it with tracking cameras and you've got a nonstop barrage of targeted audio advertising. Aimed JUST AT YOU!

*sigh*

Gpar_

Theres already companies interested in doing this, and have some prototypes that they're testing... so you can enjoy walking down the street in a city and get advertisements beamed to a corner while you're waiting for the walk signal.. whee

[Jon P. Inghram]

I'm sure the marketing people will thing it's the greatest thing ever made, at least until people discover that being exposed to high intensity ultrasonics causes hearing loss or something. If these things become popular in public places and people start getting annoyed by them, it's a probably a good thing that anything splattered over the transducer (like eggs ) would disrupt the coherent beam and eliminate the "Advertisment ray" effect.

[Wombat]

Eggs? Hell, I'm going to splatter baseball bats on them.

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by Gurm
We've covered this before, I think. Too lazy to do a search. One bad thing is, combine it with tracking cameras and you've got a nonstop barrage of targeted audio advertising. Aimed JUST AT YOU!

*sigh*

Gpar_

It's Minority Report come to life. I remember this being posted here before as well. I'm going to wear ear blockers and reflective sunglasses everywhere whithin the next two years.

Jammrock

[The PIT]

Shit you mean I'll have to wear ear plugs on my rare visits to town.

[High_Jumbllama]

They do that shit and there's going to be a lot of borken speakers. These things are simply low or some probably not so low-powered sonic guns. Using the right frequency and volume these could really **** a person up. Imagine someone hacking into these.

[rylan]

Yeah, but they probably wouldn't have enough power to do damage... assuming its desngned correctly.
Reminds me of the military technology that uses a focused sonic wave gun to cause intense pain.