At one pavilion, a reading of Frederick's correspondence with Voltaire held a throng of rapt listeners, glowing camera phones held aloft as though it were a rock concert.
The Landolt C images utilized in our research, although redundant in overall shape, demonstrate the inherent elements present in single-band imagery and algorithmic fusion (e.g., "glow," camera noise, edge "sharpness"/ blur"/ detail") within a tightly controlled image capture environment.
The stimulus itself, although very simple in form, exhibits the attributes that correspond to each particular type of visible enhancement including elements such as "glow," camera noise, edge "sharpness"/ blur"/ detail," etc., all characteristics that have the potential to influence human perception.
Suddenly, almost every journalist on board is holding a camera aloft, from the crews with their large video cameras, to a host of iPhones glowing like fireflies, their cameras held up in wobbly-vision to gather personal souvenirs and even selfies of this encounter.
In addition to replacing glowing pupils, the camera finds the eyes' focal points and adds a tiny white dot, indicating the direction the pet is looking.
I must have put the whole thing out of my mind, but about a week after my conversation with Freedman I suddenly found myself in the studio, with the red light glowing above the camera, totally unaware that I was being watched by millions of people.
The result is a magical experience, with rays swooping around the camera, glowing sparkles trailing in their wakes.
The show begins in darkness with a spectral figure looming in a black hoodie, the red light of a mini camera glowing on his forehead.
Above him was a ring of 20 high-speed cameras, each glowing an eerie scarlet, capturing images of the reflective globes with an infrared strobe.
"I've been called the most connected human on earth," he says, when we meet at London's Wearable Technology Show in Olympia, an event that feels like a cyborg convention, where mostly middle-aged men wander a room sporting strap-on cameras and glowing wristbands.
