My polarised sunglasses have the magical added feature of adblocking.
This is the #AugmentedReality future I need. #AR
@johnlynch Like a poor man's 'They Live' glasses.
@johnlynch Hah! Excellent! Are they all polarised the same way?
@leroy that would require some further investigation... I was just happy to *not* see the ads :)
@johnlynch what gets me about e.g. Google Glass is that the pioneer of wearable computers was strongly anti-ad: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3265
(Also, great hack!)
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Much better than the alternative!
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Why did they put a big black box directly on the sidewalk?
@johnlynch @uliwitness from
past experiences: I smell lawsuits 
@johnlynch makes me wonder what other applications may exist for #DiminishedReality
@johnlynch They Live (1988)
@johnlynch that's amazing!
@johnlynch be prepared to wrestle with a coworker in an alley for a full 5-10 minutes.
@johnlynch adblock glasses are real and we all need them
@johnlynch that may expalain why there seem to be so many empty advertisment things in Paris lately. I am pretty much never outside without my sunglasses when I go there.
@johnlynch remind me to get polarized glasses, too.
@johnlynch @dartigen that’s fucking rad! I would pay for this RL DLC
@johnlynch A real world "They Live".
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We need an EU directive requiring all lighted ad displays to be horizontally polarized.
Then this would work everywhere!
@johnlynch where to buy?
A beautiful combination of electromagnetic theory and aesthetics
@johnlynch @flexion IRL AdBlock. Love my polarised lenses
@johnlynch I remember when the iPhone came out and people thought their display was broken until they realized their sunglasses were polarized the opposite way as the display 
@johnlynch Now we just need the They Live versions
@johnlynch @simon I never noticed how disturbing these panels look when there is nothing on display.
@johnlynch Does this work on landscape displays as well?
Købmagergade, I presume.
@johnlynch They live!
@johnlynch@mastodon.ie I need this now
@johnlynch 
This would be even better if someone would manipulate the displays into showing the word "OBEY" in the polarization that passes the glasses.
@johnlynch I'm here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
@johnlynch that’s a nifty feature 
It would be nice too have AR glasses which use AI to automatically remove all advertisements and supporting structures from street view 
J'ai pareil avec les miennes !!
@johnlynch protect both your eyes and your mental health, great 
Pickle, Reptiloid Ambassador @johnlynch They Live was a weirdly prescient movie.
@johnlynch Imagine getting ublock origin on a pair of glasses. It would use ai image recognition to determine that it is an ad and then block it or replace it with something else. Maybe it could just replace the ads with artwork. Id rather see something other than black boxes all over the place.
@my_actual_brain Imagine walking down the Times Square with those on lol
@johnlynch This is brilliant. They should include this as a feature in advertisements.
@SDZ @johnlynch what advertisement?
@my_actual_brain @johnlynch advertisements for the sunglasses :)
@johnlynch @SDZ sorry, I don’t see any advertisements
@my_actual_brain @johnlynch @SDZ the advertisements you would see if you hadn't already these glasses. They would be directed at persons who don't have these glasses yet.
@johnlynch Kind of like a reverse They Live?
@johnlynch it's not me, then. It's normal not to be able to see on such screens when wearing sunglasses...
Those glasses are themselves polarized to avoid reflection. If their polarization axis isn't the same of that of your sunglasses this happen
@levpetrovitch @johnlynch yes, but since I normally see *any* screen like the one on the third picture when I'm outside, even with brightness over 80%, I've always thought it was me (and this is the reason why I still use a basic phone in 2023). When I first saw those pictures I thought "oh, maybe it's not me, it's because I always wear sunglasses outside".
Then I made a test wearing sunglasses indoor and looking at a screen. And now I know it's really me
@sabrinaweb71
Interesting. Do you get the same results if you rotate the screen by 90 degrees?
@notsoloud @levpetrovitch @johnlynch yes. And with sunglasses indoor I can see the screen, so it's definitely me and the bright light
@sabrinaweb71
Well, it seems you don't have horizontally polarized eyeballs then. That's a shame or good luck for you, depending on how you'd feel about being a scientific sensation 
I suppose your pupils could be a bit less effective at adjusting to light but that's really something you should see a professional about if it bothers you too much.
@notsoloud @levpetrovitch @johnlynch I always hope I find at least one other person with my issue. I can live with it, but it's frustrating to always have to explain
@sabrinaweb71 @levpetrovitch @johnlynch It doesn't matter what the brightness is, if the light from the screen is polarized in the "wrong" direction with respect to your glasses, the screen will appear black.