Jed's Upgrade: Merging Visual and Audio Feeds in the Brain
This blog outlines the story of Jed, a vet in 2089 who lost 90% of his vision. He is offered an upgrade to his implant, which merges visual and audio feeds in the brain. Find out how this new technology helps Jed to "hallucinate" reality.
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Story outline: Jed is a vet in 2089 who lost 90% of vision. Directly injecting video into optic nerve is still low quality. Alternative is to marry visual feed in brain with tagged weighted data from external wearable camera, and the mind "hallucinates" reality. -
Jed has had an early implant for 10 years and needs replacement. New implant+external device is improved, additionally merged sound from ears into vision, like police sirens from behind casting police lights onto walls. Shock proof water proof. Jed gets the upgrade.
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Jed leaves, world exists in stunning clarity. It feels like he can drive but can't. Walking is fine though. Goes to take a shower, despite not needing to take off vision wearable from magnetic temple mounts does anyway, puts it on bench of shower.
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World transforms into waterfalls -
Vision module is facing a blank wall so without visual detail of camera giving effective input, only his impaired vision + sound are generating his visual field.
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Jed goes to lather up shampoo, cleans head in a scenic rainforest paradise. It is a dream made completely real. -
Jed moves his soapy hands over his ears, the chaos of bubbles bubbling and merging an infinite indecipherable noise.
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The rainforest disappears. Jed is back in Tibadah Valley, his squad fanning out into a courtyard, immediately set upon by rifle fire from every window. -
Jed screams, and lacking the expected positional data of being on his head, the wearable unit calculates it is not his own voice. His squad is screaming as they die around him. Pulling his arms down across his ears, again chaos. An RPG explodes near him, sending him into the air.
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In reality Jed is still in his shower, reacting to a world his mind is hallucinating under the direction of the implant absent strong visual data. He jumps in disorientation, head slamming into the shower bench's hard ledge, spraying blood. This soaks the module's camera in red.
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Jed is in a nightmare, the shower's rain endless in noise as it hits his bleeding head.
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The gunfire continues, his screams echo into the mouths of his squad mates, the blood on the module reflected into his world as they all bleed-out in combat.
As Jed bleeds out in the shower. -
The end.
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Sorry this should have had a content warning.
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Jed gets device tested by coders under positive conditions (water proof, visual data) that immediately breaks under negative conditions they did not anticipate (removed in shower despite water proof, lacking visual anchoring, sound is almost sole input, intense negative memories)
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Anyway the point is programmers suck ass
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