The new Acura MDX has something like this for its backup camera. The center rear view mirror looks normal, until you put it in reverse. When you do, the left hand side of the mirror becomes the backup camera monitor, with no reflection. The best part is, you can still see a reflection in the right side of the mirror, so you can use it as normal, and you don't have to look down at your dashboard to see the video feed.
Magic mirror: One way mirror with a monitor behind it
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#22People do this with their TVs sometimes, so it doesn't take away from the interior design - http://www.hiddentelevision.com/
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#24How about just sticking an iPad running a custom app behind the mirror, instead of this complicated set up?
They don't make 24" iPads.
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#25Interactivity is one thing, but I'd just like to see a simple motion detector hooked up to the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi, controlling the monitor. It bothers me that this monitor is just on all the time.
Detect motion -> refresh the data and wake up the monitor. Or just wake up the monitor since the data is being refreshed quite frequently already.
Also, I don't have any complaints about code clarity, everything seems straightforward.
Well done!
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#26Very cool, though I'm disappointed that it's not interactive. I agree that touch isn't the right choice for a mirror, but that's not the only option. Adding a camera and a bit of OpenCV code could give you a "light" version of a Kinect interface -- broad gestures or hand signs shouldn't be hard to use to change modes. Or a microphone and some voice recognition. Not sure what the open-source state of the art is like,…
Yeah, fun stuff! I wrote the software for this project a couple of years ago: http://www.sester.net/tell-me-the-truth/
It used a camera and the faceAPI from Seeing Machines to overlay a digital Andy Warhol on the viewer's face, tracking their motions and saying Andy Warhol-like things periodically :-)
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#27The new Acura MDX has something like this for its backup camera. The center rear view mirror looks normal, until you put it in reverse. When you do, the left hand side of the mirror becomes the backup camera monitor, with no reflection. The best part is, you can still see a reflection in the right side of the mirror, so you can use it as normal, and you don't have to look down at your dashboard to see the video feed.
Products like this have existed in aftermarket products for a while:
http://www.amazon.com/VTB44MC-4-3-Inch-Digital-Monitor-Combi...
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#30How about just sticking an iPad running a custom app behind the mirror, instead of this complicated set up?
you probably don't even need a one-way mirror. There exist one-way films you could attach onto an iPad.