Cybereyes
Here are a modification to the Cyberware given in the SRII, SSC, ST
and SB sourcebooks.
Acknowledgements/Credits
- Aaron Wigley - wigs@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Dennis Sketchley - kidon@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- The Wyrm Ouroboros - aalberdk@ucunix.san.uc.edu
Note:
The cybereye electronic systems can be built into a standard
electronic binocular system. For costs, halve the cost of an
equivalent cyberware system.
Basic Cybereye
This is the standard 20/20 cybereye package, without the neural
interface, and as such, requires a Vision SPU. Up to 0.5 essence of
extras listed below can be added for a package of 0.2 essence.
Essence Cost: 0.15
Rating Cost Notes
1 2,000 nY
2 4,000 nY
3 6,000 nY Trid Quality
4 10,000 nY Trid Quality
Availability: 2/24 hrs
Street Index: .75
Options:
- Thermographic: +3,000 nY +0.20 essence cost
- Low-Light: +3,000 nY +0.20 essence cost
- Ultraviolet: +4,000 nY +0.20 essence cost
- Active Rangefinder: +2,000 nY +0.10 essence cost (Laser rangefinder)
- Ruthenium Coating: +1,000 nY +0.10 essence cost.
This allows the eyes to change colour, or even for the
`shape' of the pupil or iris to appear to alter. The essence
cost does not contribute to a package deal, it is a separate
cost for the controller chip. It is a free action to engage
the system. There is space on the chip for 5 designs (each
design is 1 Mp big, so there is 5 Mp of dedicated memory on
the chip).
- Lens assemblies (optical magnification):
SPU(Vision)
When installed in the User's senseware interface, the
vision coprocessor acts upon raw data from a cybereye, and other
input devices, and gives this information to the brain via neural
interface. Like the SPU(Sound), it acts on programs given either in
DataSofts or Headware memory. This also functions as a display link.
Input can also come from Headware memory, or datajack link.
The rating of the SPU limits the maximum number of programs that
can run concurently on the chip. Up to 4 times rating worth of
programs can operate concurently.
Level Essence Cost Price Features
1 .2 9,000 nY
2 .3 20,000 nY Works in conjuntion
with military systems
(eg smartguns).
[ rated options: beefed up cpu, #mixer channels, ]
[ options: military(smartlinkable), smartcam ]
Camera Program
This program designed to run on a Vision SPU enables still shots
to be taken and stored in headware memory, or downloaded via datajack.
It takes one free action capture an image.
Video Link Program
This program duplicates the image sent to the brain and sends
the copy to a storage device (headware memory or out via datajack).
This can also function as a camera program to obtain still shots
only.
Flare Compensation Program
This program activly scans incoming image data for sudden
contrasts in image intensity, and "smooths" the transition.
Low-Light Program
Effectivly image amplification, this program increases the
contrast between pixels. Some degradation in performance is expected
when used with standard bottom line cybereye units. This program is
not needed when hardware low-light vision systems are provided.
Vision Magnification Program
Passive Rangefinder Program
This neat little program works by varying the vision in and out
of focus, and providing depth information of the crisply focused
image. It has its limitations though - it requires a simple action
at which time all actions using vision are at +4 due to the varying
focus, and it usually requires contrasting and sharp colour edges to
work. It has the advantage of being passive in its measurements.
Rating: 4
Size: 8 Mp
Image Recognition Software (Expert System)
When coupled with an Image-Data database loaded into either headware
memory, or slotted via chipjack, this software package will provide
information about selected images via the display link in the Vision SPU.
While it is processing the information, headware system load delay
increases under the workload, to avoid this, the user is recomended to
install Math and I/O SPU's.
The system can be trained, as long as several images are available
for analysis. It can recognise individuals also.
>>>>>[ This is perfect. I load up Janes_Aircraft_2053,
and when hotdoging, I know at a glance the
capabilities of what is chasing me. ]<<<<<
- Dead Stick
>>>>>[ I'm curious, is `Dead Stick' from your love
life, or your aeronautical prowess? Anyway,
this has another use. Say you need to find
someone in a crowd. You upload the face of who
you are after and scan the sea of faces. While
you are concentraiting on importaint matters,
like keeping your backside in one piece, the
SPU is busy doing your looking. If you find
your target, a nice little crosshair appears on
your sight. ]<<<<<
- Bounty Hunter