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Comment on Ask HN: If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do?

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Custom reality tv. Users pay to see a day/hour in the life of another user - possibly a celebrity, though other fun people would be popular - who wears a tasteful camera strapped to their head or neck.

Witness an afternoon as Michael Schumacher. What's life like as an Oxford student? My name is Joe and tomorrow I will go free running in the city - join me.

Demand Media is prob the answer. If there's enough interest for custom reality TV, DM will pay ppl to make these videos.

psst: justin.tv

Justin used to run around with a helmet camera and a laptop+ 4 bonded wireless modems in his backpack.

Madness! I guess my "idea" depends more on engineering advancements then. When I wrote the parent I'd just finished watching a series of the excellent Peep Show (filmed mostly via helmet cam), and I was thinking how I'd like to be able to jump into anyone's head and observe their life in that way.

Being John Malkovich?

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