Shader Glass
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Shader
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Emulation
Shader Glass is a tool that applies shader effects to the entire screen, sparking discussions on its potential uses for accessibility, emulation, and retro gaming.
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I believe Microsoft already has this built into the OS these days:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools/ac...
Of course shader glass will let you write your own, custom, possibly more-realistic colour blindness simulations, but you don't necessarily need third party tools for that kind of thing these days.
And also, I read it talks to #device capture input (webcam/capture card)#
Can't cheater providers use this to inject colors?
I've tried making similar functionality in Python to add visual effects to the screen, but the only way I found is to use one of the packages which leverage the Screenshot functionality.
But this causes recursion since my app's window will be in the screenshot (unless I put my app on a different monitor or a different area of the monitor). How do they avoid that?
I also wonder how many could be ported to run in the browser for games.
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