Vuzix transparent 'smart glasses' prototype hands-on. Looks like the Vuzix heads-up display glasses we wrote about earlier are still very much a work in progress.
At the CES Vuzix booth, we were able to see a proof of concept of the ultrathin lenses, which displayed a semi-transparent hologram that we were able to capture (quite imperfectly) in the gallery below. The looped video was small but very vivid, partly because the colors have a bit of a neon gleam to them. Besides the prototype, we also got a look at the military and industrial eyepiece, albeit from behind glass. The eyepiece is supposed to be coming out in the third quarter of this year, but according to Vuzix, the consumer glasses are still up to two years away. 'Virtual projection' blends AR and motion tracking technique for remote control screen sharing.
Popar Books make reading more interactive with augmented reality. South Korea's Live Park uses RFID and Kinect to bring your Holodeck fantasies one step nearer. 'Live Park,' World's First 4D Avatar Theme Park, Success in Korea The future of theme parks is here today: 4D avatar technology previously only imagined in movies becomes reality, as new media entertainment company d'strict present the 'Live Park 4D World Tour' at the KINTEX in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. d'strict CEO Choi Eun-seok says, "'Live Park' is d'strict's grand challenge for the world's entertainment market.
" Share ThisShareThis Email Contact Email PDF Version PDF Printer Friendly Version Print 'Live360' Quote start"Last year James Cameron announced plans for an 'Avatar' themed land at Disney's Animal Kingdom ... d'strict have created an interactive 4D avatar theme park that's here today! "Quote end (PRWEB) January 25, 2012 4D Avatar Theme Park a Reality Now The age of the passive theme park attraction has gone. Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic. Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? Day of Glass 2 Video Will Blow Your Mind. Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has unveiled a follow-up YouTube video to its wildly successful "A Day Made of Glass," providing another look into what the future could be like with the growth of glass touchscreen interfaces, from innovative chalkboards and activity tables in classrooms to uses for it in hospitals.
Corning released two versions of "A Day Made of Glass 2" — one with a narrator and another, abbreviated version without commentary — the video follows the life of young Amy and her family as they go through their day using various products made of glass. Amy does classwork on a glass tablet, controls the temperature of the car from the backseat and even attends a field trip at the Redwood Forrest with an interactive signage that brings learning to life. Her teacher also works with students on interactive touchscreen activity tables. Corning expects these activity tables to be rolled out in the near future. "You can expect more from us though," Flaws said. Slick Augmented Reality Demo Works On Any Object Without Special Markers.
Starbucks' augmented reality app gets all lovey dovey. Google AR Glasses coming soon? Back in December last year, there were rumors of Google working on some augmented reality glasses running on Android and today, more information regarding them has surfaced.
The folks over at 9to5Google have reported that according to their tipster who has seen a prototype of the glasses, they resemble the Oakley Thump 2 (pictured above) and will have a front facing camera for gathering information and aiding AR apps. Apparently the glasses will also be able to take pictures, and the prototype even had a flash to aid with photography at night. However it was noted that the camera was extremely small and likely to be capable of only a few megapixels.
The HUD is said to be only for one side, is not transparent; and the glasses won’t have dual-3D configurations like was previously mentioned. The navigation is also said to use head-tilting motions for scrolling and clicking, and is supposedly easy to learn and almost unnoticeable to outside users once perfected. . Surgery on Mars: Headset could let astronauts wield scalpel.
What do you do if you're an injured astronaut and your doctor absolutely refuses to make Mars calls?
Well, the European Space Agency is trying to address that question. The ESA is testing a wearable augmented-reality device that might one day enable astronauts who aren't doctors to perform surgery on ailing colleagues. Astronauts haven't whipped out the scalpels just yet--the device is currently being tested as a tool for ultrasound examinations that let users look patients over and diagnose a medical condition. But the agency said in a recent post to its Web site that "in principle [it] could guide other procedures. " In a nutshell, the device--the Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System, or Camdass--works as follows. The device, according to the ESA, "precisely [combines] computer-generated graphics with the wearer's view.
" The setup is, of course, a little more complicated than that. And uses for the device are not limited to outer space. AR Augmented reality. Amazon Flow strikes low blow to brick and mortar, converts barcode scans to online sales. Flow Powered by Amazon App, Now Available for the iPhone New augmented reality app uses both barcode and image recognition to continuously recognize tens of millions of products in a live camera view PALO ALTO, Calif.
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new iPhone app: Flow Powered by Amazon. Flow is a new augmented reality app that makes it easy to explore and discover tens of millions of products in a real world setting – from books and DVDs to packaged electronics and toys – and offers shoppers interactive product information about the items around them. With Flow, customers simply point their iPhone toward a book, video game, CD, DVD or millions of other products with UPC barcodes. "This is our first step towards integrating product search technology with augmented reality," said Bill Stasior, president of A9.com. Flow Powered by Amazon is available as a free download from the Apple App Store at www.itunes.com/appstore. Disney characters at Times Square. Giving 'The Eye Of Judgment' A Whirl. Sony HMZ-T1 plus TrackIR 5 equals 3D, motion-tracked gaming.