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DARPA to Take Ownership of First iOptik Contact Lenses
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We talked about Innovega’s iOptik contact lenses in the past. The development of the lenses was funded in part by the United States Department of Defense. The company has announced that it has signed a contract this week with DARPA to deliver a fully functional pair of lenses to the… |
April 14th, 2012
Google’s Project Glass Made Real by One Man, Looks Even Dorkier
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Google already has prototypes of their Project Glass headset, but it seems only a select few of their employees have access to it. That’s outrageous! But wait, entitled Internet person, before you make an appeal to change the ending of Google or some other weird 21st century demonstration of barbarism,… |
April 12th, 2012
Google Project Glass Voice-activated Augmented Reality Headset: For a Convenient, Douchebag-Filled Future
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If you think people who rock Bluetooth headsets are funny or annoying, wait til you see Google’s augmented reality project. While Project Glass is currently nothing more than a series of mock-ups and a concept video, we know that Google has the resources – and motivation – to fill our… |
April 5th, 2012
Augmented Reality Ghost Hunt Games Bring the Ghouls to Life
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I’m sure every town or city in the world has their own stories to tell about a certain abandoned house or building in the area that is purportedly haunted. I’m a big baby when it comes to ghosts, so I try to avoid these locations as much as possible.… |
March 27th, 2012
Hasbro Nerf Lazer Tag System Uses iPhone and iPod: No Bazooka Mount for iPad?
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Hasbro will soon launch an augmented reality laser tag blasters for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Sorry Android users, you’ll have to wait a while; Hasbro will release the complementary Android apps after they’re done with the iOS versions. Launching this August, the Nerf Lazer Tag System will make use… |
February 13th, 2012
3D Mirror: Release Your Inner Beast
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People have always had a fascination with the extraordinary: unicorns, fairy tales, dwarves, princesses, and magic mirrors. And somehow, the latter is slowly becoming a reality, although they’re not really magical in that sense.… |
February 1st, 2012
iOptik Dual-Focus Contact Lenses Could Revolutionize Head-Mounted Displays
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These new high-tech contact lenses were developed by the Innovega Technology Manufacturing Lab, and they permit users to focus simultaneously on objects that are close up and far away, which could dramatically improve the ability to use tiny portable displays while still interacting with your real-world surroundings.… |
January 18th, 2012
Contact Lens With LED: You’ve Got Something in Your Eye, Sir.
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It’s one thing to stick an LED in a prosthetic eye, but to place it in a contact lens and then place the lens in your still working eye? Gross. Also not as impressive. But YouTuber/tinkerer/proto-Adam Jensen Ben Krasnow did it nonetheless. For science!… |
December 23rd, 2011
Touchable 3D Display System: Augmented Virtuality
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Gaming devices like the PlayStation EyeToy, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft’s Kinect and the upcoming PS Vita are all presenting ways of bringing virtual characters into real world environments. But a research group at Keio University is working on a more uncanny technology. If they have their way, we’ll soon be able… |
September 19th, 2011
Augmented Reality Mirror on the Wall, Can You Make Me the Fairest of Them All?
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Sometimes, I wake up in the morning feeling like crap and the trip to the bathroom that follows gives rise to even more crappy feelings. A new zit forming at the tip of my nose! A new wrinkle on my forehead or near my eye (even though I’m still in… |
August 24th, 2011
