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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
Vuzix STAR 1200 Augmented Reality Glasses: Terminator Vision Ready to Go
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I like augmented reality a lot better than 3D, and hopefully these augmented reality capable glasses will become common place pretty soon. Vuzix‘s STAR stands for See-Through-Augmented-Reality and describes these glasses perfectly since they’ve got transparent displays, kind of like the head’s up display you see in some high-end cars.… |
June 6th, 2011
3DS Augmented Reality Tattoo: Forever on His Forearm
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A guy going by the name CBZ decided promptly when he got himself a Nintendo 3DS last week that the first thing he needed to do was to run out and get himself an augmented reality tattoo. I’m kind of amazed that he went through the whole thing, but it’s… |
May 3rd, 2011
Augment Reality T-Shirt: Wearable 3DS AR Card
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This should have been a pre-order bonus for the Nintendo 3DS. In case you didn’t know by now, there’s really nothing on the bundled AR cards that makes them special except for this soon to be iconic graphic printed on them, which means this shirt – and anything else you… |
April 4th, 2011
Nintendo 3DS AR Cards Let You Play With Your Friend’s Junk (NSFW)
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…or anywhere else for that matter, but then it wouldn’t be as fun would it? Here’s a quick primer for those not familiar with the 3DS: to showcase the capabilities of the new handheld, the Nintendo 3DS has a variety of mini-games that are played using 6 augmented reality (AR)… |
March 3rd, 2011
AppToyz Gun Accessory for iPhone: Video Game System Rite of Passage
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Video game systems usually get a barrage of third-party accessories – some of them useful and some of them just plain stupid. Gun-shaped add-ons are a staple of a lot of consoles. So is this the validation that the iPhone and the iPod Touch have been waiting for?… |
January 28th, 2011
