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Vuzix and NEC scoop Google on cloud-connected Smart Glasses

Chris Davies, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Vuzix and NEC BIGLOBE have partnered on cloud-connected Augmented Reality glasses, a wearable display that can identify people and match them with their Facebook and Twitter profiles, in an apparent attempt to get in ahead of Google's HUD Smart Glasses. Based on Vuzix's STAR series of AR video eyewear, which we made fools of ourselves wearing last September, the concept demo uses the headset's integrated camera and a persistent wireless web connection to NEC BIGLOBE's servers, though the potential applications go much further than simply showing you your neighbors latest tweets. Read The Full Story

Bodymetrics PrimeSense 3D Uses Kinect for Body-mapping

Christen McGregor, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

Bodymetrics is showcasing body-mapping technology at CES 2012 this week called PrimeSense 3D. It takes advantage off Microsoft Kinect technology to map users' body size and dimensions. An example of its application is with online shopping through partnered retailers. The software matches a person's measurements exactly with the clothing dimensions. Read The Full Story

Vuzix Smart Glasses add AR display to ordinary-looking specs

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [1]

Vuzix is promising Terminator-style augmented reality head-up displays, without the geeky oversized specs usually associated with the tech, in its new streamlined Smart Glasses. Built around a pair of reasonably ordinary-looking sunglasses, Vuzix's Smart Glasses use some licensed Nokia IP to fit a 1.4mm waveguide lens and a tiny display engine into frames that won't leave you looking like an 70s throwback. Read The Full Story

Sony: We won’t make PSP mistakes with PS Vita

Chris Davies, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [8]

Sony has admitted it made a mistake with how PSP games were handled, dropping the ball when the PS3 arrived, and insists that it will not make the same mistake the the PS Vita. ""In the past we launched PSP and then shifted our attention to PS3 when that came on the horizon, which we now concede was a mistake" Sony worldwide studios president Shuhei Yoshida told the official PlayStation blog, "so with PS Vita we are working on this huge range titles and planning ahead for a constant supply of excellent games." Read The Full Story

Google grabs Clever Sense for Siri-beating local recommendations

Chris Davies, Dec 14th 2011 Discuss [2]

Google's Majel Siri-rival could soon be delivering personalized entertainment suggestions on Android smartphones, with the news that the search giant has acquired AI recommendations service Clever Sense. The software company produces Alfred, an Android and iOS app that promises to curate nearby restaurants and make suggestions it believes fits with the user's tastes, with a combination of artificial intelligence and machine-learning improving results over time. Clever Sense's team will join Google's local services division, though the potential for future Android integration is huge. Read The Full Story

ST1080 head mounted augmented reality display gets priced

Shane McGlaun, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

There are a number of head mounted displays on the market today that try and look like sunglasses and offer you a simulated larger screen for your video watching. We have talked about the offerings from Vuzix in the past with the firm showing off the Wrap 1200VR a couple months back. A new competitor on the market is from a company called Silicon Micro Display (SMD) and the glasses are the ST1080. Read The Full Story

AR-enabled contact lenses tested on rabbits

Shane McGlaun, Nov 22nd 2011 Discuss [6]

Researchers are working on a crazy set of contact lenses that will allow the user to get augmented reality information projected right on their eye. Today we need a smartphone to view augmented reality data, but that might not always be the deal. If these contacts come to pass, there could be a whole new world of augmented reality for a myriad of uses. Read The Full Story

Ford 2012 Escape promoted with augmented reality experience

Chris Burns, Nov 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

When you want to see what a product looks like in the space you live in, on your doorstep, in your yard, or in this case, on the baseball field, you use augmented reality - and that's just what Ford has done in collaboration with the folks at GoldRun to promote their new 2012 Ford Escape. What they did was promote the vehicle with what they so plainly called "the Campain," one in which users were invited to participate in either an L.A. Adventure or a Nationwide hunt. Users on the L.A. Adventure took part in a 3-day scavenger hunt through downtown Los Angeles during Blog World Expo 2011, capturing unique AR objects as they went, secret messages and content included, prizes in the wings! Read The Full Story

NEC TeleScouter offers wearable AR with Borg style

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

NEC has launched a wearable computer, the NEC TeleScouter, intended to allow fieldworkers to consult a virtual 16-inch transparent display projected in front of them while they go about their business. Consisting of a Brother AirScouter wearable display and a compact 500MHz ARM-based computer packing WiFi a/b/g and Bluetooth, the system currently targets industrial augmented reality (AR) applications, but NEC sees the future being far broader. Read The Full Story

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Qualcomm DVD augmented reality hands-on [Video]

Chris Davies, Sep 15th 2011 Discuss [3]

Qualcomm’s pretty keen on its “Digital 6th Sense” idea, and having played with the company’s latest DVD augmented reality app we’re starting to see why. Capable of recognizing DVD covers and overlaying live streams of preview clips on top of them on your smartphone’s display, the app isn’t just AR for the sake of it but an example of how modern chipsets like Snapdragon are capable of some seriously impressive real-time crunching. Check out our hands-on after the cut.

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Qualcomm demos Digital 6th Sense [Video]

Chris Davies, Sep 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

Qualcomm has outlined its expectations for a “Digital 6th Sense” – the integration of augmented reality technologies that aren’t just marketing gimmicks but which streamline the way we interact with devices and content. CEO Paul Jacobs demonstrated two implementations at IQ2011 this morning, first a DVD/Blu-ray preview system that can display multiple trailer streams based on which DVD cases your smartphone camera is pointed at, and then a gesture-based interface that turns a handset’s microphone into an ultrasound sensor. It’s what Jacobs describes as the company’s vision of “the internet of everything.”

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Vuzix STAR 1200 augmented reality headset hands-on [Video]

Chris Davies, Sep 1st 2011 Discuss [3]

Vuzix has demonstrated its latest augmented reality (AR) glasses for the first time, the Vuzix STAR 1200 (See-Through Augmented Reality), intended to drive development of personal head-up displays. Shown to SlashGear at ShowStoppers during IFA 2011 today, the STAR headset is a development of the WRAP 920AR we tested all the way back at CES 2010; however, the STAR system uses a pair of transparent 852 x 480 displays that allow you to see the real world with computer graphics overlaid on top.