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Texas Instruments’ OMAP 5 may bring Minority Report UI to Reality

, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Soon, we may see the kind of interactive screen that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report, thanks to Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments is combining its new OMAP 5 platform with its DLP pico projectors and a camera. This would add hardware support for stereoscopic 3D, and would support full body gesturing, so that the user can touch, drag and drop projected images onto any surface. Read The Full Story

Quantum 3D upgrades sweet ExpeditionDI infantry training platform

, Nov 29th 2010 Discuss [0]

When it comes to training infantry soldiers in the US military there are all sorts of drills and programs that the warriors go through. One of the coolest is the 3D virtual reality system from Quantum3D that may be the coolest and most realistic shooter in the world. The company has announced that it has updated the training system called ExpeditionDI with new hardware. Read The Full Story

iPhone Conrolled Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter Gets Augmented Reality Chase Game for iOS

, Nov 21st 2010 Discuss [3]

This game is called AR.Pursuit and it'll make controlling your flying machine all the more fantastic with augmented reality - available at the end of November in the Apple App Store. It's a two-player game where you control your AR.Drone VS a friend's, blasting away at them with missiles and machine guns, playing cat and dog in a real world / virtual reality world simulation. It's so weird! It's so wild! It looks like so much fun! Read The Full Story

Namco Bandai and Nissan Team Up to Create Futuristic Yokohama City in Virtual Reality

, Sep 30th 2010 Discuss [2]

Virtual Reality (VR) was all the rage several years ago. In arcades all over the world (where you could find them), there were rigs set up to showcase a digital world, where the player was fully submerged. A part of the game, and not just playing it. And while it may have quieted down over the years, it looks like Nissan and Namco Bandai have found a way to make it useful again. Both companies have announced today that they plan on creating a driving simulation that uses advanced VR technology, with a Smart Grid, to provide an in-depth driving experience second to none. Read The Full Story

Immersive next-gen gaming system merges virtual and real world

, Dec 23rd 2009 Discuss [1]

For those of you out there who’ve gotten tired of Wii-style gameplay, not to mention mice and keyboards, this new-fangled immersive multiplayer gaming system created by a team of game designers of the National University of Singapore will be bound to shock your world, virtual, real, or augmented. Read The Full Story

DIY Virtual Reality headset is bizarre genius [Video]

, Oct 27th 2009 Discuss [0]

I think it's fair to say that if you make one of these DIY virtual reality headsets, your kids will definitely be the coolest in the playground.  The handiwork of Recombu's Andrew Lim, the cardboard headset takes advantage of an accelerometer-packing HTC Magic, an old pair of lab goggles and some boyish enthusiasm to create a head-tracking view of the world. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Sony EyePet gets new screenshots, video demo

, Jun 4th 2009 Discuss [0]

Anybody who has physically brought a live monkey into their home will know that it can be one of the more fraught experiences.  Happily Sony's EyePet game is still on track to make that monkey virtual; the company may not have made much mention of it in their E3 keynote, but a new video demo and screenshots confirm that it's still on course to be one of the PS3's most unusual titles. Sony EyePet video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Lenovo ThinkStation D20 & S20, plus eLounge virtual store launch

, Mar 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

Lenovo have announced a pair of new workstations, the Lenovo ThinkStation D20 and S20, intended for CAD and digital content creation.  The blocky towers are fitted with Intel Xeon 5500 and W3500 series processors with optional Turbo Boost, together with NVIDIA Quadro or ATI FirePro graphics.  Buyers can also specify the NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU platform.   Read The Full Story

Vuzix ships widescreen iWear AV310

, Feb 19th 2009 Discuss [0]

Vuzix has today announced an immediate shipping of its Vuzix iWear, AV310, a personal video eyewear that’s virtually wielding a giant 52-inch large screen display over your head, from any video sources on-the-go. The new AV310 claims World’s first virtual reality eyewear with widescreen aspect ratio, and is a better-equipped unit compares to the AC230 XL we reviewed last month. Read The Full Story
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