Vuzix has revealed its latest augmented reality headset, the STAR 1200 XL, featuring transparent lenses for overlaying digital graphics on top of the wearer's view of the real world. Billed as see-through eyewear, the STAR 1200 XL offers a Wide Field of View (WFOV) perspective for 35-degree graphics, with each eyepiece running at WVGA 852 x 480 resolution.
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Quantigraphic camera promises HDR eyesight from Father of AR
Augmented reality isn't just a gimmick for Google Glass and Nokia City Lens, but could make industrial work safer and improve visibility for those with partial sight, according to new research. The team at Eyetap, led by "father of AR" Professor Steve Mann, has cooked up a so-called quantigraphic camera for a new WeldCam HDRchitecture (HDRchitecture) helmet that rather than simply mask the bright lighting produced by welding equipment, actually uses HDR photography techniques to pick out the details the wearer most needs to see.
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TTP augmented reality glasses prototype takes on Google Glass
Wearables competition for Google's Glass continues to surface, with a UK-based research team revealing its more discrete take on the head-mounted augmented reality display. The Technology Partnership (TTP) has embedded a micro-projector in one arm of a pair of ostensibly normal-looking glasses, the Guardian reports, beaming an image via a mirror onto a special reflective pattern etched into the lenses and straight into the wearer's eye.
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Google Glass hits the runway for DVF at Fashion Week
Google‘s smart glasses project has hit the catwalk, with designer Diane von Furstenberg sending models backstage and on the runway wearing Google Glass headsets. Intended to “capture the DVF creative process from entirely new perspectives,” the partnership saw models, make-up artists, stylists, and the designer herself don different colors of the Glass wearable in preparation for the New York Fashion Week show. The eventual results will be combined into a short film, but already there’s a preview gallery available.
Sony HMZ-T2 hands-on
Wearable displays have jumped in attention over the past twelve months, with the arrival of Google’s Glass driving interest, but Sony continues to push virtual big-screen entertainment rather than augmented reality. The HMZ-T2 Personal 3D Viewer was a quiet surprise at IFA, replacing last year’s T1 with a more compact, lightweight version using a pair of 720p HD OLED screens to create a virtually vast individual screen. Read on for our hands-on first impressions.
Google Glass team grabs ex-Rdio and Danger engineer
Google has snatched up ex-Rdio software engineer Ian McKellar to bolster its growing Google Glass wearable computing team, as the company readies its first "Explorer Edition" hardware for developers in early 2013. McKellar formerly worked on the API for streaming music service Rdio, but has a history in developing social-integrated browsers and for Danger, supporting the Sidekick smartphone later acquired by Microsoft.
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Wearable Technology startup mc10 grabs Army contract and chats with SlashGear
This afternoon we got the chance to exchange words with mc10 co-founder Ben Schlatka on how the company’s “electronics anywhere” tagline is being made a reality right here and now. Not only are they developing wearable technology for Medical and Industrial projects, they’ve also got consumer technology in the pipeline – and with their new R&D contract that includes Wearable Electronics for the Battlefield with NSRDEC, you’ll see how the modern soldier will soon be benefitting in full from renewable power sources that are as natural to wear as a helmet.
tshirtOS wearable display lets your chest do the talking
Wearable electronics needn't mean Google's Glass headset, it could also be a t-shirt with an integrated display and camera that gets your clothes online. The handiwork of whiskey brand Ballantine's and clothes company CuteCircuit, tshirtOS is a programmable, washable shirt with a built-in screen for displaying messages - whether Twitter updates, Facebook wall posts, or Instagram pictures - and the ability to snap pictures itself and push them directly to your photo stream.
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Saga takes on Siri and Google Now in mobile context
Siri, Google Now and other digital personal assistants have a new rival in the shape of Saga, a mobile app that uses learns from users to provide contextual help, suggestions and more. A free app, currently iPhone-only, Saga pulls in data from Facebook, Twitter and other apps to build an understanding of the individual user, and then crunches that with schedules and preferences to produce suggestions as to nearby restaurants, when would be a good time in the day to run, where friends are (and who users might actually like to hang out with), and other recommendations. However, Saga’s future is most definitely in wearables like Google’s Glass.
Valve’s Gabe Newell talks wearable computing, touch and tongues
When he's not trash-talking Windows 8, Valve's Gabe Newell is pondering next-gen wearable computing interfaces and playing with $70,000 augmented reality headsets, the outspoken exec has revealed. Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference this week, Valve co-founder and ex-Microsoftie Newell presented head-up display lag and issues of input and control for wearables as the next big challenge facing mobile computing, VentureBeat reports.
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Don’t be blind on wearable cameras insists AR genius
The augmented reality researcher at the center of allegations of assault over sporting a wearable computer in public has warned that ubiquitous cameras – and the potential for privacy incidents – are only going to increase. Professor Steve Mann, the father of wearables who claimed McDonald’s staff in Paris assaulted him and damaged his advanced EyeTap headset earlier this month, fired back at criticisms that his constantly-running camera was a provocation to the privacy-minded. ”Ironically the people most frightened of cameras seem to be the ones who are pointing cameras at us (e.g. big multinational organizations)” Mann argues.
McDonald’s denies Steve Mann wearables assault
McDonald’s has denied that staff at a Paris restaurant assaulted “father of augmented reality” Professor Steve Mann, insisting that no damage to the researcher’s Google Glass-style wearable computer was caused. In a new statement provided to SlashGear, McDonald’s says that it has individually interviewed “several staff members” at the Paris restaurant, and “all independently and consistently expressed that their interaction with Dr. Mann was polite and did not involve a physical altercation.”
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